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Welcome
At HOMES (Healthy Opportunities for Meaningful Experience Society),
we currently support over fifty individuals in the rolling hills of
the Fraser Valley about an hour east of Vancouver, BC.
We support individuals in traditional
shared homes of four persons, individual homes with one or two
persons and we have many Supported Family Care homes. We train our
caregivers in a philosophy of Gentle Teaching and our mentoring from
John McGee has led to the formation of Gentle Teaching
International, which is better known as GTI.
GTI works worldwide to support Gentle
Teaching through the
www.gentleteaching.com web page. We put aside the traditional
models of control, compliance and building independence - for a
philosophy of gentleness, companionship, caring, and building
inter-dependence and community.
Our story has recently been
documented in a 55 minute DVD entitled "I've been down that road"
It's available for viewing and purchase online. This DVD
is the story of 10 of the young men and women referred to HOMES when
there appeared to be no other options. They came from jails, the
Forensic Institution, Willow Clinic, many failed placements and the
streets. The DVD documents their climb back out despair and endless
failure to a home and worth in the community.
Check out our latest DVD
I've been
Down That Road
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