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Volunteer Referral and Registration available for individual community members looking for volunteer positions in the Comox Valley. If you would like to schedule an appointment with one of our Volunteer Advisors, please contact our office to begin the referral process. Our Volunteer Advisors are trained at assessing an individuals needs and skills to ensure that you are comfortable and understand the process of becoming a volunteer and what it means to our community.

Tabitha ShawOnce again, National Volunteer Week has wrapped up and served as a reminder to thank all of the wonderful individuals who contribute so much to the Comox Valley. To celebrate the occasion, Volunteer Comox Valley hosted its second Impact Awards - an appreciation event at Zocalo Cafe in recognition of the outstanding volunteers in our community. The event included laughter, tears, hugs, great food, a musical performance by Schiehallion – and the representing winner of each category took home a framed award print. The Volunteer Impact Awards serves to inspire others to contribute to our community.

L'Arche Comox Valley is a community of people with and without developmental disabilites sharing life together and celebrating the unique value of each person, revealing each other's gifts and recognizing our need for one another.L'Arche is a faith-based society and as such its values of compassion, inclusion, respect for diversity and the dignity of the individual are shared Canadian values. It has no affiliation with any church or religious community and welcomes all from any belief and ethnic background into its communities.

Welcome to L'Arche Comox Valley!L'Arche Comox Valley is a community of people with and without developmental disabilities sharing their lives together. In L'Arche we live, work, pray and learn from one another. We are invited to share fully in community life, to live a life that's unique and help each other to discover one's hidden gifts.L'Arche Comox Valley has a home Jubilee House , in Courtenay, British Columbia, a supported independent living program, for people living on their own and an Outreach and Creative Art Centre where people come to participate in different activites such as beading, painting, and candle making.L'Arche is an international organization founded 50 years ago in France. L'Arche began in Canada in 1969, and local educational leader Lock Mawhinney and a group of dedicated volunteers created L'Arche Comox Valley in 2000.

Advocacy for individuals having issues with:MSD issues: social assistance, disability, PWD, tribunals and appeals, discrimination.CPP:pension, survivor's benefits, SAFERS.Landlord-Tenancy:mediation, dispute resolution hearings, rental, repairs, eviction.In addition, issues involving Employment Standards, debt, and utilities such as phone and hydro.Business Incubator Centre:Open to women of Aboriginal descent, including Status, Non-Status, Metis and Inuit women, this program is designed for those interested in starting a small business, or in the early stages of business operations.The program includes business training, one-to-one mentoring and fully furnished office space and equipment including phone, computer, printer, fax and copy services.All services are FREE.Provides support to elders in the community including weekly Elders lunch, transportation to medical and other appointments, to multi-community dinners and lunches, and to cultural and special events in the central Vancouver Island region

We visited several farms and community gardens to observe and participate in gathering ingredients and the evaluation of food production. Daily preparation and harvest of healthy in season snacks and lunches each day and prepared for the creation of a full meal for all of their families on Friday. We also prepared sprouting kits for each family with the motivation of providing nutritional boot to any meal. A visit from a local yogurt company was a great education opportunity for the participants to learn about the process of making yogurt while anticipating our yummy creations. Thank you to Amara Farm, Sea View Game, CV Farmers Market, Tree Island Yougurt for supporting the Young Cooks! And a special thank you to United Way for funding our summer camp program!Our after school program will start once schools get back into to session, start date TBA. In the mean time check out our community kitchens and gardens workshops as they are open to youth and families.