Answering Your Questions
What is your connection to Community Living Kawartha Lakes? Do you have the same clients?
Job Quest is a division of
Community Living Kawartha Lakes, which has been serving the
community for 47 years and has grown to become the largest
not-for-profit social service agency in the City of Kawartha Lakes.
The one hundred and five staff members of Community Living Kawartha
Lakes provide quality support and services to over 500 people with
intellectual challenges and their families.
Upon start-up, we operated Job Quest for a year as a pilot project
to ensure that it would be self-sustaining. When we succeeded in
turning over a profit in our first year, Community Living Kawartha
Lakes decided to continue developing Job Quest, but we receive no
funding dollars from Community Living.
While we do share some clients (about 5% of those we support) with
Community Living Kawartha Lakes, 95% of the people support by Job
Quest struggle with mental illness or learning disabilities.
Job Quest serves approximately 100 new people each year in addition
to clientele who are carried over from the previous year (30 to 50%)
and are still receiving services (for example, employment training
and job maintenance services). In the past year, we supported 130
people who wanted to work.