Seniors’ Centre Without Walls Saskatchewan

Seniors Centre Without Walls Saskatchewan Incorporated

(Former: Age Friendly Outreach & Resource Network Moose Jaw Inc.)

Incorporation date: 2019
Entity Number: 102087113
CRA Registration Number: 769788134 RC 0001

Seniors Centre Without Walls Saskatchewan Inc.

Finding Solutions – Empowering Seniors – To Live A Life With Dignity

Seniors Centre Without Walls Saskatchewan Inc. is a non-profit agency providing outreach programs, community connections, and resources for people that are 55+. We also partner with community organizations to provide assistance, enquiry, community education, and outreach services.

VISION

• To provide programs and resources for adults 55+ that will assist with daily living and connections to the community.
• Assisting older adults through support programs that support older adults who wish to remain in their own homes.
• Develop a resource center to provide education, outreach, and services to older adults; that help with navigation, reduce isolation, loneliness and help provide resources and connections.
• Establish a network of trained volunteers to provide support services that will support older adults to remain in their own homes.

MISSION
Finding Solutions – Empowering Seniors -To Live A Life With Dignity

• Promote and maintain an optimal level of senior independence through the coordination of resources, individual and group programs, and support.
• Provide programs, services, and resources for people that are 55+ with an aim to support older adults to remain in their own homes.
• Partner with community organizations to provide services and resources through program planning.
• Support vulnerable older adults by protecting their rights and interests by having their voices heard and considered in decisions that affect them, within a safe environment.
• Support the physical, social, emotional, and mental health of older adults.
• To put resources in place to assist with daily living activities, in order that older adults may remain in their own homes and age in place.
• Develop a network of services with pre vetted trades, and local businesses which will provide services, at a discounted rate, to enable older adults to remain in their own homes.

GOALS

• Opportunity for every older adult to enjoy wellness, and quality of life.
• Empower people 55+ in our community through support services, and to serve as a focal point on issues affecting health, welfare, and safety of the older population.
• Relief of poverty, isolation, and elder abuse through education and promotion of health.
• Individual assistance to provide support for older adults to assist in navigating systems so they are treated with fairness and receive assistance they are entitled to.
• Decrease isolation and reduce detriments to health, through social activities and connections to resources.
• Provide support services to adults 55+ who are at home (where ever that may be) to reduce feelings of isolation and improve or maintain health.
• We strive to provide knowledge, resources, and provide daily living assistance and services.
• Promote and maintain an optimal level of senior independence through the coordination of resources, individual advocacy, and support.
• Committed to providing quality services to older adults, caregivers, and community members by delivering services that reflect individual needs, personal choice, and self-determination.
• Every older adult has the right to be healthy, safe, and be heard.
• Every older adult has the right to live a life with dignity and respect.
• Support vulnerable older adults by protecting their rights and interests and having their voices heard and considered in decisions that affect them.
• To provide knowledge and resources to our older adults and educate our community in order to provide a safe place for them to live and have high quality of life.

SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES

• Support older adults in relief of poverty, isolation, elder abuse through education, promotion of health, information, and outreach programs.
• Provide support for older adults to navigate the system to be treated with fairness and receive assistance they are entitled to.
• Provide In Home Supports and connections to community resources, to assist older adults to Age In Place and remain in their own homes
• Provide educational workshops and classes, in addition to being a centre of resources, and services, for older adults. Including antipoverty issues, and awareness of elder abuse, financial abuse, isolation and loneliness reduction, reducing detriments to health, and increasing social activities and connections.
• Phone call and teleconference program to ensure isolated older adults are safe in their home and connected to the community through phone calls.
• To promote health through connection to resources to ensure older adults have the connections they need to remain safe.

MANDATE

• Ensure that all people 55+ have their rights protected, their views and preferences upheld and their voices heard and considered.
• Help Build a stronger system of support and programs for all older adults through education of the public and of the older adults by creating a safe learning and caring environment that will be an invaluable resource to older adults and the community at large.
• Support the physical, social, emotional, and mental health of older adults.
• We provide resources where we can and connections to community organizations and resources.
• Develop key partnerships with other community organizations, allowing us to offer a wider range of solutions.
• Form Program Partners: collaborate with several local organizations and government offices to ensure the highest quality of service and care.
• We pursue the improvement of the quality of life for older adults through offering needed support services, that assist older adults to remain in their own homes.
• Provide quality services that inform, protect and care for each individual.

Equines and Elders Seniors living in independent or assisted living facilities join us at our barn for hands-
on activities with our horses and ponies. These interactions stimulate memory and provide a sense of

calm and well-being both for participants familiar with horses and for those who are new to them. Our
program sessions combine a number of unmounted activities based on the Equine Assisted Learning
model. Each session is carefully crafted to provide our clients with physical activity, memory and speech
stimulation, access to a safe outdoor environment and an emotional connection with the horse Sessions
are held at the Bar 5 Equine centre where equine wellness offers individuals the chance to interact with
horses in a relaxed environment.

Groups from senior centres will come out twice a week by centre bus or families bring seniors out by
vehicles. Family and caregivers of the seniors are welcome as well. The programs are aimed at seniors
60 years of age and up. Our goal is to create an all environment that is all inclusive and the program will
include the First Nations Seven Teachings of -respect, love, courage, honesty, wisdom, humility, and
truth. Our senior program sessions combine a number of unmounted activities based on interactions
between horses and seniors. Each session is carefully crafted to provide our clients with physical activity,
memory and speech stimulation, access to a safe, outdoor environment and an emotional connection
with an animal. Activities:

Expand and enhance our organization capacity for mental health and well being and mental illness
prevention programs through educational opportunities for seniors and/or senior caregivers. Adapt to
new models of promotion and prevention delivery.

• Enable access to skills, resources, and supportive environment that enhance equity and keep
  individuals and populations mentally healthy that will increase our capacity and offer the program in a
  non-conventional role, outdoors in nature, with horses as cofacilitators.
• Increase our capacity to serve others in mental wellness and prevention that builds skills, knowledge
  and resilience
• The senior client is typically with a trained mental health therapist and Registered Nurse, (volunteer
  senior social worker) an equine specialist, Intergeneration program volunteer youth assistants, and the
  horse. Having the horse present may offer a sense of peace, as they only will react to the client’s
  behavior and emotions with no threat of bias or any judgment of their emotional experience • Who is
  the client? Older adults over age 60 including women, Indigenous, Older Adults, those living with
  Dementia, People of Colour, Newcomers, LGBTQ+, and especially those in rural and remote areas
  around Moose Jaw, as well as senior aged caregivers.
• Expand intergenerational programs with youth and seniors in a mentorship role including literacy and
  equine facilitated wellness.

PUBLIC AWARENESS AND EDUCATION

• Educate the public on Awareness about older adults’ daily concerns and challenges.
• Helping older adults individually where they live, spreading information and generating interest in our community.
• Host speakers, seminars and workshops, host trade show for senior friendly businesses, wellness vendors, and wellness days/healthcare events that are specifically focused on elder care.
• Offer education and outreach programs for older adults and other community members on a broad array of issues affecting older adults.
• Initiate B.O.S.S. (Businesses and Organizations Supporting Seniors) a community network of business owners and organizations who come together in the community, to support seniors to remain in their own home.