Pathways | Support for Adults with Disabilities

Support for Adults with Disabilities

Disability Services, Education, Employment, and Housing / Shelter

Provided by Milieu Family Services

Provides a broad range of services to persons with developmental disabilities.

Milieu provides a broad range of services to persons with developmental disabilities and their families, these include:

Employment: Assist people to achieve and maintain successful employment outcomes, including establishing their own business venture. Staff help to highlight the abilities, skills and preferences of people who want to work. Staff negotiates with the employer to create a position that recognizes the individual’s skills and preferences. The program provides individual planning, job seeker profile preparation, assistance with interview skills, marketing and job search, employment counselling, on-site training and monitoring, and follow-up with employers and participants.
Self Advocacy: Program creates the perfect person-centred environment to promote and cultivate employment ideas flourishing from an entrepreneurial spirit. The overarching outcome is that of meaningful, gainful activities resulting in an enhanced overall quality of life.
Community inclusion: Offers day services in Delta and Surrey which focus on community inclusion and vocational support. The Surrey / Fleetwood location is at 15127 Fraser Highway in Surrey. The Delta location is at 11920 – 88th Avenue in Delta.
Outreach: This service is available either in the community or through the person’s home, depending upon personal preference. This service provides a customized spectrum of supports designed to assist adults to accomplish specific goals towards greater independence and include such things as community and personal safety, money management and transportation training.
Staffed residential homes: Offers people a home that best matches their needs and is located in their community. All homes provide 24 hour a day support with professionally skilled and trained staff. Each home environment reflects residents’ personalities, tastes and interests.
Shared living: Provides both staffed residential and family-based shared living services which are designed to meet the needs of each individual.