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Annual Report 2017/2018 TURNING LEAFTURNING SERVICES LEAFTURNING SERVICES 22 4 Boards and Committees 16 Training and Volunteers 5 A Message from Our CEO 19 Human Resources 6 A Year in Review 20 Marketing and Communications 8 Supported Independent Living 22 Financial Statement and Residential Services 27 Supporters and Donors “We don’t judge people on their worst day, or their lowest point. We help people see themselves as someone worthy of a healthy, happy life.” – JENNIFER BIGGS, DIRECTOR OF SUPPORTED INDEPENDENT LIVING TURNING LEAFTURNING SERVICES 3 BOARDS AND COMMITTEES BOARD OF DIRECTORS TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT Kristina Yurkiw, Board Chair COMMITTEE Ruth Kresnyak, Treasurer Raj Perumal Femi Ogunrinde Christina Barton George Pasieka Samneek Sandhu Joe Macek Matt Bonham Raj Perumal Chantal Boulet Todd Nadeau STRATEGIC PLANNING HUMAN RESOURCE COMMITTEE COMMITTEE Kristina Yurkiw Todd Nadeau Barkley Engel Kristina Yurkiw Femi Ogunrinde PUBLIC RELATIONS/ Sara St. Germain FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE Renee Voss Chantal Boulet Alana Chegus Leanne Peters Brenda Bourns Swani Landry BOARD DEVELOPMENT CONSULTATION Rachel Loewen, Fillmore Riley LLP (MB) Adam Ailsby, KMP Law (SK) “We take someone’s voice that may be quiet and help it become louder so people will listen.” – JENNIFER BIGGS, DIRECTOR OF SUPPORTED INDEPENDENT LIVING TURNING LEAFTURNING SERVICES 4 UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE, Barkley Engel CEO and Founder EMPOWERING CHANGE Unconditional acceptance. This value is embodied Daily, the Turning Leaf team helps individuals by Turning Leaf’s 300 plus employees and struggling with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder volunteers. It is truly a critical ingredient in the in conflict with the law to get out of jail and make service we provide to more than 300 youth and healthy and safe decisions. We help intellectually- adults living with mental illness and intellectual challenged women, exploited by the sex trade, challenge. live a safe life away from people who will hurt them. We create customized risk management In our 13th year of operation, we have seen so and safety plans based on the individual and their many exciting changes within the organization: unique situation. We help people who suffer from new team members, new roles, new office spaces, debilitating mood disorders or schizophrenia get the and new services for the people of Manitoba and medical help and medications they need so they Saskatchewan. Although exciting and a testament can be the sons and daughters that their parents to the dedication and hard work of our Turning Leaf want them to be, without thinking about hurting team, these organizational accomplishments are themselves or others. outshined by the deeply meaningful, empowering life changes, healing, and growth our participants We meet hurting people where they are – fallen experience. through the cracks in our system – and design help just for them. We surround them with a community of trained, caring Turning Leaf team members so that they can experience empowering change, from hurt to healed, from feeling hopeless to feeling hopeful, from hungry to being fed, safe, clothed, and counseled. We provide unconditional acceptance and empower change. In the following pages, you will read of the incredible successes this innovative organization has experienced over the past year of operation, as well as the beautiful stories of personal change of our participants. For me, someone who has been involved since Turning Leaf’s inception, I am truly humbled by the work of the people around me and challenged daily to embody the values of this community: compassion, empathy and unconditional acceptance. I encourage all of you to be a part of Turning Leaf. In gratitude, Barkley Engel, M.A. CEO and Founder TURNING LEAFTURNING SERVICES 5 A YEAR IN REVIEW WINNIPEG uniquely-designed service that townhouses, our first ever cluster In 2018, Turning Leaf’s Youth will provide rapid and ongoing model. This unique model began Transitional Home opened in St. intervention in the high-risk offering housing and hope to James. This service is dedicated lives of vulnerable Manitobans people living with severe mental to supporting high-risk young who use intravenous drugs. illness. Today, dozens of people women struggling with substance Armed with clean equipment, call it home regardless of long abuse and protecting them from customized treatment methods, histories of being in conflict with sexual exploitation. and education and resources, the law, mental illness, addictions this group of dedicated Turning and homelessness. For Dan, Also in Winnipeg, our Guided Leafers will ensure that we Manny and Karen, it was a Living (Home Share) Program continue to embody unconditional sanctuary; a home. For Manny continues to flourish. An acceptance, especially for those and Karen, however, it isn’t home alternative to traditional group who fall through the gaps in to them anymore - this year they home living, Guided Living our systems. moved into their own apartment, matches families to participants, together, and will soon become allowing for mentorship and This year we tragically a family of three when they friendship to occur in a home lost a participant, Jane welcome their first-born. environment. The strength of this Meesewaypetung, to a drug model is the role-modelling – the overdose. She left us far too PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE guided living – Turning Leaf team soon, and her life impacted Portage la Prairie Turning Leaf members provide participants. ours in so many ways. Jane’s had more than the completion These guided living scenarios passing leaves us with an even of our ground-breaking new foster the development of skills deeper resolve to make our Harm treatment facility to celebrate such as money management, Reduction Service accessible this year. This new multi-unit cooking, menu planning, laundry, to the many individuals in our residential treatment home, with hygiene, home cleanliness and community living with drug the capacity to provide treatment the development of appropriate addiction, so they can have a and housing to 7 participants, and positive recreational habits. fighting chance at life – and the served as the vehicle for the one they so deserve. participants and staff team to ON THE HORIZON: make incredible connections LAUNCH! SELKIRK with their community. On In response to the narcotic It’s where “Dan” was able to September 22, 2017, neighbours, epidemic in Manitoba, a achieve two years of sobriety businesses, Mayor Irvine Ferris, Harm Reduction Pilot Project after a decade of homelessness MLA Ian Wishart, and many (LAUNCH) has begun. Under the and addiction. It’s where “Manny” supporters of our participants leadership of Christina Barton, got the mental health treatment gathered to celebrate the Senior Residential Support Case he needed to be healthy enough Party on the Prairies. With live Manager, a select group of to ask his housemate “Karen” music, local businesses like Turning Leaf team members have out on a date. It’s where dozens McCain’s sponsoring, and researched and developed this of Manitobans have found games and prizes, this was a soon-to-be service within Turning themselves when living with celebration of our participants Leaf, directly answering a need homelessness, addiction and the living successfully and safely in the community. The reality pain of mental illness seemed too alongside their neighbours, just is that intellectually challenged much to endure. like everyone else, with equal Manitobans are often unwelcome The Selkirk Residences – the first membership in the community. or unsuccessful in traditional residential experiment for Turning treatment facilities. LAUNCH is a Leaf – operates six adjoined TURNING LEAFTURNING SERVICES 6 WINKLER & MORDEN seeking out alternatives and treatment and being Turning Leaf Winkler continues to think outside of eager to work in and contribute to their community. the box when delivering services that reflect the “Jarrod” has enjoyed the longest length of time out specific needs of their community. Recently, the of jail in his life while living at Trinity - “I’m finally Winkler team opened the Turning Leaf Resource home here,” he’ll tell you, and we’re happy he is. Centre. With customized administrative space, meeting/therapy rooms, and a life skills training SUPPORTED INDEPENDENT LIVING facility, both participants from Turning Leaf and (REGINA) neighboring organizations can experience meal Our rapidly growing Community Support planning and preparation, grocery shopping, and Program in Regina has demonstrated that money management seminars specifically designed unconditional acceptance and empowering for those living with intellectual challenge. change is a recipe for successful independent living. “Myron,” who historically struggled with HABKIRK RESIDENTIAL HOME aggressive behavior, mental illness, and a medical (REGINA) condition that required critical regular treatment, Remaining an example of is living proof. Over the course of this year, Myron residential care innovation has gone from psychiatric hospitalization to in Saskatchewan, Habkirk residing in his own apartment, with the support Home transitions at-risk young of a small group of diligent support workers. He women from youth care into receives daily visits, medication, and help with his adulthood. Operating more laundry, buying healthy groceries, and cleaning like a family, this committed his apartment. However, Myron will tell you it’s the team has initiated yet another relapse-prevention programming and unconditional first