Our Vision

A healthy and inclusive community where complete respect for all individuals is an ordinary, everyday occurrence.

Our Mission

Through community collaboration and service excellence, Nelson CARES Society works toward a socially just society by providing programs and initiatives in advocacy, housing, employment, support services, and environmental stewardship.

Nelson CARES Society aims to be a reflection of the community it envisions.

We ENVISION a socially just society where:

* Everyone has adequate and safe housing

* Everyone has access to support and representation when they need it

* Everyone has adequate means and resources to participate fully in community life

* Everyone takes responsibility for environmental stewardship

VALUES that guide our work:

Equality, respect, collaboration,

diversity, transparency, accountability, integrity

About Nelson CARES Society

How your Donation is used

Imagine not having a home of your own to return to each night. Imagine spending over 60% of your monthly income on rent and having to choose between that or food. Imagine living on a disability pension and having critical health supports, such as orthotics, cut from your benefits. Or imagine being a person with a disability willing and able to work and only finding doors close rather than open.

These situations are real and exist right here in our community. You have probably heard about them, read about them in the newspaper, or indeed, you know someone who is living them. If you are like me, you care deeply about the impact of these conditions on people’s physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health and ultimately on the health of the community.

With your help, we can work to bring about change — change that will renew people’s hope and faith in themselves and in their community. Imagine what we can do together!