Dreams
Creating Connection and Empowering Choice
Dreams is a program that believes in the power of joy and connection every single day. For individuals facing significant mobility and communication challenges, Dreams enhances autonomy through tailored support and focusing on personal choice.
Highly Trained Staff
Trust and Support
Dreams supports participants who face physical barriers to engaging in the community and have complex clinical needs. The program emphasizes building strong, trusting relationships between participants and dedicated skilled staff. Our team is specially trained to provide individualized care and support, including lifts and transfers, eating and drinking (including tube feeds), and mobility and physiotherapy routines. By combining expert care with a focus on connection and participation, Dreams empowers participants to engage meaningfully in daily activities and community life.
The Routine
Day to Day
With one-on-one support, programming in Dreams is highly individualized and based on each participant’s abilities.
Daily activities include:
- Participation in community events
- Cooking programs
- Volunteering tailored to individual's abilities
- Recreation
The Goals
Belonging
Environmental predictability, a high level of support, and socializing in small groups leads to comfort and belonging at Garth Homer.
Learning and Growth
One on one support allows learning and growth to happen at the pace of the individual.
Healthy Supportive Relationships
The individualized calm quiet setting provides that environmental predictability that promotes the building of relationships.
Autonomy
Staff focus on assisting individuals to communicate their needs, and to make choices.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I know if Dreams is the right fit?
Dreams focuses on building community and supporting personal choice for participants who face physical barriers to engaging in the community and have complex clinical needs.
Each individual’s journey at Garth Homer begins with a conversation around what it is that they would like their life to look like. This conversation is how we determine which program is the right fit for each person.
Instead of fitting individuals into preset boxes, we build experiences around each person. Our flexible approach means each individual’s day, activities, and community are all designed to reflect who they are and what they want out of life. This means not everyone in a specific program are doing the same thing at the same time.
What is the schedule for Dreams?
All Community Inclusion programs run Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM, but each persons schedule is flexible. Each participant chooses the days that fit their life, while still enjoying all the resources, activities, and guidance we offer.
Where is Dreams located?
Community Inclusion programs are located at the former SJ Willis School Building, 923 Topaz Ave, Victoria, BC V8T 2M2, but we don’t stay put! Participants regularly head out to explore community locations, participate in activities, and experience new environments. It’s the best of both worlds: the comfort of a familiar space and the excitement of something new every week.
Access Our Services
It all starts with Community Living BC (CLBC), the provincial crown agency. They work with individuals, families, service providers and other key members on an individual’s care team to determine funding eligibility and provide options. The Garth Homer Society is partially funded by Community Living BC, and almost all of our clients are referred to us through their services.
Determining Fit
Each individual’s journey at Garth Homer begins with a conversation around what it is that they would like their life to look like. This conversation is how we determine which program is the right fit for each person.
Our programs bring together peers with shared interests and needs, fostering real connection and belonging. Every plan is personalized, flexible, and built around the individual, ensuring each person is never just placed into a preset program, they help create it.
Programs don’t define people, people define the programs.
What’s Happening in Dreams
Community Inclusion
Community Inclusion day programs foster belonging and purpose through community involvement and meaningful contribution. Programs are differentiated by participants’ interests and needs.