Kings Regional Rehabilitation Centre

Hello, I'm Joe Haverstock, Chief Executive Officer here at King's Regional Rehabilitation Centre in Waterville, Nova Scotia. We partner with individuals, their families, and the community to provide supportive living, learning, and vocational opportunities for persons with disabilities. We've been a leader in the field for more than 50 years and provide services to over 200 individuals ranging in age from 10 to 85 with intellectual disabilities, cognitive challenges, chronic mental health, acquired brain injury, and physical disabilities. Our learning technology centre provides supports for literacy and adult education, as well as assistive technology services both in centre and the community. Technology is essential in the inclusion and accessibility in a person's ability to learn and work. Clients are assessed and personal goals developed through a person-centered individual program plan. Plans are designed to enhance independence and clients are supported in meeting their goals by dedicated staff and skilled clinicians. KRRC is evolving under the province's transformation plan of providing choice and inclusion and helping more people with disabilities live successfully in the community.

My name is Hugo Bouter, and KRRC has been an important part of my life for the past 17 years. The Community Options Program has helped me develop the skills I need to be successful living in the community and helped me find a job, and I love helping others. As president of the client council, I have a say in the programs and services offered here, and I'm proud to be able to help other clients have a voice and be happy.

KRC has over 30 years' experience providing community-based training both to residents in the centre and the community. All the participants at Plank Industries take great pride in their quality work.

Hi, I'm Jackie Roop, coordinator of Plank Industries Woodworking and Packaging, a service centre of the King's Regional Rehabilitation Centre. We have a fully operating furniture refinishing area, a mill which mills lumber to be used in our carpentry area, as well as makes slab for kindling production. We produce and sell that on location here year-round. Our carpentry area produces display units and stakes for local Nova Scotia businesses, as well as we do specialty projects. The packaging area is a fully active area supporting local businesses with their labeling, shrink wrapping, packaging, and assembling of their products. Doggone Goodies is a preservative-free dog biscuit available in 3 different flavours. We mix, bake, and package those on location here, and they are sold at local small businesses and farm markets throughout the province.

King's Regional Rehabilitation Centre continues to grow our capacity in the community through assessment, to care, to supportive living, learning, and vocational opportunities.