Sanctum Care Group's vision is for a community in which individuals requiring this assistance are able to attain their optimum level of health from their perspective, minimizing their vulnerability and maximizing their control and dignity. Sanctum recognizes the need to provide care with humility and without prejudice.
The team started by opening Sanctum in 2015, Saskatchewan’s first hospice with respite and supportive care for people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS.
In 2018,
Sanctum 1.5 opened in a 10-bed prenatal care home, which supports high-risk and HIV-positive pregnant women at risk of having their infants apprehended at birth. Incorporating existing community services in Sanctum’s safe and supportive environment, the prenatal home works preventively to meet the health and social needs of these women more effectively and efficiently, which will improve the health and well-being of mom and baby while also mitigating the risks associated with apprehensions of infants at birth.
Sanctum Programs:
This is achieved through a philosophy of holistic care and demonstration of Sanctum’s core values of compassion, collaboration and innovation.
Sanctum Care Group Is A Trusted Saskatoon Non -Profit
Sanctum Survivor ChallengeThe signature fundraising event for Sanctum Care Group. Every year, community leaders live as if homeless for 36 hours on the streets of Saskatoon. In teams of two, Sanctum Survivor participants are given tasks to complete. Each task will aim to demonstrate particular challenges that society is often unaware of but which are an everyday reality for those who are homeless with HIV. Participants wear donated clothes and shoes. They are not allowed any personal belongings other than a phone (to update the public on their journey). The event itself is both powerful and unprecedented. It attempts to shed light on the intense hardship faced by people who experience poverty, homelessness and chronic illness here in Saskatoon.