We talk a lot about supports here at Indwell! Since the purchase of Caroline Apartments, we’ve taken a unique approach: high quality affordable housing where tenants can live independently with a spectrum supports available.
These supports take many forms. Some tenants need support with medication, with food security, with coordination of community resources, or just a listening ear. In the mid-2000’s Indwell began offering a 6 week-long life skills program at Blossom Park and Wentworth Program. These skills included personal care, communication, home maintenance, and nutrition and cooking. Nowadays, while not every program has this specific class, all of our programs offer opportunities for tenants to build skills and interact with each other and their community in positive ways, through weekly Tea Times, groups like “Rock Talk” (a music discussion group), cooking groups, game nights and much more.
Recently, a long-time tenant of Hamilton’s Perkins Centre (stay tuned for more about the Perkins Centre in upcoming posts!) came proudly into our Resource Centre offices, showing off his certificate of completion for a course about Healthy Habits (certificate pictured below). He wanted to show our wider community and we’re happy to share his achievement with you.
