Home support program

The Home Support Program is a fund that benefits families and individuals dealing with particular hardships or a situational crisis. It provides temporary financial assistance to help its recipients continue their treatments or access psychosocial support.

Here are a few examples of financial assistance granted in the past year thanks to the contribution of the Gatineau Health Foundation:

1. Financial assistance allowed a low-income single mother with a child with behavioural difficulties to pay for babysitters, granting her some much-needed moments of respite;

2. The Program paid registration fees to allow young people living with difficulties to participate in Projet Catamaran. a program focussed on socialization activities and providing youths with enriching experiences, strengthening their social skills and enabling them to create positive relationships, while also providing the family with a moment of respite.

3. Compression stockings were purchased for a lowincome patient with severe diabetes who has had a leg amputation and is at risk of having his second leg amputated if preventive measures are not taken;

4. Lodging expenses were reimbursed for a couple with few financial resources living in the Haute-Gatineau region. The husband, whose serious brain cancer has left him with a limited autonomy, must be accompanied by his wife five days a week to undergo chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments for a period of one month. The trips to and from the Gatineau Hospital’s Cancer Centre are exhausting for the couple and result in high transportation costs.

5. Purchasing basic equipment to furnish a residence for a couple living below the poverty line. The couple had lost all their belongings as a result of the major flooding that occurred in 2018. The couple’s precarious situation forced them to relocate to an unsanitary, pest-ridden living environment. With support from the CISSS de l’Outaouais and funding from the Foundation, they were finally able to find a healthy living environment.

6. Purchasing a manual wheelchair for a low-income user at high risk of falling.