Virtual Volunteer Lounge
Greetings from Unity Health Toronto and welcome to the virtual volunteer lounge! We have created this online space to keep our absent volunteers engaged and informed. Please explore and check back for new content!
COVID-19 Updates from Unity Health
Get the latest COVID-19 information for the three Unity Health sites, including visitor guidelines and the current state of COVID cases.
See a list of health-related supports available through the City of Toronto – a list of community resources for everyone to access during this time.
National Volunteer Week
April 18 – 24, 2021
It has been a long year and volunteers have been missed across Unity Health Toronto. We hope you have been safe and staying well. Thank you for joining us in celebrating National Volunteer Week!
- Welcome Video from your Volunteer Services Team
2. Gratitude Video Vanessa Nicholas-Schmidt, Manager, Mission & Values
- Volunteer Week ZOOM Update
- View a short presentation of updates from Unity Health.
- Unity Health Magazine
- Browse a copy of our first ever Unity Health Magazine
Keeping in touch
We know that we miss you, and we hope that you miss us too! Here are a few additional ways to stay connected to us while you are not here.
Send a note of encouragement and support to our staff
Click on the link above to send a kindness card! They will be printed and forwarded to the staff, unit or team you wish to recognize. (To fill out card, open using Internet Explorer, or download card and open with Adobe Acrobat Reader.)
- For St. Joseph’s and Providence– a tribute from your therapy dogs who miss you too!
- Stay informed by watching the St. Michael’s Foundation Facts from the Frontlines video series on YouTube
- Follow developing COVID-19 stories from the Providence Healthcare Foundation
- Keep up with developments at St. Joseph’s via their Foundation Instagram
Join us in keeping our staff and patients in your prayers
In our Mission Statement, one of the things Unity Health commits to is providing compassion spiritual care to all in need. And we recognize that during this extraordinary time that ‘those in need’ would include our staff and physicians.
And so, members of the Unity Health Spiritual Care team are devoting one minute daily (at 12 noon) in silent prayer for everyone at Unity Health for the duration of this pandemic. We invite all of our Unity Health community, including our absent volunteers, to join us, in their own faith tradition or in whatever way they may find comfortable.
Sample language:
We pray for all victims of the coronavirus, their loved ones, and all health care workers and first responders tasked with the treatment and care of those who are ill.
You who are Comfort, be with all those who are ill, afraid, or in isolation.
In their loneliness, be their consolation.
In their anxiety, be their hope.
In their darkness, be their light.
Fill our hearts with Compassion that we might care for ourselves and for others in ways that bring goodness and connection in the midst of distance.
Grant your wisdom and grace in each moment. [Amen]
Follow us on social media:
- Instagram – (follow the #WeAreReady Instagram campaign for behind the scenes stories of our COVID-19 readiness)
- YouTube
Last updated May 04, 2021