Windsor Family Homes and Community Partnerships was founded in the 1970s to address the growing socio-economic challenges in the City of Windsor.
Since its inception, the organization has continually grown and evolved to best meet the community’s needs.
Today, it manages over 120 affordable rental units across Windsor and offers a range of support programs for both tenants and the broader community.
Windsor Family Homes and Community Partnerships is dedicated to making a positive impact through its social housing and support services, programs that encourage children and families to be active and socially connected, and meeting basic needs via its food bank. By building partnerships and pathways to positive outcomes for its tenants and the community, the organization remains committed to its mission.
Our Mission
To provide, safe, affordable housing and support services for individuals and families, with a focus on nurturing children through nutrition, education, and recreation programs.
Our Vision
To have a community where everyone is able to thrive in a safe and affordable home.
Values
- Provide Dignified Housing and Tenancies
By providing affordable and safe housing as well as support services, we strive to ensure that our tenants can live safely and with dignity. We strive to provide supports and services to them when they face challenges. - Community Partnership and Collaboration
Partnerships and collaborations are at the core of what we do. We cannot be successful without our partners. We actively seek opportunities to build, strengthen and maintain partnerships to support our tenants and clients as well as our organization. - Equity, Compassion and Resiliency
We recognize that not everyone’s journey is the same. Each tenant, client and employee have unique strengths and face different challenges. We approach supporting our community from a position of equity and compassion, doing our best to meet people where they are and help them build resiliency.
- Accountable
We are accountable to our community, partners, clients, tenants and funders maintaining transparency in our operations. We strive to be responsible and perceptive of their needs and changing circumstances, but we will not tolerate creating unsafe environments for our staff, partners or community members. We attempt to build trust through consistent communication, ensuring avenues for feedback and continuous improvement as an organization. - Innovation and Adaptability
We recognize that given the challenges facing our community, clients and tenants that the status quo is not sustainable. We are committed to trying new approaches to tackling challenges; gathering input from tenants and clients and building new ways of working with our partners and community. We will learn from each activity we undertake and use it to improve moving forward.
