Nanaimo Association for Community Living

Wear your costume a day early (if you like) and come to our NACL #SocialNight #HalloweenDanceParty tomorrow evening - Thursday, October 30th - from 6-8 p.m. at Actions! $5 admission gets you a hot dog and drink while you enjoy a THRILLER evening of music, dancing, and fun! 👻🎶🎉🎉🎉 #HalloweenParty

How cool is it that we can quickly hop on a ferry ⛴️ to Vancouver to see professional sports games and come home the same day? Here’s BS from #PortsmouthRoadHome catching a #WhitecapsFC game via #HulloFerries back on October 5th! ⚽️🎉 #GameDay #MainlandAdventure #Soccer #VancouverWhitecaps

Here’s another gathering we were part of earlier this month in Kelowna, supporting #CloudMastersComputing at the CSSEA conference to promote the upcoming information management system Power Compass Pro! 🤩👍 #Conference #TradeShow #Networking

It’s #ConferenceSeason, and NACL’s been right into it! Here’s Dawn, Peter, and Matt at the #AutismExpo on Sunday… 🤩👍 #Conference #InTheCommunity #Networking

At #TurnerConnectionHome, we’re getting excited for hockey season again. As you can see, we’re MORE than ready to cheer on our #NanaimoClippers!!! 🏒🥅🎉🎉🎉 #GoClippersGo #SportsFans #LiteralGoals

Monday mornings can ONLY be made better by having #PuppyEnergy at the #AdminOffice! Meet Indy, who’s a bounding bundle of fluffy joy from #NorthernHopeDogRescue - and we have a feeling we’ll be seeing him a LOT around here as he grows into a big sweet doggo! 🐶❤️ #LuckyUs #DogsOfNACL #PuppyLove

If you’re near the Vancouver Island Conference Centre, that’s where you’ll find NACL and the Home Hospice Association until tomorrow at the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association conference - ready to talk about end-of-life care for people with diversabilities… 🫶💐 #LetsTalkAboutIt

3/3: A couple weeks ago we had our 2nd annual #Squashtober at #EvanmorrAcres, where we celebrated this year's bounty of squash and enjoyed a baked potato bar, crafts, helped with harvesting, and more! Stay tuned for more memories to come from this awesome day! 🎃🎉🎉🎉 #FarmFun #Pumpkins #Squash

2/3: A couple weeks ago we had our 2nd annual #Squashtober at #EvanmorrAcres, where we celebrated this year's bounty of squash and enjoyed a baked potato bar, crafts, helped with harvesting, and more! Stay tuned for more memories to come from this awesome day! 🎃🎉🎉🎉 #FarmFun #Pumpkins #Squash

1/3: A couple weeks ago we had our 2nd annual #Squashtober at #EvanmorrAcres, where we celebrated this year's bounty of squash and enjoyed a baked potato bar, crafts, helped with harvesting, and more! Stay tuned for more memories to come from this awesome day! 🎃🎉🎉🎉 #FarmFun #Pumpkins #Squash

NACL is partnering with the Home Hospice Association this week/weekend at the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association conference, showcasing our paired relationship on providing end-of-life care to persons with diversabilities. 🫶 #CommunityInvolvement #EndOfLife #CompassionateCare

Pumpkin carving 🎃 and a fun movie 🍿 (“How to Train Your Dragon” 🐉)? We’ve got it for you at tomorrow’s #ThursdayNightSocial at Actions (83 Victoria Creacent, Nanaimo)! $5 admission includes a drink and snack ticket, and more can be bought at the concession. See you there! 🤩👍 #SocialNight #GoodTimes

It’s FREE ADMISSION, and there’ll be treats - so come support this awesome event! #InclusiveEmployment #Expo #Learning #Networking

It’s TODAY!!! NACL #EmploymentServices invites everyone to come see us from 3-7 p.m. at the Beban Social Centre for our first Inclusive Employment Mini-Expo! 🤩👍 We’ll have inclusive employment resources, an Employment Cafe, resource demonstrations, a self-employment showcase, and more!

Sending this “save the date” for Lorraine’s #CelebrationOfLife at #ActionsDayProgram (83 Victoria Crescent) on Saturday, November 1st from 1-3 p.m. Please RSVP to Alyx at (778) 268-6419 if you’d like to come honour this lovely lady, who touched many hearts in her time with NACL… 💐💕 #WeMissYou

It’s fall, hockey season is BACK, and we’re here for it! 🏒🥅 Here’s DK and SS from #KennedyHome at the #NanaimoClippers game a couple weeks ago! 🤩👍 #FallFun #Hockey #GameOn

Flashing back to #ActionsDayProgram’s award-winning scarecrow submission for the VIEX, Jolene! 🎃🥇 Big shoutout to NS for her creativity and execution and TMV for fastening all the zip ties, with Actions staff helping complete the final touches! Way to go! 👏❤️ #Teamwork #Scarecrow #1stPlace

Here’s the actual event poster, folks! On October 22nd from 3-7 p.m. at the Beban Social Centre, NACL is hosting its first ever Inclusive Employment Mini-Expo! Join us for a fun afternoon focused on inclusive and accessible employment! 🤩👍 #SpeedHiring #InclusiveEmployment #DEAM #DEAM2025

On October 22nd from 3-7 p.m. at the Beban Social Centre, NACL is hosting its first ever Inclusive Employment Mini-Expo! Join us for a fun afternoon focused on inclusive and accessible employment! 🤩👍 #SpeedHiring #InclusiveEmployment #DEAM #DEAM2025

Here’s a few pix of JS from #PortsmouthRoadHome from “Down Under” at the Port Theatre!🕺🏻🪩🎉🎉🎉 #AustraliasThunderFromDownUnder #PortTheatre #Showtime

We’re so excited for this and eager to help with both setup and takedown! NACL is so grateful for the Rotary Club of Nanaimo’s support. 📚❤️

Thanks so much to our in-person and online cheering squads seeing our two brave bosses TOSSED! They may have wobbly legs but 😂❤️ we’re ridiculously proud of them both! See you again next year!!! 🥰🙌🥰🙌🥰 #TossTheBoss #TTB2025 #WayToGoSeanAndRandy

And in full 80’s tracksuit glory, here’s RANDY ready to jump in a little under half an hour…come see us at #TossTheBoss at #WildPlay in support of the #NanaimoBrainInjurySociety!!! 🕺🏻🪩 #TossTheBoss #TossTheBoss2025 #JumpToIt

Have you ever seen a bat go over a bridge? 🦇🤩 Well, you will if you come see Sean give himself those extra wings to fly this afternoon at #TossTheBoss in an hour! We’ll see Randy’s costume reveal when we get there - so come help us cheer these guys on at WildPlay! 🥰🥰🥰 #TossTheBoss2025 #JumpToIt

Hi all - since we cant pre-program posts yet on Bluesky, we’ll be taking another short social media hiatus for the next week! Hope you all have a wonderful week leading up to Thanksgiving, and watch for us to come back full force after that! Thanks for your support/follows… 🤩❤️

Posting again because TODAY’S THE DAY our two bosses get tossed off the bridge at 2:48 and 2:54 p.m. for #TossTheBoss 2025 - so let’s get that NACL cheering squad big and bold to honour their bravery! Don’t be late - and donation links are still open if you’d still like to give! 🤩❤️ #JumpToIt

The theme of this year’s #NDEAM is Inclusive Employment Across Canada: Building a Workforce Without Barriers. Speaking of barriers, DID YOU KNOW: 74% of employees who have a disability face at least one barrier at work; 67% job seekers who have a disability face barriers before they’re even hired.

The #PortsmouthRoadHome team recently had a meeting over some pizza 🍕 and talked about communication and did some fun learning exercises before heading to EXIT Nanaimo to really test our team communication skills! 🤩👏 #TeamBuilding #ExitRoom #WorkingTogether

Starting today, NACL is celebrating National Disability Employment Awareness Month (#NDEAM), a national campaign that recognizes the contributions of people with a disability and promotes inclusive hiring practices. DID YOU KNOW: 1 in 4 Canadians have a disability? That’s nearly 8 million people!

Sean Enns Sean Enns is an integrated services manager with NACL. Sean is our spunky, fun, and whip-smart ISM who brings energy and passion to all he does. Known for his inclusive spirit and quick wit... Sean cr...

The donation links are still open until Friday, so thanks for supporting this great cause and honouring the bravery of these two bosses!

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