Community Living Victoria

ACCREDITATION

CLV Receives 3-year Accreditation Award

On June 25, 26, and 27^th, 2007, surveyors from the CARF Accrediting body came and visited the offices, homes and programs of CLV and awarded the three-year accreditation, the highest level. The following are some of their comments from the final report:

Community Living Victoria demonstrates strengths in the following areas:

CLV is complimented for it’s advocacy efforts for persons with disabilities at a political level as well as supporting persons to advocate for themselves. Strong advocacy examples include a high school advocacy group and it’s video presentations, an active self advocacy group and a collection of newspaper articles, letters and stories demonstrating advocacy initiatives;

CLV provides excellent community living services in a variety of locations that meet the needs of persons served. Homes are attractively decorated, individualized and well maintained;
CLV offers a wide variety of opportunities for individuals to participate in community, including: work, volunteering, dances, horseback riding, vacations, festivals, celebrations and sports;
CLV demonstrates a strong awareness and respect of individuals;
CLV helps persons establish valued roles within community as volunteers;
CLV has a excellent transition plan for homes and programs who are new to the agency;
CLV offers an innovative opportunity for individuals to live as independently as possible in their community, through the supported apartment program;
CLV received “exemplary” conformance for efforts to present information about rights in a variety of ways to ensure understanding. This includes the Consumer Handbook and Rights Now video

Frequently Asked Questions!

You may have heard the term floating around, but do you know what Accreditation is?

What is it?

Accreditation is a formal process of organizational development and review. Once the process is completed, it identifies that an agency has met organizational and program/service standards of practice. Accreditation focuses on the quality of services delivered, accountability, and overall organizational competence.

Who will be accredited?

As part of the BC Government’s Ministry of Children and Family Development project, all Society’s that receive in excess of $500,000 in funding from the Ministry, must go through this accreditation process in order to continue with their contracts.

Why be accredited?

It just makes sense. Being accredited means that an agency has met international standards of practice that are developed by impartial consumers, stakeholders, professionals, and provincial and national organizations. Being an accredited agency means that the agency provides services and programs that meet or exceed industry standards. It makes the agency accountable for the services they provide.

What are the benefits of accreditation?

Identifies organizations in which consumers can have confidence;
Provides evidence to the community that the organization providing service has met high standards of operation;
Identifies for private and public funders, organizations that are worthy of financial support;
Generates information upon which an effective organizational referral system can be built;
Establishes a framework for continual oranizational improvement; and,
Protects the organization against pressures to lower standards.

Celebrating the end of 2007 Accreditation