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 Community Support Workers provide flexible support to adults living in arrangements of their choice ...independently in the community, living in an apartment, house, condominium or townhouse; or become a homeowner. Supports for individuals and hours available are flexible. They can range from a few hours a week to 24 hours a day, depending on the individual need.
Support also include respite options including support in the family home; Host Families and two repsite homes that adults can access for for short stays. As well as working with individuals who have an acquired brain injury.
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Respite Supports for Adults
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With IN HOME RESPITE , we help you choose a Community Support Worker that you feel comfortable having in your own home and/or supporting your son or daughter in the community. The role of the worker is determined by you. The goal of support to become more a part of the community to be able to spend time with friends...to take part in events, clubs or other places in the community...the possibilities are endless.
The HOST FAMILY option provides an opportunity for your adult son or daughter to spend time with another family that shares your ideas and values and will provide family life experiences that fit with your son or daughter's interests.
Two spacious and accessible RESPITE HOMES are available for adults to visit for brief stays away from their family home. The energetic Community Support Worker work hard to create a comfortable and safe environment where individuals can enjoy themselves. For example by mingling and exposing your son/daughter with others, or making it possible to participate community events.
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Supports for Survivors of Acquired Brain Injuries
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Community Support Workers provide support to individuals who are survivors of an acquired brain injury,
18 years of age or older and living independently. Community Support Workers work collaboratively with the Northern Alberta Brain Injury Society and Alberta Brain Injury Network.
Areas of support are flexible and focus on what each individual identifies.
- They include support to:
Connect and contribute to community, including local community resources such as recreational and leisure centers, community services, and transportation.
- Establish personal support networks.
- Relearn and further develop skills and strategies for memory, concentration, planning, and problem solving, managing time, money and a household.
- Preparing to re-enter the work force, for volunteerism or educational program.
Manage Change
Create meaningful and purposeful days.
For more information or to make a referral, please call: (780) 496-9686
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