The Weyburn Wor-Kin Shop has entered a video, essay and pictures in the Joey's Only Community Revival Contest in hopes of winning the $15,000 grand prize, which would go towards the cost of a new day program building. Voting ends on November 30 and voters are able to print a coupon for a free Two-Piece Fish & Chips.
Access Communications put together an inspiring video for the contest entry, which can be viewed online via the link found at wor-kin.com. Voters need to go to this site in order to get the coupon and to help the Wor-Kin Shop win the contest.
Weyburn Wor-Kin Shop has been providing programs and services that enhance the quality of life and promote independence and community inclusion for adults with development and intellectual disabilities since 1971. The goal is to raise $500,000 in time to break ground for the new facility in early 2012.
Wor-Kin plans to build a brand new facility from which to operate their Day Programs and meet the needs of individuals requiring sustainable and enhanced services well into the future. Currently, they are located in an aged and decaying cement warehouse with high ceilings, fluorescent lighting and inadequate heating and cooling. It is shared with a recycling facility so it is very noisy, dirty and smelly.
The agency serves 32 people with at least 30 more on a waitlist who cannot possibly be served in this location due to their very specialized, intensive support requirements. A new building is an absolute must.
In addition to standard facility solutions such as bathrooms that accommodate wheelchairs, the new facility will have a Snoezelen Room, which is designed for those with intellectual disabilities, autism and other developmental disabilities, dementia, or brain injury. This room will serve to reduce violent, aggressive and self-injurious behavior and be available to the community as a whole.
Also, those with Complex Needs will have an environmentally appropriate and safe space.
In the past 40 years the agency has made extensive and long lasting partnerships that have continued to help grow and strengthen the organization. Helping has never been so easy: voting in the Community Revival Project is as simple as a mouse-click.
