Disability Services Workers
What Is Expected From WIN Employees?
Disability Support Workers wear many hats! They are truly Essential But Forgotten heroes in the lives of persons living with disabilities. Do you know what they do in a day?
Creating Excellence Together (CET) Accreditation
Together, we achieve more! Today, May 16, 2022, the WIN staff were treated to a Dairy Queen icecream cake to celebrate our accomplishment of achieving 100% of the CET standards on our recent survey. Our board chair, Donna Fleming joined the meeting to celebrate our success, and she read us a lovely poem by Ella […]
Essential But Forgotten
The Alberta Disability Workers Association (ADWA) is a provincial advocacy organization for all people employed in Community Disability Services who provide essential services to Albertans with disabilities. Alberta’s Community Disability Services are in a staffing crisis. Workers paid to support people with disabilities have not seen a wage increase since 2014 (despite an increase in […]
Disability Workers Wage Increase Campaign
Please click on the link to see the press conference from Wednesday, May 13, 2020 on the ADWA Facebook page. If you are not a disability support worker, or a family member of individuals who require services, you have a vested interest to get involved. Please participate and help our professional workforce get the recognition […]