We offer a wide range of dynamic and comprehensive programs and are committed to person-centered supports and advocacy that enhances people’s lives.
Values & Principles
Throughout all programs and services is to create a healthy and vibrant culture that facilitates meaningful outcomes for the persons served.
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Promoting
Celebrating
Click an option to view our offered adult services and programs or children and youth programs and services.
Home Share
Shared Living Caregivers
Where children & youth may go live with a family or a person in their home which then becomes their home as well.
Shared living is an option that provides safe, nurturing, community-based, living arrangements for children and youth. This service is provided through Contractors, who welcome a person into their home, offering a warm, inclusive environment and customized supports. Children/youth live in unique and varied family care arrangements such as sharing a house, apartment or living in a suite within the home. This model of support creates opportunities for natural relationships to develop and promotes full citizenship of the person through inclusion within their community. A caregiver may assist with life skills, meal preparation, personal care, relationship building and accessing community resources. The key to a successful, long-term arrangement is matching the child/youth and caregiver based on a variety of factors including, personality, lifestyle and interests.
Shared Living Care offers people the opportunity to choose their ideal caregivers and determine the lifestyle and environment that best suits their unique interests, support requirements and preferences.
What we look for in our Caregiver Contractors:
- Commitment to the values and principles of inclusive community living
- Previous experience supporting a person with disabilities
- Sincere desire to provide a stable, safe, comfortable and inclusive home
- Good problem solving/communication skills and the ability to be flexible, adaptable, organized, and accepting
Candidates undergo a comprehensive screening process which includes reference and criminal record checks as well as an in-depth Safe Study. Shared Living Caregiver care arrangements are monitored regularly and ongoing training and support is provided. For more information, refer to the application linked below.
Please submit your completed application and/or inquiries to homeshare@pccri.com
Home Maker
Build a Home
Focus on what the child/youth would like to do and how they want to spend their time when being supported. This may mean spending time in the community or in their home with a member of our team.
This service stream focuses on building connections with family and the community in which a child/youth lives. These services are determined by the child/youth and their family, based on their identified goals and preferences.
These services provide opportunities for participation in a variety of community experiences such as:
- Leisure or recreational activities
- Spiritual & cultural activities
- Pre-vocational & vocational pursuits
- Volunteerism in the community
- Education and training
- Development of life skills
- Health and wellness education and promotion
- Orientation, mobility, and destination training
- Access and utilization of public transportation
Community Inclusion
Get involved within your community
Focuses on supporting people in building connections with their community in which they live. These services are determined by the person based on their wants and needs.
Community Inclusion is intended to assist people to optimise their personal, social, employment and, volunteer opportunities within the community. These services are determined by the person, based on their identified goals and preferences.
Supports may be structured, centre-based and include a group of participants. Alternately, the program may be more informal with one to one support and based out of the person’s home or a specific location within the community.
These services provide opportunities for participation in a variety of community experiences such as:
- Leisure or recreational activities
- Spiritual & cultural activities
- Pre-vocational & vocational pursuits
- Volunteerism in the community
- Education and training
- Development of life skills
- Health and wellness education and promotion
- Orientation, mobility, and destination training
- Access and utilization of public transportation
Staffed Homes
Specialised Homes/Support Services
Provides a safe, loving, nurturing home for a child/youth to live in. They will have a team of people there to support them 24-7. Their family and important people in their life will continue to be engaged and involved in all their care.
Pacific Coast Children’s operated a number of Specialized Long-Term Care programs that provide a safe, loving, and nurturing environment for children/youth that requires intense supervision and support. These services are provided to children and youth with needs requiring a 24-hour staffed and specialized environment.
These homes are selected and custom built based soley on the needs of the child/youth to ensure they are connected with their family and community. These services are culturally safe, trauma-informed, and developmentally appropriate. Through our services, children/youth are able to develop healthy attachments with a stable team of highly skilled child and youth workers who are equipped to meet each child's unique day to day needs as well as support their continued growth, development and wellness. Specialized Long-Term Care also promotes attachment, emotional ties, and belonging by providing an environment where a child/youth’s family, extended family, and community are welcome and engaged in their ongoing care.
Respite
Support Family Functioning and enhance overall well-being
This is a home where the child/youth may go for a short period of time or a weekend to have fun and spend some time with their support team.
PCCR’s Respite services are developed to support family functioning and enhance overall well-being by providing that break, while at same time seamlessly maintaining a child/youth’s important routines and supports. PCCR’s children/youth respite services are person-centered, culturally safe, developmentally appropriate, structured and provided in a warm environment, with qualified caregivers who can meet the unique day to day needs of the child/youth.
Adult Services
Home Share
Shared Living Caregivers
The service is provided through Contractors, who welcome a person into their home, offering a warm, inclusive environment and customised support.
Home Sharing is a home option that provides safe, nurturing, community-based, shared living arrangements for adults with disabilities. The service is provided through Contractors, who welcome a person into their home, offering a warm, inclusive environment and customised supports. Supported persons live in unique and varied family care arrangements such as sharing a house, apartment or living in a suite within the home. This model of support creates opportunities for natural relationships to develop and promotes full citizenship of the person through inclusion within their community. A Home Share Provider may assist with life skills, meal preparation, personal care, relationship building and accessing community resources. The key to a successful, long-term arrangement is matching the person and Home Share Providers based on a variety of factors including, personality, lifestyle and interests.
Home Sharing offers people the opportunity to choose their ideal caregivers and determine the lifestyle and environment that best suits their unique interests, support requirements and preferences.
What we look for in our Home Sharing Contractors:
- Commitment to the values and principles of inclusive community living
- Previous experience supporting a person with disabilities
- Sincere desire to provide a stable, safe, comfortable and inclusive home
- Good problem solving/communication skills and the ability to be flexible, adaptable, organized, and accepting
Candidates undergo a comprehensive screening process which includes reference and criminal record checks as well as an in-depth home study. Home share arrangements are monitored regularly and ongoing training and support is provided. For more information, refer to our Home Share Provider Handbook.
Please submit your completed application and/or inquiries to homeshare@pccri.com
Community Inclusion
Get involved within your community
Focuses on supporting people in building connections with their community in which they live. These services are determined by the person based on their wants and needs.
Community Inclusion is intended to assist people to optimise their personal, social, employment, and, volunteer opportunities within the community. These services are determined by the person, based on their identified goals and preferences.
Supports may be structured, centre-based and include a group of participants. Alternately, the program may be more informal with one-to-one support and based out of the person’s home or a specific location within the community.
These services provide opportunities for participation in a variety of community experiences such as:
- Leisure or recreational activities
- Spiritual & cultural activities
- Pre-vocational & vocational pursuits
- Volunteerism in the community
- Education and training
- Development of life skills
- Health and wellness education and promotion
- Orientation, mobility, and destination training
- Access and utilization of public transportation
Community Outreach
Supported Independent Living
Flexible support for people who live or want to live independently in their community that require some support in meeting their goals and aspirations.
Supported independent living bridges the gap for people who require peripheral supports, but otherwise have the desire and ability to live on their own in the community.
Support may include assistance with budgeting, grocery shopping, banking, nutritious meal planning, cooking, health care appointments and maintaining a safe and clean home environment. Scheduled hours of support are flexible and determined by the needs of the individual.
Staffed Homes
Specialised Homes/Support Services
Provides people a safe and nurturing home to live in within their community. Person guided supports are provided around the clock to ensure the person’s health and wellness.
PCCR operates staffed homes throughout the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island and the Okanagan. These well maintained and attractive residences are located in established neighbourhoods within the community. Twenty-four hour support is provided by a rotating staff of dedicated, caring and qualified team members. Employee training and education includes; First Aid/CPR, MANDT (Pro-active, relationship based behavioural support), Food Safe, medication administration, personal care guidelines and emergency preparedness.
Supported persons engage in a Person Centered Planning process which identifies their goals and preferences. This information is used in developing individualized supports, activities and daily living opportunities at home and in the community.
Employment Services
Inclusive Workplaces and Communities
Supports that guides people through the process of getting work-ready, finding a job that meets their goals and maintaining employment.
Employment Mission Statement
To create inclusive workplaces and communities by offering a range of employment opportunities from its community-based locations.
Guiding principles
Pacific Coast Community Resources ensures that the guiding principles of the Canadian Association for Supported Employment are followed:
- Choice and Control
- Paid Employment
- Partnership
- Full Inclusion
Types of Employment Supports
Pacific Coast’s Employment Staff assist people to secure employment that is specific to their wishes and/or needs:
- Supported Employment
- Customized Employment
- Self-Employment
- Social Enterprise
- Individualized
Respite
Support Family Functioning and enhance overall well-being
Respite is a place where the people may go for a short period of time or over a weekend, while the primary care providers have a break in service.
Family services provide temporary relief from the physical and emotional support of caring for a family member with disabilities who lives at home. Maintaining your well being is vital to your role as a caregiver. Short-term breaks can relieve stress, restore energy, and promote a healthy balance for all family members.
Relief and respite support may be provided within the family home or the home of the respite care provider. Pacific Coast currently provides respite services across
L.I.F.E. Services
Combined Support
A service focused on combining support for people who are interested in employment, building relationships with their communities, and developing skills through life-long learning.
L.I.F.E. stands for: Learning, Inclusion, Friendship and Employment.
If your interested and want to learn more, Please check out the CLBC Website for more information on L.I.F.E. Services!
We are Hiring for L.I.F.E. Services! If you're interested, please check out our Careers Page!
Home Maker
Build a Home
Homemaker services are geared towards supporting families in maintaining their home environment. Support offered may include homemaking or household management.
Skills Development
Custom skill development services
Skill Development services are supported that aim to help people learn and explore skills to engage in their community.
A variety of new skill can be learned and explored. These include, prepping and planning meals, or how to use the local transit to get around in the community, doing daily house keeping, options are open ended.
This program support can take place in a 1:1 or group setting environment.
Get in Touch
Give us a call and we'd be happy to answer any of your questions about our services.