Our Mission

All funding is provided by the Jocelyn Hutton Foundation. Please visit their page on CanadaHelps.org or our website at www.jocelynhouse.ca if you wish to donate.

Our mission is to provide community leadership and advocacy, ensuring that the unique model of community-based palliative care offered at Jocelyn House will remain a viable and affordable option in the future, both for individuals who are living with terminal illness and for the families that support them. We believe there is comfort and relief for the dying when they know that the people they care about most are included in the nurturing arms of the Jocelyn House family. We will all face the transition of death, with our loved ones and ourselves. Quality care at the end of life is not a luxury; it is an important and necessary community effort.

Helping others choose the right to die in the midst of a caring community affirms each person’s right for quality care at every stage of life. Jocelyn House needs your financial support to continue to make this choice available.

About JOCELYN HOUSE HOSPICE

Jocelyn Hutton was a young woman who grew up in Winnipeg. While attending High School her life took an unexpected turn, she developed cancer at the age of 17. Jocelyn began to share with others that death was not to be feared. Jocelyn’s desire was to live each day fully and to die supported by family, friends and her community. Surrounded by the love that gave her courage, she was the inspiration for the establishment of western Canada’s first freestanding hospice. After her death, Jocelyn’s parents, Bill and Miriam Hutton founded Jocelyn House in 1985 with the desire that their family home be used as a hospice. There is no life span to the spirit of hope — each day Jocelyn’s dream comes true for terminally-ill people unable to be at home and not wishing to be in a hospital setting. At Jocelyn House there is an opportunity to live inside the dream.