Our Approach

Our Commitment

OFGH promotes dignity, respect and inclusion for all persons. We are committed and passionate about supporting persons with unique and complex needs to achieve a healthy lifestyle, inclusion through engagement in the community and the opportunities to pursue their dreams. We are committed to ensuring that the rights of each person are honoured and their sense of belonging and belief in themselves is encouraged daily in all aspects of their care.

Service Principals

  • Provide safe, supportive, care and services;
  • Ensure that our high quality of care is maintained and all Ministry of Ontario and Agency Placement requirements are met throughout care;
  • Encourage and support each person to become as independent as possible and to experience personal achievements and success;
  • Ensure each person’s values, dignity and privacy is respected;
  • Promote inclusion in all aspects of their daily living including community schools, community activities and social groups; public events etc;
  • Encourage and support positive use of recreational and leisure time;
  • Promote and support meaningful relationships;
  • Pursue a menu of feasible professional services, community supports and programs to ensure health and personal development;
  • Advocate for and educate others about the importance of integration and participation;
  • Provide Individualized planning, promoting personal choices, opportunities and responsibility;
  • Promote opportunities where each individual “believes” in themselves and their ability to achieve their dreams.

Our Values: Cornerstones of Care

Achieved through Respect, Inclusion and Supports for Healthy Relationships

Building

Our integrated team of clinical and non-clinical resources, and a customized approach to care and treatment, encourages individuals to build the knowledge, skills and habits that underpin sustainable behaviour change. Whether its communication, social or activities of daily living, a focus on consistent, incremental growth can have a profound impact on what individuals believe about themselves. 

Believing

Our belief in ourselves is critical to affect positive change. Focusing on finding a client’s gifts and healthy sense of self-esteem allows them to excel in their individualized plans. Everyone has a “gift” or skill, and once we assist them to see it, nurture it, and believe it, it becomes a solid foundation to assist them in their goals and success in their treatment and wellness.

Belonging

A sense of belonging is an important aspect of all of our daily living. We all want to belong in our families, our communities and with our peers. Our desire for connection and love runs deep, so much so that we may compromise who we are in order to belong. That common element in all of us in that need to belong is a strong foundation to reaching our goals and dreams.

Becoming

We work hard with each individual in our care to establish a better sense of self, about who they can become, and the life goals they can achieve. We help them focus on the incremental growth that they achieve and help them see the possibilities of continued development. A change in perception of who they can become, brings changed behaviors in their daily living and goals.

Living Our Values

OFGH strives to develop ambassadors of our Values across the organization. Specifically, OFGH leaders play an important role in living our Values and they are expected to bring our Values to life in the following ways:

  • Role model our Values in day-to-day interactions with staff and supported individuals and in decision-making
  • Referencing our Values explicitly in various real-time situations to highlight their importance
  • Conducting formal and information training on what our Values look like in practice
  • Celebrating the adoption of our Values regularly

In addition, the design of our programs reflects our Values. Programs are uniquely designed to offer opportunities, care and quality services for people with developmental needs to achieve their goals and reach their potential. Our programs provide consistency, repetition, skill modeling, and the appropriate use of verbal praise and reinforcement within a safe, positive, nurturing environment.

Our teams work closely with family, school boards and community support agencies to ensure supported individuals are provided with appropriate opportunities to achieve their personal goals and thrive in their day-to-day healthy living.

Our programs have access to a multidisciplinary treatment team including Child and Youth Workers, Developmental Support Workers, Social Workers, Supervised Behaviour Technicians, a Registered Behavior Analyst, and a consulting Psychologist. The treatment team works collaboratively to create and implement a client centered individual care plan for each individual.