2000
Community Integration
For 48 years REDI operated a workshop that offered disabled person’s the opportunity to work in an accessible and supervised environment to help support the community they live in. The decision was made to close the workshops because we wanted to broaden our definition of community form the segregated facilities and living environments. The change was intended to shift disabled persons being ‘in’ the community to being ‘of’ the community. Our clients began to work, volunteer, participate in leisure activities, shop, and play in the same venue as other community members.
