Members of the Nucleus Board, staff and partners came together for a night of reflection and celebration.

On Monday, June 26, 2023, Nucleus held its Annual General Meeting with Board members, staff and partners, for an evening of connection, reflections and celebrations.

Here are some highlights from the event:

• We heard from our keynote speaker, Dave Dame, on living with a physical disability and the unique obstacles he has had to face and overcome. He spoke of the need to always provide person-centred care that takes personal style, preferences and expectations into account, every time.
  
• Nucleus Founding Member Al Reeves, kicked off our 40th year anniversary celebration to tell his story of how Nucleus came to be and the evolution of the organization since 1983.
  
• We honoured our Long Service Award recipients, who have a combined tenure with Nucleus of over 200 years!!
• 5 years: Jignesh Dudhela, Rajkiran Ghatora, Nicola Mcnaught, Loreta Raymundo, Mildred Shere, Kelly LePage, Jolanta Bialek, Adewale Adeleke, Porchia Tjiramba, Mario Tolentino 
• 10 years: Allesia Mindley, Yvonne Adjei-Okyere, Lally Reuillon, Sandra Davis, Tien Ma, Janet Aluko
• 20 years: Mary Lindsay
• 30 years: Nelson Daquiz 
• 35 years: Leo Robinson
  

Values Inspired Person

This year we established a new award that recognizes an individual who demonstrates outstanding contributions to the organization and embodies our six values – integrity, compassion, collaboration, accountability, respect and excellence – every day.

The Nominations Committee evaluated all submissions, and awarded Oksana Yarymovych, SDL Attendant, who has been with Nucleus for 14 years. “Oksana is able to support her clients in challenging situations. She is a team player, who works together providing suggestions on how to improve the quality of care for her clients,” says Kenzie Greenhalgh, Care Team Lead. Congratulations are also in order for Nilmini Senewiratne and Griselia Alfaro for being the finalists of this year’s award. Together, all of these Attendants exemplify excellence every day.

Board Members

Thank you Ingrid!

We said goodbye to long-standing Board member, Ingrid Hann, who has been a integral part of the Board during her tenure.  Thank you Ingrid for your curiosity, commitment and support of Nucleus over the years. We wish you all the best and will miss you.

We welcomed new Board member Mark Vytvytskyy.  You can read more about Mark here.
We also unveiled our 2022-23 Annual Report.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to making the evening such a success! To the organizing committee, staff, Board, guests, speakers and partners, we thank you.