Our Community

It's important for us to actively contribute to the communities in which we live and work, by volunteering and offering services-in-kind.

2008 & 2009 – For the past two years, we’ve had the pleasure of volunteering with a highly motivated group of parents to help open a ‘club’ for teens and young adults with developmental delays. Concerned by a void in our community, these parents have rallied together to create this club from scratch. As services-in-kind, PeopleWorks helped develop a needs assessment and an investment strategy, and assisted in the pursuit of funding requests. Today, The Club operates on an event-basis in various community centres. One day, The Club will be a place where teens and young adults can go anytime to learn, socialize and thrive.

2007 - PeopleWorks temporarily closed its doors in 2007, while Michelle happily stayed home with Baby Owen, born on January 8, 2007.

2006 - This year we provided services-in-kind to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Nova Scotia

With a provincial election nearing in Nova Scotia, the Foundation had to prepare its many volunteers and supporters to advocate on its behalf. PeopleWorks translated the Foundation’s complex health policy and strategy document into a meaningful, easy-to-understand piece for the everyday person.

2005 - This year we provided services in-kind to the Early Language & Learning Program in the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) and Working Miracles.

Early Language & Learning (ELL) programs offer a variety of services to parents and early childhood development practitioners, towards the goal of encouraging children's early language, emergent literacy, social and intellectual development.

In an effort to expand its reach and impact in our community, the ELL program approached PeopleWorks to facilitate a visioning exercise.

Working Miracles is a capital campaign for the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre with an ambitious goal - $42.5 million. By the summer of 2005, the campaign had reached the 75 per cent mark. Its next step was to move beyond the greater HRM area into the heart of Atlantic Canada's communities.

PeopleWorks was asked to join a select team of consultants to help carve out the beginning of a community relations plan to support this important next step.