Distant Oak Support Services

What We Do

Distant Oak provides support and care for individuals with developmental disabilities and their families living on southern Vancouver Island. Distant Oak believes that for developmentally challenged people to reach their full potential for a happy and rich life they must become an integral part of the community.

Developmental disabilities are generally used to describe life-long impairments that are attributable to mental and/or physical disabilities. Some common examples of developmental disabilities are autism spectrum disorder (ASD), cerebral palsy, Down's Syndrome and Foetal Alcohol Syndrome. Although these are common developmental disabilities, an innumerable variety exist.

Why We Do It

· Distant Oak is committed to helping people who have complex behavioural and health needs.

· Distant Oak is committed to justice, fairness, honesty and equality for all members of the community that it works in.

· Distant Oak will to the best of its ability help people with developmental disabilities realize their hopes, dreams and goals.

How We Do It

One of the more important aspects of the support that Distant Oak offers is the setting that it is provided in: small rural communities. Like a family, in a small rural community everybody knows everybody and it is impossible to become anonymous; it is impossible to become one of the forgotten and thus fall between the cracks. The community is the family and the family cares about all its members