Who Leads Serves
Leads Employment Services serves individuals with disabilities and those facing barriers to meaningful employment. Leads serves employers seeking a diverse, inclusive workforce. Leads serves across communities in multiple counties.
Leads Purpose and Vision for Impact
Leads exists for:
Individuals with disabilities and those with barriers to achieve meaningful, equitable, and productive work fostering independence, financial stability, dignity, hope, and a sense of belonging.
Employers to foster inclusive and equitable hiring and retention practices.
Critical Outcomes Vision
Leads is committed to and actively works to achieve these key critical outcomes:
Productive Workforce
- Individuals identify their employment-related goals.
- Individuals achieve meaningful employment.
- Individuals achieve a sense of self-esteem, hope, and belonging.
Inclusive Employers
- Employers value a variety of abilities and include individuals with employment barriers.
- Employers choose to have an inclusive workforce and foster supportive work environments.
Engaged Community
- The broader communities served by Leads understand, actively support, and invest in Leads’ purpose.
The Value of Leads Achievement
With responsible stewardship, Leads achieves its purpose and critical outcomes by utilizing its resources in a sustainable manner.
Values
Our values guide our decisions and our actions everyday in the services of our clients and communities.
Trustworthiness
We are honest, approachable, fair, and transparent. We acknowledge the stewardship that is entrusted to us with our very important purpose of assisting people with disabilities and those who are vulnerable with achieving meaningful employment. We take this responsibility very seriously. We take an unwavering pledge to meet our community’s expectations for ethical, trustworthy, and professional behaviour.
We walk our talk. We follow through on our commitments and remain accountable for our individual perspectives and actions.
Respect and Caring
We are committed to and care about all people we serve, including our clients, our employers, our staff, and our community. We work hard to achieve the best employment and skills development opportunities possible for our clients in a healthy, caring, professional, and supportive environment. We respect our clients’ rights to make their employment and life choices (decisions).
Collaboration
We work together to build understanding. We stand by one another and pull together through good times and bad. In doing so, we can leverage each other’s strengths and accomplish extraordinary things.
We understand relationships matter and intentionally develop partnerships. We actively collaborate to build understanding and to leverage our clients’, employers’, and communities’ collective knowledge, expertise, and resources to achieve the best skills development and meaningful employment results.
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity
We believe in making connections and appreciating all diversity. We are committed to being inclusive, open, and approachable and actively seek to better understand the many complex dynamics of equity, diversity, and inclusion. We strive to ensure our opportunities are equitable and accessible to all. We stand for the elimination of discrimination and recognize the immense value of diverse lived and learned experience to our organization.
Catalysts
We strive to be leaders in the field of supported employment and skills development. We explore root causes of issues in order to convene diverse conversations and generate community solutions to employment issues. We have the courage and confidence to develop and embrace new opportunities and create new solutions in order to shape a better, more accessible future for people with disabilities and barriers.
Impact Focused
What we do, we do well. We are innovative by always seeking new knowledge, by imagining, by creating, and by continuously improving our services and results.
Leads Behaviours
Our values drive many behaviours, some of which include
- Compassion
- Innovation
- Team Work
- Thoroughness
- Risk Taking
- Courage
- Enthusiasm
- Servant Leadership
- Effective Communication
- Engagement
- Flexibility
- Dependability
- Non-judgment
- Sense of Humour
- Empathy
- Building a Sense of Belonging
