What would you like to know about Community Living Kawartha Lakes?
Who We Serve
Community Living Kawartha Lakes is a charitable, not-for-profit organization. We provide a wide range of supports to people with intellectual challenges and their families. Our work is far reaching - beyond the City of Kawartha Lakes, some of our services also extend to the Counties of Peterborough, Haliburton and Northumberland.
In the past year alone we supported over 750 individuals and their families.
Mission
Community Living Kawartha Lakes exists so that people with intellectual challenges and their families can achieve their personal goals and participate in the development of healthy, inclusive communities.
Vision
Community Living Kawartha Lakes works so that:
Individuals:
- The people that we support (all ages) and their families live their lives in ways that are meaningful to them.
- People will have their basic human needs met.
- Experience lives which have purpose and meaning.
- Form and sustain friendships.
- Exercise choice in how they live their lives.
- Make a contribution to the community.
- Are included in community activities.
- Have supports that promote their learning, ability & participation in community life.
- Exercise their rights and responsibilities as citizens.
Community Support Systems:
- Community support systems work for people.
The Community:
- Will care about the well being of people with developmental challenges and their families.
- Address problems through collaborative actions.
- Benefit and learn through the inclusion of people with developmental challenges.
Goals
Our goals are to:
- Support people to live in their homes (whatever type of homes those are)
- Enable people to navigate the community support system
- Make the community support system work for people through community development
Principles & Values
Community Living Kawartha Lakes will:
- Only undertake activities that deliver value, offer high quality and are economically feasible.
- Communicate with and educate key stakeholders to facilitate a greater understanding and alignment between their expectations and Community Living Kawartha Lake's vision.
- Hold itself and its users jointly responsible for program deliverables (outcomes) and costs.
- Work with others to achieve results since it cannot do everything on its own.
- Ensure that all programs and services promote self-determination, that people supported have meaningful inclusion in the decision-making process, and their choices direct the planning process.
- Ensure that all people with a developmental challenge are respected for their human worth and dignity, and have the same rights and responsibilities of other community members.
- Enhance and strengthen natural/informal support systems so that families and social networks can continue to support persons with developmental challenges.
- Ensure the people we support are free from abuse and neglect.
- Strive to provide people with equal access to services based on need.
Funders
Our services are made possible through financial support from a variety of sources, including government funding, corporate sponsorship, volunteer help, fundraising projects, donations and the United Way.
Please click on the logos to visit our funders' websites:
Ministry of Community and Social Services (MCSS)
The Province of Ontario
City of Kawartha Lakes
United Way for the City of Kawartha Lakes
Affiliations
Please click on the logos to visit our affiliates' websites:
Community Living Ontario (CLO)
Integration Action for Inclusion in Education & Community
Kawartha Lakes Association of Volunteer Administrators
Learning Disabilities Association of Ontario
Lindsay & District Chamber of Commerce
OASIS (Ontario Agencies Supporting Individuals with Special Needs)
We are a charitable, non-profit organization. Our registered charitable number is 107627366 RR0001.
Community Employers
We would like to recognize, and thank, employers who provide - or have provided - opportunities to the people we support.
Bonar Plastics
Bowlaway Lanes
Burns Bulk Food
Cambridge Street United Church
City of Kawartha Lakes
East Side Mario's, Oshawa
Egan Ridge Golf & Country Club
Eleanor McDonald
Green Acres Trailer Park
House Wines
Hydro One - Fenelon Falls, Minden, Peterborough
Joe Morrissey
John Polito
Kawartha Food Source
Kawartha Lakes Boys & Girls Club
Kawartha Lakes Winery
Kim & Dale
Laidlaw Transit
LCVI
Lindsay Curling Club
Lindsay Iron & Metal
Loblaws
Mike Stokes
Nexicom
River Wine Works
Riverside Cemetery
Riverwood Trailer Park
Royal Canadian Legion, Lindsay Branch
Saddlewood Farm
Sears
St. Mary's School (Lindsay)
St. Paul's Anglican Church
Victoria County Humane Society
Village Winery
Community employers make a vital contribution to the people we support. For more information about opportunities for employers and businesses, click here
Strategic Plan
The Board of Directors approved our latest strategic plan - Community Living Kawartha Lakes, Onward & Forward - on December 19, 2005. To read our plan, choose a link below:
Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to access these PDF files. For a free download, click here.
AGM Report
Our AGM report is available in PDF format. You will need Adobe Reader to view the report. Click here to download Adobe Reader.
Report cover
A Message from the Executive Director & President
The Big Picture - Transformation in Ontario
Our Accomplishments page 1
Our Accomplishments page 2
Our Accomplishments page 3 & Memberships
Community Employers, Board of Directors, Members & Volunteers
Community Partnerships & Funders
Our Services page 1
Our Services page 2 & Our Business Divisions
Financial Highlights
Statement of Operations
