Accredited with Exemplary Standing!

Announcement

Unison is now “Accredited with Exemplary Standing” by Accreditation Canada!

An onsite review using Qmentum standards was conducted by external surveyors on September 17-20 2018. This review looked at everything from board governance and leadership, to care and services, to infrastructure.

Here are a few highlights of the comments from the final report:

  • The Board is commended for their passion and leadership in guiding Unison in times of change.
  • [Community partner organizations] described many strengths of Unison, including skills in gauging community needs, responsiveness, strong leadership that spreads throughout the organization, respect of agencies, client-focused, learning organization, curious and always changing and growing to meet the needs of the community.
  • The staff at Unison are passionate about respectful, responsive and best possible services for clients and their neighbourhoods.

A big thank you to the many Unison staff and members of the board who worked intensively over several years to assess ourselves against the Qmentum standards, identify areas for improvement and implement activities to actually improve. Thanks to the representatives of community partner organizations who took time to participate in a focus group and give feedback about working with Unison. Thanks also to community members and clients in the Client Engagement Task Force and the Qmentum Primary Care and Community Health Services Group, who shared their ideas with us, and contributed to this success.

An Executive Summary of the final report is now available for review at the following link – Unison Qmentum Accreditation Report 

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