Community Life

The OMHM promotes a variety of community initiatives as part of its desire to help tenants create a quality living environment.

Stimulating Initiatives

The OMHM has helped build a rich community life over the past 20 years meeting the multiple needs of its different social housing tenants. The OMHM is committed to projects that support tenants taking responsibility for their communities. Such efforts are rooted in their living environment and have positive benefits for the surrounding neighbourhood.

The OMHM believes that social and community development start at home, in the apartment complex. These complexes also give rising to a vast range of exciting community initiatives:

  • Youth centres
  • Seniors' services
  • Drop-in daycares
  • Services for single-parent mothers
  • Community kitchens for numerous families
  • Sheltered workshops for individuals with cognitive deficiencies
  • Many other activities

The Community-Based Approach: Connecting with People Where They Live

We all know that the best programs are tailored to the community's needs. A community-based approach puts social workers in the living environment so that they can work for and with resident families and gradually build the trust needed to endure the success of social housing efforts.

This approach is both personal and collective in orientation. It favours good, non-judgemental listening skills, mutual respect, flexibility in adapting to changing community needs and other factors. 

Local Development Within Each Borough

The OMHM is active in many of the island's municipalities and boroughs. It is a key player in the social development of different neighbourgoods, in conjunction with community assocations. It is also involved in meetings of various sectoral issue groups and can create community centres and use its resources to meet community needs.

At a time of difficult access to public funding and growing numbers of social issues, resource pooling and cooperation from other social and government stakeholders is crucial to community development. The OMHM is proud to be part of this process.

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