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Our Leadership Team

We are an experienced group of professionals who have a wealth of experience in leadership development, program management and in creating innovative responses to complex situations. We utilize our extensive skill set in building high performance teams to provide overall organization leadership to our Coordinators and Workers. We think strategically within the context of our Social Enterprise model about the management of resources and consistently adopt flexible, innovative and effective solutions to meet the needs of our partners as they support the clients they serve. We are driven by the belief that everyone with a disability deserves the opportunity to live with respect and dignity in environments that are caring, challenging and promote life-long growth and development.

 
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Our Community Support Workers

Residential and Community Workers are skilled in providing life and social skills programming, interpersonal communication and the implementation of behaviour management strategies. Our Residential and Community Workers typically have a certificate, diploma or degree related to the field of social services along with additional training that equips them to optimize the personal and social development of those individuals they provide support.

A Residential and Community Worker uses shared life-space opportunities to meet the physical, social and emotional needs of clients. Residential and Community Work work uses strengths-based, needs-led approaches to mediate clients’ presenting problems. A Residential and Community Work practitioner will typically work in a direct person-to-person capacity with clients. He or she will seek to provide a supportive, stable environment in which various social, educational and relationship interventions can take place in the day-to-day living space of the client.

Each of our Residential and Community Workers are committed professionals with considerable skill in working with individuals with complex special needs. Each individual comes to us with the following:

  • A related university degree or college certificate/diploma

  • Expertise in behavioural, life skills and social skills programming

  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills

  • Extensive related experience

  • A vulnerable sector screening