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Special Projects - Compassion Campaign

 

Creative writing campaign  Open to: Forward House client partners Students – pre-school through university District 69 community members Global community  Material: Material will be selected for publication on our web site and a future print volume by a panel of our client-, board-, volunteer- and staff- partners, whose decision is final. All submissions must be original and adhere to the short story campaign guidelines  All submissions must be accompanied by signed release and sent to the mailing or email address below.

Song writing campaign (MP3 format) Open to: Global community  Material: Material will be selected for publication on our web site and a future print volume by a panel of our client-, board-, volunteer- and staff- partners, whose decision is final. All submissions must be original. All submissions must be accompanied by signed release and sent to the mailing or email address below.

Education presentations/modules Open to: Forward House client partners

Compassion Ambassadors  Open to: District 69 community members Global community Timeline: ongoing Our ambassadors are issued identification and a supply  of ‘compassion in action’ buttons. Buttons are to be awarded to any person demonstrating compassion for person, animal or planet in ordinary daily living situations, thus passing the initiative forward. The intention is to help us all look for the good in others and to show our gratitude, furthermore to promote compassion for ALL living beings. Ambassadors bring us the stories of their activities to be published on our web site and any future print volume. They are submitted to our mailing or email address below.

Objective

Forward House has always held as its primary objective the recovery of individual self esteem and abilities toward healthy autonomy and community inclusion.

This is accomplished by creating opportunities to alter entrenched patterns of belief and behaviour that diminish the self or others.

As social beings, it is in our genetic and psychological make-up to satisfy our needs through relationships with others. (Glasser, Choice Theory, 1998). Therefore, we direct our energy and resources to help our people reconnect positively with themselves and, subsequently, with those around them.  We  strive every day to mitigate the limitations attendant to self-stigma. We strive every day to build empathy instead, and this goal predicates our compassion campaign.

With the formation of the national Mental Health Commission, we solidified our efforts.   

Got a good story/song about empathy? Make the world a brighter place and share by sending it to the  address below.

Please read waiver. Your submission indicates you have read, understood and agreed to the terms therein.

FULL CREDIT IS GIVEN TO SUCCESSFUL SUBMISSIONS

 

   

Annual Humanitarian Award for Youth Awarded to a young person who demonstrates understanding of the importance of our working together for a healthy community and acts with empathy for others. We work with the schools in our area with this part of the campaign.