The Community Living Team

Build Community. Grow Hope. Support change.
Powerful words, words that each of us as seedlings has come to know and understand through our Strategic Plan. But now comes another word. Implementation; how do we, on behalf of an agency we believe in and a people and community we love take these words and turn them into action?

One of the many ways is through the development of the Community Living Team. This team works closely with the Resident Advisors in our various housing units, the residents of each unit, Aftercare, volunteers and most importantly the local community to develop relationships of membership, belonging and reciprocal involvement. Our mission statement is: To reflect God’s love while being the link between our housed guests and their communities and to develop and sustain reciprocal and sustainable relationships between the two.

Now, how do we do that? Excellent question! Host events that bring the community into the buildings. Build relationships with the various members of each community through involvement and volunteerism (i.e. Snow Angels, garbage clean up day), through support and capacity building, through membership and belonging.

We are a community, we are learning what this means and how to ensure that not only do our residents belongs, but they are members. Each has something to give, something to share, something that will enhance the world around them; our blessing is to be part of walking with them to this wonderful learning.