About
Organization Overview​
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HomeBridge Youth Society
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Non-profit, charitable organization founded in 1977.
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Responded to a need identified by child welfare workers for a facility to serve youth that foster homes were not appropriate for and for whom community-based residential services did not exist.
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Funded by the Department of Community Services.
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Operates six facilities in the Halifax Regional Municipality.
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Serves youth between the ages of 12 and 18 years old who cannot live at home for various reasons.
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Governed by a 15 member Board of Directors comprised of volunteer community professionals, following a policy model of governance.
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Operates with a multi-disciplinary approach to residential youth care.
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A Controller (Director of Finance) oversees all expenditures and revenues. The Controller works with all other Managers to ensure financial best practice is in place.
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The Executive Director is responsible directly to the Board of Directors, and manages all HomeBridge Youth Society’s operations on a daily basis.
“I learned to accept people for who they are because we have all been though our own things and there is no reason to judge.”
- HomeBridge Youth