"Survivor-run businesses must retain
the uniqueness of people helping people
who have drawn from the same well, who have walked the same walk and
who can recognize in each other the unexpressed, the unspoken fears, dreams,
hopes and longings of a life half-lived." -
Employee, ABEL Enterprises
MANDATE |
Haldimand-Norfolk Work Group of Simcoe, Abel Enterprises,
provides
non-clinical vocational employment and skill training opportunities
for the seriously mentally ill of Haldimand-Norfolk. The service is governed
by a Board of Directors and funded primarily by the Ontario Ministry of
Health.
MISSION STATEMENT |
Haldimand-Norfolk Work Group of Simcoe, Abel Enterprises
will work to promote the economic, social and community interest of
psychiatric survivors, in order to ensure their right to self-determination
and their participation in the development of initiatives to serve their
needs.
BELIEFS AND PRINCIPALS |
OUR VISION |
A just participatory membership of men and women, who work
for
personal empowerment through collective economic development
initiatives.
WHAT WE OFFER |
HNWGS, Abel Enterprises offers the following opportunities to all of its members.
WHO WE SERVE |
Haldimand-Norfolk Work Group of Simcoe, Abel Enterprises
operates
for the advancement of psychiatric survivors in the region of
Haldimand-Norfolk.
For additional information you can contact
Abel Enterprises at:
HNWGS ABEL ENTERPRISES
P.O. Box 988
Simcoe, Ontario
N3Y 5B3
Phone: (519) 426-4590