We’re excited to share our 2024 annual report! This year’s theme, “We Are All Leaders: (Re)thinking Leadership”, celebrates the idea that each of us can be a leader and a catalyst for change. This theme echoes a powerful call to action that underlies our collective work - leaders who make a difference are those who do not settle and strive against all odds and barriers to insist on figuring out how to support people with disabilities to have good lives.

We’re excited to share our 2023 annual report! This year’s theme, Now What? Carrying Our Learning Forward, Imagining Better Futures, is both a call to action and a time to look forward and imagine the future we want to build together.

In preparation for writing this piece, members of the Skills Society leadership team came together in reflective conversation. We shared experiences and insights that surfaced for us as we reflected on our work in striving to support people with disabilities to lead good lives. We then looked at our collective reflections and pulled out themes - patterns that showed up across our stories.

In writing this piece we grappled with a tricky tension - trying to strike a balance between sharing big and lofty ideas and offering practical examples and tangible ways those ideas show up in all our everyday lives. This is a tension we are continuously exploring as we strive to honour our commitment to bridging the gap between ‘theory’ and ‘practice’…

Something that is important to us at Skills Society is continually exploring ways of more intentionally weaving meaningful Indigenous inclusion throughout our organization. This is important work in our individual and collective journey towards reconciliation…

To: People we Support, Families, Guardians, and Skills Society Employees RE: Learning About & Celebrating Black History Month From: Skills Society Leadership February 18, 2022 A Message from Skills Society Executive Director, Ben Weinlick

EMERGING PRIORITIES We focus on these emerging priorities to ensure that we continue to effectively navigate, respond to, and thrive in current policy and funding contexts. ONGOING PRIORITIES In addition to the emerging priorities, we continue to focus on the ongoing…

In our Future of Home: Inclusive Housing Solutions Lab, we have partnered with Inclusion Alberta, Civida (formerly Capital Region Housing), and Homeward Trust to explore affordable and accessible housing solutions that…

Each year, through the University of Alberta Community Service-Learning (CSL) Non-profit Board Internship Program, Skills Society invites students to intern with the Skills board, and as part of the internship program students complete a project to support board…

Gratitude When I reflect back on the past year and the tough times our Skills community faced, the key word for what really mattered most to me is gratitude. Gratitude for how the people we serve and their families have adapted their lives, been patient, careful and…

A Year Like No Other 2020-2021 was a year like no other the Skills Society has ever experienced. The global COVID pandemic presented unrelenting daily challenges, large and small, for every member of the Skills Society family. Keeping everyone safe and well was the…

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