Vision & Values
What the Cridge Centre is All About
Our rich history, dynamic present and exciting future are focused on helping children, families and adults discover new paths to growth and independence.
Our Vision:
Abundant Life
Our Mission:
Providing excellence in support, housing, education, and community, we work together to restore hope and a future to those overcoming the challenges before them.
Our Values:
Act justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly.
Our Purpose
Consistent with the principles taught by Jesus Christ and seeking to manifest His love, we commit to rendering aid and service to children, adults and families by:
- Providing childcare to children in the community through supervised, structured programs to help their personal development, and to advance education by operating programs and activities;
- Assisting women and children who have experienced family violence and abuse move from crisis and instability to self-sufficiency, personal safety and stability by providing them with support programs such as transitional housing, counselling, support groups, and access to other community services;
- Relieving poverty by providing low and moderate-income families and those who are poor or needy with affordable housing and with programs to support them with life necessities;
- Promoting health and wellbeing by providing respite services and resources to families of children with disabilities;
- Promoting health and wellbeing by providing survivors of braininjury with housing and other support services to enable them to achieve their highest possible level of independent living, including assistance in daily tasks, health management, skills training, employment opportunities, and community involvement;
- Relieving conditions attributable to being aged by providing specially adapted residential accommodation, incidental facilities, and support to seniors;
- Providing youth in need who are young parents or at risk of homelessness with supports, mentoring and resources including counseling and advocacy to ensure their basic needs are met and to enable them to pursue education, employment and safe affordable housing;
- Undertaking activities ancillary and incidental to the attainment of the above charitable purposes.
We acknowledge with respect that this is the traditional territory of the Lək̓ʷəŋən -speaking peoples, known today as the Songhees First Nation, Xwsepsəm First Nation, as well as the WSÁNEĆ Nations and Sc’ianew First Nation, original caretakers of this land. As they continue walking here gently in the way of their ancestors, we seek to do the same.
We recognize that reconciliation is not only about the past, but about how we live together today. As a Christian faith-based organization, we commit to ongoing learning, listening, and acting in ways that uphold Indigenous self-determination and dignity, and reflect the biblical teachings of peace, justice, and love.
