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Our Vision: A community where individuals and families are supported in leading healthy, productive and fulfilling lives.

Our Mission: Kelowna Community Resources is a socially-responsive Agency dedicated to meeting community, government and individual needs.

 

We do this by:

1. providing access to resources, services, and products;
2. providing support programs that encourage client involvement, self-reliance and independence;
3. bringing individuals and organizations together to work collaboratively for the benefit of the community;
4. recognizing individuality by tailoring services to meet unique needs;
5. fostering diversity.

Core Values

• We believe every individual has intrinsic worth and the right to be treated with dignity, honesty, integrity and respect.
• We believe in the potential of all human beings and the resiliency of the human spirit.
• We believe the empowerment of individuals is fundamental to everything we do as an organization.
• We believe in addressing community needs through collaboration to achieve a healthy and caring society.
• We believe in the importance of philanthropy - the giving of time, talent, treasure and trust, and the significance of a volunteer/staff partnership to foster a caring society.

KCR Background

Kelowna Community Resources is a not-for-profit society and a registered charity.  We have been providing services since 1983.  We provide programming in a variety of areas including volunteer/community services, crisis intervention services, services to families with young children and adoption services.

KCR operates under the direction of a volunteer Board of Directors who support the Executive Director in carrying out the business of the agency.  The Executive Director has support from the management team.  We currently have 27 staff and operate out of two separate locations, 255 Lawrence Avenue and #120-1735 Dolphin Avenue.

As an organization we are members of:

• The United Way       
• American Association of Suicidology
• Chamber of Commerce
• Downtown Business Association
• BC Crisis Line Association
• Canadian Association of Suicide Prevention
• ASPECT
• Federation of Child and Family Services of BC
• Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Service Agencies of BC (AMSSA)
• Volunteer BC
• Inform Canada
• Alliance of Information & Referral Specialists (AIRS)

2009 - 2010  Board of Directors

Kevin Crookes, President
Janice Beaton, Vice President
Kim Darling, Treasurer
Brian Baehr, Past President
Terry Dunn, Director
Laura Thurnheer, Director
Rob Peter, Director
Rod Barrett, Director