Vision & Values

Vision

Excellence in Knowledge Exchange

Mission

Safeguards Training for Children and Adult Services is a unique collaborative partnership dedicated to providing culturally-sensitive knowledge exchange to improve the well-being of vulnerable children, youth, adults, families and communities through activities that offer:

Skill Improvement:  Enriching the skills of service providers to improve the delivery of services by workers and families to safeguard against all forms of abuse.

 New and Innovative Approaches:  Providing the most current information and effective innovations in training delivery to service providers.

Professional Development:  Advancing professional development by providing education and learning opportunities to professionals, support service providers, licensing / accreditation bodies and stakeholders.

Management Development:  Providing training and ongoing skill development to supervisors, managers and other leaders to advance the quality of leadership.

Values 

The following were identified during the last strategic planning process as the principles or values that would guide Safeguards’ work.  

 Accessible and Affordable: Continually enhancing accessibility to training through offering a variety of training delivery methods and providing training that is affordable.

 Excellence: Ensuring that our training programs are based on sound research and are evidently valuable and relevant to participants.

Innovative and Practical: Ensuring ongoing innovation in our training programs and their practical application in meeting the needs of the participants.

 Responsive and Flexible: Providing training that is responsive and flexible to the range of needs of the sectors served collectively and individually.

 Culturally Relevant: Providing training that is relevant to aboriginal communities, and actively responds to the changing ethnocultural perspectives of our communities.

Accountable: Being accountable to our stakeholders for our decisions, use of resources and outcomes.