Why choose Health & Transition Services
Health & Transition Servieces provides services to children and adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities who require 24-hour medical care. We pride ourselves on creating six main points of service for the people we support:
We maintain and enhance a person’s abilities and their opportunities for self-determination by:
- Facilitating the transfer of acquired skills into all environments
- Developing structured leisure and experiential programs during evenings, weekends and on school holidays
- Providing structured, individualized programs for adults over 21 years of age with vocational, developmental and experiential components
- Maximizing opportunities for people to participate in the community outside of Health & Transition Services
We foster a sense of security and safety by providing:
- A stable home and an enriched, non-restrictive lifestyle
- An individualized approach to care that promotes stability, continuity and patterns of life that are as normal as possible
- Appropriate role modeling and positive social interaction by competent and caring staff
- Opportunities for positive and enduring relationships between people we support and staff
To promote optimal physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health and well-being by:
- Developing, implementing and monitoring comprehensive individualized care plans
- Promoting positive, healthy lifestyle choices and habits
- Consulting with medical and clinical specialists to ensure a holistic approach to healthcare
We demonstrate support and respect for families and advocates by:
- Being accepting and non-judgemental of each family’s cultural and spiritual values
- Facilitating involvement in relevant cultural experiences
- Helping families identify and access resources
- Initiating proactive contact, sharing information, listening and responding to concerns
- Including the family or advocate as active participants in planning
- Showing respect for family ideas and goals
- Encouraging and supporting involvement
We act as a resource to the community by:
- Providing high-quality respite services
- Providing practicum learning experiences for students considering careers in human services
- Providing valuable volunteer experience to those seeking to be of service to people with developmental disabilities
- Sharing expertise with other healthcare, developmental, educational and community groups/facilities
We ensure quality in all program aspects by creating a Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) approach that includes:
- Strong person and family-centered focus
- Continual improvement of all processes and outcomes
- Active involvement of all team members
- Using objective data and team knowledge in all decision-making
- Administering services within the budget provided consistent with accreditation and professional association guidelines and within approved policies and procedures