The Coldest Night of the Year is a winterrific family-friendly fundraising walk in support of local charities. Let’s change the tune for people experiencing hurt, hunger, and homelessness... because it’s cold out there. Join us on February 22, 2025 - team up, fundraise, and walk with us!
ABOUT SOARING EAGLE SUPPORT SOCIETY (SESS)
SOARING EAGLE SUPPORT SOCIETY
Providing housing stability to people who are homeless or hard-to-house, giving them the opportunity to transition to a better life.
Our Vision: A community where everyone has a safe, secure place to call home.
OUR VALUES:
Compassion: We genuinely care about the wellbeing of others through relationships based on empathy, respect, and dignity.
Flexibility: We adjust our behaviours and routines to respond effectively to the demands of different people and situations.
Teamwork: We combine the strengths and skills of others to maximize the value we bring to the people we serve.
Continuous Learning : We promote regular reflection and strive to improve through personal and professional development.
Innovation: We choose to incorporate new, unique, creative, and better ways to help our clients heal and grow.
Our Goals and Objectives
- Safe, Affordable Accommodations
- Community Awareness and Participation
- Effective Program and Services
- A Strong, Stable Team
Soaring Eagle Support Society (SESS) provides housing stability to people who are homeless or hard-to-house, giving them the opportunity to transition to a better life. We are a Charitable Society directed by a board who are passionate about reducing risk to those who are homeless, underhoused and hard-to-house. Using a “Housing First” focus, SESS provides supported Transitional Housing and Outreach in Whitecourt Alberta - with the purpose to assist individuals to obtain and retain safe appropriate housing while addressing their many challenges.
Our rural community is diverse and small. We serve the adults who do not have confidence or competency to access the typical resources. We come along side people who are alone, despairing, and not receiving aid. Our clients are often invisible or repulsive to other community members. We educate the community and facilitate healthy integration. We collaborate with health and social services workers. We facilitate our clients to establish relationships with medical practitioners, support groups and counsellors.
Our Transitional Housing facility provides a safe affordable place for individuals to re-group and focus on their well-being. Our Outreach supports help folks obtain and retain their housing. Studies show that housing folks reduces the overuse of hospitals, clinics, shelters, police and court systems. All of this leads to healthier individuals and a healthier community. One of the outstanding outcomes of our two programs is the peer-encouragement clients give to each other; Boomers, Millennials and Zoomers all promote each other’s wellness.
The volunteers who work with us include seniors as well as high school students and college practicum students.
We welcome donations from various places who want to provide for the poor and afflicted.
And this is why we Walk!! join us for our Coldest Night of the Year Fundraising Campaign as we raise funds for the Homeless and Hurting in our community.
Meet us at Home Hardware Parking Lot!
We'll have Tents, a Firepit, Heaters and Chairs
The CNOY Team Participant & Donor Services
Toll Free 1.877.743.3413 / Phone 519.603.2250
Email whitecourt@cnoy.org