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Pioneer Youth Services - K/W
26 Dorset St. Waterloo, ON N2L 3L5 Phone: (519) 884-3985 Fax: (519) 884-3909
MINISTRY REGION: Central West
Pioneer Youth Services has established eight comprehensive residential programs, with a multidisciplinary, eclectic approach. We assist in the detection and treatment of the special needs of children with mental, emotional, physical, learning, cultural or social challenges. Pioneer homes attempt to create a warm, secure environment for residents, while at the same time promoting independence and resourcefulness.
Aware of the fact that in the past, many children were placed in a variety of "Families", Pioneer does not strive to create still another poor simulation of a family situation which could lead to unrealistic expectations on the part of the resident and eventual disappointment. Instead, Pioneer homes endeavour to create an alternate setting, promoting self-reliance and the development of warm, realistic relationships with house counsellors.
Pioneer firmly believes that an individual, well-designed program for each resident is of crucial importance in that it provides a focal point for the resident. Expectations and consequences are clear and consistent so that each resident can depend on his/her program and derive a sense of security from well-defined routines and activities. Pioneer allows its residents to assume responsibility in a normative setting, to meet clear and consistent expectations of the adults responsible for them, and to take advantage of opportunities which will help them develop their own sense of responsibilities.
We realize that whatever the special needs of the emotional or physically challenged child are, first of all he/she is a person with basic needs, not dramatically different in kind or quality from the needs of any other person, so therefore the milieu into which we place him/her, while we try to meet the special needs, must at the very least be equal to the milieu in which a normal child lives. It is to these very basic requirements that any special treatment techniques or accommodations to his/her special needs must be added.
As many individual programs and needs are accommodated at Pioneer, we are always careful to maintain a perceptive adaptation of program guidelines, a constant awareness of standards and a flexible organizational structure. Residents may attend their appropriate community school or, depending on evidence of exceptional emotional and/or behavioural needs, they may be enrolled in Pioneer's educational program, that promotes the integration into the main school stream whenever feasible.
Primary Contact:
Mr. Glory To, Executive Director PHONE: (519) 884-3985
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