Community Opportunities
Winnifred Stewart's Community Opportunities program encourages individuals to discover and pursue activities that are meaningful to them. A fundamental part of Winnifred Stewart, Community Opportunities is a community based program where individuals are supported to pursue their employment, volunteer or recreational interests on a full or part-time basis.
Through the Community Opportunities program, individuals are supported to find meaningful and rewarding employment and/or volunteer positions. WS staff assist people to create resumes and prepare for job interviews, as well as providing support at their place of work/ volunteer site if necessary.
Based on their interests, people receiving service from the Community Opportunities program take part in music therapy, reading clubs, baking, cooking classes, scrap-booking, arts and crafts, computers, and various modes of physical activity, including learning yoga, all within their local community.
Through the assistance of Community Opportunities, individuals take full advantage of events in the Edmonton area, including festivals, trade-shows, sporting events, arts and crafts classes and shows, gymnastics, museums, and much more.
The Community Opportunities team continues to play an important role in discovering interesting opportunities and unique experiences that enable participants to discover or match their talents, interests, hobbies, and their ideal places to participate in the community.
Person-Centered Planning
Person-Centered Planning is a self-determining, empowering resource for the individuals supported by Winnifred Stewart. It is a life planning model that brings together the friends and family of individuals and the staff at Winnifred Stewart to help individuals discover their dreams and make plans to achieve them. Person-Centered Planning is an integral component of the Community Opportunities Program. We believe every individual has the ability and the right to be part of the community in which they live, and we are dedicated to ensuring that all individuals have access to opportunity.
The Community Opportunities Program provides individualized, community-based services that facilitate opportunities for individuals to have the following:
Full lives as integral, respected members living, and participating in the communities of their choice, based on their hopes, gifts, skills, and interests.
Rich relationships with friends and family.
Choices in how they live their lives and where they live.
Meaningful employment, volunteering or socially inclusive leisure opportunities.
It is based on the belief that the individual's dream is the driving force in her life and that her circle of committed family, friends, community members, and support staff will help her to fulfill this dream.
In addition, Community Pathways facilitates a self-advocacy movement, providing individuals with the confidence and tools they need in order to give their collective group a strong voice as they develop their own abilities and fulfill their individual dreams.
For more information on Community Opportunities, contact 780-453-6707 or email us.
