These are the goals and objectives established by this committee:
Objectives:
1. a) To review mission statements and core values to ensure that they are congruent/complementary with the provincial statement of mission and values.
b) To conduct educational programs designed to assist board members and senior administrators to understand the importance of mission integration and to support it at both agency and regional levels.
2. To identify strategies that can be used by member agencies to educate staff about their mission and core values.
3. To hold a workshop for Mission personnel in our facilities.
Mission
and Pastoral Care
There is a tendency to see Mission and Pastoral Care as a single unit
because distinctions have not been clearly defined. There is an overlap
as both work closely together but not as a unit. Consequently, time
was given to identify differentiations as follows:
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Mission
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Pastoral
Care
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Encompasses the total facility environment, ie, patients, residents,
staff, surroundings, community
~ Should drive recruitment, hiring policies, performance appraisals, follow-up on attitudes and behaviours, information sharing, etc. ~ Everyone in the facility needs to own and share the responsibility of Mission to achieve its effectiveness, although there are Mission Teams to ensure strong support. ~ Mission Integration requires ongoing affirmation and encouragement to all from top down and vice versa. ~ Mission is organizational, transformational and renewal. ~ Mission Integration is very broad - - it entails a process to include education, recruitment screening, hiring, orientation, follow-up of behaviours which flow from attitudes. ~ Mission statements must be well defined so that values and spirituality can be clearly understood and appreciated. ~ Defined role required to understand distinction. |
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Focuses specifically on clients and care to meet their spiritual
needs.
~ Their strong desire is to assist clients to grow in awareness of their spirituality. ~ There are specialized, trained personnel assigned to carry out this service, such as chaplains, pastoral care workers, etc. ~ It is a service, a discipline and like all disciplines, it supports Mission. ~ Deals with the immediate. ~ Pastoral Care workers require special skills and knowledge to reach out, to comfort, to support, particularly with the dying and their families. ~ Defined role required to understand distinction. |
Catholic Identity What makes us different?
There is a need for public expression to demonstrate what makes facilities Catholic. Discussion identified that work as:
~ guided by Gospel values
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a relationship with the Catholic Church, ie, the sacraments, ethical
guidelines, official teachings
These are all elements which promote identity and make us different.