Avenues

What is Avenues?

Flexible Supports for People's Lives

For People and Families Information
For Personal Assistants Information
Making the Choice to Self-Administer Funding
Resources

Avenues is a project that has evolved over many years in the Windsor-Essex community. Many people, families and support organizations spent a lot of time discussing the necessity for an innovative payroll and human resource support for people who have a disability who have individualized funding and are self-directing — this is Avenues. Avenues provides tailor made human resource and financial supports. This means that you can choose the types of supports you want — it really is up to you. We can help you with support for the recruitment, scheduling, interviewing, monitoring, training, and/or payroll for personal assistants.

In a system that supports people and families with individualized funding (person-controlled)Avenues is one of three links to ensure that people have they lives they want.

Operational Values of Avenues

• People are valued for their gifts and contributions
• Nothing about me, without me
• Avenues is accountable to the person

• Goals should reflect the person's dreams, gifts and strengths

• Facilitation is independent from the service system

• Service is flexible because individualized funding reflects that a person's life changes as they have the opportunity to experience new things and to enhance their life,
• New goals will always have to be created

• Through individualized funding people have the opportunity experience citizenship, to be involved and give back to their community

• Real connections are encouraged, including good rapport with personal assistants

• Opportunities to meet and talk will strengthen families

How Avenues services work and are offered to the community