Safe transportation: vans for Community Living

Community involvement is the cornerstone of the Community Living program. Participation in recreational activities such as swimming and bowling, and regular visits with family members, significantly contribute to our clients’ health and well being. Due to medical and behavioural challenges, it is often not possible for our clients to travel by public transportation; consequently they require customized wheelchair accessible vehicles to participate in their communities. Additionally, vans are needed to safely transport clients to necessary medical appointments. Our fleet of specially modified vans is currently deteriorating with old vans in need of continuous repair. The cost to replace these much needed vehicles is beyond the scope of our funding, and we look to the generosity of our donors to fund the purchase of new vans.

Jude, one of our Community Living clients, is an avid bowler with a killer strike. He looks forward to bowling all week, and he is able to go if his group home can access one of the wheel chair accessible vans GVCSS shares among its six homes. Jude also likes to visit with his elderly mother who lives in a local nursing home. These special mother and son visits are becoming less frequent as Jude’s access to transportation becomes increasingly reduced.

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