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.