Impact Residential & Community
Care Services Inc.

Impact Residential and Community Care Services provides specialized and professional services, to help support individuals with Exceptional Needs in our communities, while fostering an Inclusive Environment for all Clients.

MISSION STATEMENT

Committed to developing relationships that touches the lives of individuals with exceptional needs in our communities.

VISION STATEMENT

Promoting social inclusion among individuals with special needs in their valued environment.

TRENDY WEBSITE BLOCKS

Choose from the large selection of latest pre-made blocks - full-screen intro, bootstrap carousel, content slider, responsive image gallery with lightbox, parallax scrolling, video backgrounds, hamburger menu, sticky header and more. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Possimus, nam officia. Repellendus quae modi eaque sed, aliquam molestias, amet neque blanditiis illo ratione eos! Unde minima porro, consequatur eveniet dolore!

HOST ANYWHERE

Publish your website to a local drive, FTP or host on Amazon S3, Google Drive, Github. Don't limit yourself to just one platform or service provider. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Laboriosam, nisi, ea. Excepturi dolores, laborum ipsum soluta aliquid, ullam repellat ratione iste harum voluptatem? Alias id blanditiis, sequi possimus dolorem dolorum.

IMAGE/CONTENT SLIDER

Create a responsive, touch-swipe slideshow with Mobirise bootstrap slider. Add images, text, buttons to slides, set autoplay, full-screen, full-width or boxed layout. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Unde sunt, illo quo ipsa. Laboriosam voluptatem sunt nisi velit incidunt labore, sapiente pariatur ipsam fugiat doloremque asperiores eos ipsum, eveniet cum.

CONTACT FORMS

Easily add subscribe and contact forms without any server-side integration. Just link your email to form and get submissions instantly. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Accusantium id perspiciatis, sint odit error animi veniam omnis cupiditate distinctio, a quidem deleniti laborum maiores optio laudantium earum vel! Sint, rerum.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Impact provides both residential and community healthcare support services to youth and their families. Highly structured Residential Programs in a family home-like environment, and community comprises academics, life skills development, literacy skills, problem-solving techniques, physical fitness, nutrition, personal hygiene and activities of daily living skills. We believe that treatment is successful and effective when it addresses the individual’s priorities, is goal-orientated and involves the family as a partner in planning, and decision-making, as well as empowers the individual in achieving his/her goals.  

We are committed to the quality of care, healthy partnership with other healthcare professionals, contracting/TPA agencies, surrounding resources and the community involved in our youth’s 

Care. Impact offers a wide range of residential and community programs for our youth and their families. Youth placed in our care are between 12 to 17 years of age (but flexibility is offered to provide services to younger and older youth depending on their placement needs). Children and youth in our residential home are provided with support and care to help them in their efforts to deal with emotional, mental and behavioural issues that often emanated from abuse, neglect and/or unresolved issues or family problems. 


Our residential programs are set up and operate like regular family home environments; healthy, and supportive, providing routine and structure throughout the youth’s daily care schedule. Our aim and objectives revolve around reintegrating each youth back into their family, or into a community setting with independent living skills, and positive behavioural changes to ensure positive outcome

Our Residential Programs

 Impact has extensive experience in the operation of residential treatment programs and services. We are unique in our design, committed to providing the highest level of care and partnering with contracting/TPA agencies, communities resources, school boards, agencies and ministries, to ensure success in delivering the best possible quality care to our youth. Impact accepts both male and female youth with a range of diagnoses such as Developmental Delay, Conduct Disorder (i.e. fire setting), ASD, OCD, PDD, ADD, ADHD, Tourette Syndrome, Sexualized Behavior, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Physical Aggression, Substance Abuse and Mental Health related diagnosis. We provide assistance and guidance required to help our youth learn some Life Skills programs to encourage each youth to be independent as much as possible.

We Provide

Caring learning environment which allows youth the freedom and opportunity to be themselves while encouraging them to reach their potential. We believe every youth deserves the right to live in an environment which provides for their developmental, physical, and emotional needs.

Person-centered care plans will include input from the youth themselves and addresses the desires and goals of the individual youth toward the achievement of optimal growth and wellness.

Individualized programming to address the youth’s needs with regard to communication, behaviour, activities of daily living, community integration, and social, cultural, and spiritual aspects of their lives.
A ‘choice model’ environment where youth are given the opportunity to play a key role in the development and provision of their services and care. 

Supervision and guidance to maintain health and safety while striving to increase each youth’s level of independence and self-confidence, through the establishment and preservation of appropriate community relationships.

Individualize planning, promoting personal choices, preferences and opportunities.

PROGRAM GOALS

Our focus is always on the emotional, physical, spiritual, social, intellectual, sensory, and occupational wellness of each youth in our residential and community programs.

Our Goals Are

To provide safe, supportive care services/programs

To ensure that high standard quality of care is maintained and all MCCSS requirements are met.

To encourage and support each youth to become independent as much as possible, to achieve personal goals and success.

To ensure each youth's values, dignity and privacy are respected.

To encourage/ promote social inclusion in the community, schools, and social groups

To encourage and support the positive use of recreational and leisure time.

Educational or Training Program(s) Offered to Clients

Durham region has a variety of programs offered to youth which ranges from section 20 and 23 classes, individualized tutoring within the DDSB (Durham District School Board), cooking classes and so much more offered through agencies such as Career Programming for Indigenous, Durham Region Unemployed Help Center, Community Resources and John Howard Society, for example. There are a number of programs for youth with disabilities and programming with leisure and recreation in the Durham Region. 

COMMUNITY PROGRAMS, FACILITIES AND SERVICES AVAILABLE FOR YOUTH

South Oshawa Community Centre features a leisure pool with a waterslide, fitness centre, youth room and meeting rooms complete with a teaching kitchen. Situated on the Lake Ontario waterfront and attached to GL Roberts Collegiate and Vocational Institute, facility users have easy access to Stone Street Park, the Waterfront Trail and a playground. A variety of recreation programs are offered at this facility.

Legends Centre (North Oshawa) includes a 4-pad arena, leisure pool with lazy river and waterslide, fitness centre and indoor track, an outdoor accessible playground and a splash pad. Numerous recreation and drop-in programs are offered throughout the year. The Legends Centre is also home to branches of the Oshawa Senior Citizens Centres and the Oshawa Public Libraries.

Ability Center (Whitby) Each year, Abilities Centre engages more than 100,000 people living with and without disabilities through programs and services that impact the building blocks of quality of life: health and well-being, social inclusion, and economic participation. Abilities Centre is a community hub, research lab and inclusion incubator. They deliver programs, lead research and advocacy on inclusion issues, and develop innovative frameworks for scaling their programs and services to help communities across Durham and beyond.

Whitby Recreation Center offers a wide variety of year-round recreation programs to keep you and your family members active and engaged. From ice skating to fitness, yoga, Pilates, drop-in sports, swimming and aquafit classes, camps, programs and more, there is a program for everyone to get involved in.

Audley Recreation Centre (Ajax), better known as ARC, is the newest modern state-of-the-art 

Community Centre located in the northeast part of Ajax. ARC features:

A gymnasium

Fitness classes

Six (6) lane, 25-metre indoor lap pool

Leisure pool with therapy jets

Change rooms

Preschool room

Youth Space

Ajax Public Library - ARC Branch

Outside of this beautiful property, there is a skateboard park, splash pad, inclusive playground, basketball courts, tennis courts, baseball diamonds and walking paths.


Lynde Shores Conservation (Ajax) Extremely popular for wildlife viewing, Lynde Shores Conservation Area has a number of looping trails (5 km including the 1 km looping trail within the Cranberry West Tract). These trails, especially the Chickadee Trail, are just the right length for little ones and are generally stroller and wheelchair friendly. 

 Libraries are a great way for young people to expand their knowledge of different subject matters and to learn about the world around them. Many libraries have specialized programs for youth to help open their mind to explore different books and topics of interest to them. There are a number of libraries in the Durham region and they are listed below.

Ajax

Ajax has the main library and two smaller branches, which are:
Audley Branch
McLean Branch

Brock

Brock has three libraries around the Township. They are:
Beaverton Branch
Timothy Findley Memorial Branch (Cannington)
Sunderland Branch

Clarington

Clarington has four libraries. They are:
Bowmanville Branch
Courtice Branch
Newcastle Branch
Orono Branch

Oshawa

Oshawa has four libraries. They are:
Northview Branch
McLaughlin Branch
Jess Hann Branch
Delpark Homes Centre Branch

Pickering

Pickering has three libraries. They are:
Central Branch
George Ashe Branch
Claremont Branch

Scugog

Scugog's library is in Port Perry.

Uxbridge

Uxbridge has two libraries located in Uxbridge and Zephyr.

Whitby

Whitby has three libraries
Brooklin Branch
Rossland Branch
Central Branch

Community Services Access

Every Tuesday at 8 pm a bowling league has been arranged. Depending on the wishes of the client, more community time is welcome at NEBS, such as but not limited to video games, go-karts, and pool games to name a few things. According to our client's interest, there are many opportunities available for Community inclusion in the Durham Region. Prior programs have been organized through the YMCA,
Library, Trails, Parks, lakes/beaches, and movie theatres. Cultural programming and experiences are very important to our mission and values. We believe in cultural competency and promote cultural experiences, dining in different cultured restaurants, attending music festivals geared towards specific cultures as well as but not limited to having a cultural menu. Each week we research at our local library specific cultures of our clients as well as ones if interested. We have specified nights where menus is planned, grocery shopping for specific items and a family dinner at our table while we discuss different cultures.

Cultural Competency

1- Impact is committed to providing inclusive support and non-discriminatory services to our youths’ that is, in an environment that takes into account ethno-cultural, racial, linguistic, ancestral, sexual and religious diversity. Where Impact serves persons who are Francophone, Impact will ensure a minimum of one bilingual staff at the location 

2- Where Impact serves persons identified as aboriginal, first nation, Inuit and Metis; staff will receive appropriate training prior to working with FNIM youth to learn about the youth's culture including meal preparation, diets, religion etc. 

3- Youth who receive support are provided with opportunities to participate in leisure and recreational activities that promote physical, social and cultural benefits in keeping with Impact commitment to providing inclusive support.

4- Where unique supports related to ethno-cultural, racial, linguistic, ancestral, sexual, and religious diversity are required, these must be discussed at the Plan of Care meeting and noted in the Plan of Care and In-House Procedure Manual. As appropriate. This may include such things as a celebration of faith- or culturally-based fasts, festivals or foods.

5- Impact provides support to youth regardless of their religious, and spiritual choices and affiliation. All Impacts’ employees will respect the religion, spiritual choices and affiliation of the youth support