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Community focus areas

We invest donations and volunteer hours to deliver community outcomes into four areas:

1) Families, children, and youth have opportunities  to reach their full potential

Mentoring programs, child and/or family support programs, programs for disadvantaged or at-risk children and youth, alternative education programs

2) People have access to resources that help meet immediate and basic needs

 Crisis accommodation/emergency housing, rent assistance, drug and/or alcohol rehabilitation programs, telephone counselling

3) All people have the opportunity to become as self sufficient as possible

 Services for people with a physical or intellectual disability, programs for deaf/hearing impaired, vocational training programs, services for people with degenerative diseases

4) Our aging family, friends, and neighbours enjoy physical, emotional, and mental well-being

Aged care services, geriatric rehabilitation, palliative care, services to dementia sufferers & carers