School Video project “Embracing Life” seeks to engage schools and the wider community to raise awareness about palliative care and death and dying.
As a Health Service providing specialist palliative care, Calvary Health Care Bethlehem works to support community capacity & resilience in dealing with life limiting illness, death, dying and bereavement.
In support of this, we launched the palliative care video “Embracing Life” to encourage conversations about death and dying with students and community groups. The video follows the experience of a group of students from Sacred Heart Girl’s College in Oakleigh who spent time at the hospital with patients, staff and volunteers.
The documentary examines how the project changed the student’s views of palliative care, giving them a greater appreciation of life, and increasing their confidence to have conversations about death.