About Us

KW Habilitation is a local non-profit dedicated to creating a community where everyone belongs and participates. We provide a wide range of services to children with special needs youth and adults with developmental disabilities.

Our Approach

Our approach is centred on the belief that a good life is fostered through early learning, inclusive living, and community involvement. We are committed to fostering a person-directed culture and helping people realize their full potential.

Our History

Our organization was founded more than 50 years ago by local families and community groups who wanted to find a place to meet their children’s needs. The legacy of their hard work and collaboration continues to shape our mission today.

The values we stand by (equity, choice, inclusion, and collaboration) are the same ones that brought our community together all those years ago and are still at the heart of how we operate today.

Our Leadership Team

KW Habilitation has over 500 employees who work directly with more than 1,000 people and their families in Waterloo Region.

Our Board of Directors

Our Board of Directors is made up of people from the community with a passion for ensuring that we live in a community where everyone belongs and participates. If you are interested in joining our Board, please reach out to Cherylyn Sawatzky to learn about opportunities to participate.

Quality Assurance

As an Agency, KW Habilitation is concerned about the quality of the work we do. In addition, we see the new legislation for our sector, the “Services and Supports to Promote the Social Inclusion of Persons with Developmental Disabilities Act, 2008” and the associated regulations (e.g., Ontario Regulation 299/10 “Quality Assurance Measures”; Ontario Regulation 276/10 “General”) as a call to take the field of developmental services to a new level of quality and innovation.

Supporting the Agency in promoting the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services, long term vision of “A Journey to Belonging” with regards to empowering people in making choices and living as independently as possible through the continued development of person-directed supports.

KW Habilitation’s Quality Assurance initiatives were established not only to help us assess how well we are doing what we say we are doing, but also to identify how we can do things better!

This is achieved by:

Promoting responsive supports and services for people and their families
Planning, implementing and evaluating quality assurance activities for the entire Agency in collaboration with people supported, families, staff and other stakeholders
Ensuring legislative and MCCSS Compliance standards are met and maintained within policies, procedures and practices
Providing ongoing staff training and Agency orientations for new employees

KW Habilitation is committed to continuously learning as an organization. Feedback from people involved with KW Habilitation helps us improve the supports we provide.

If you have feedback or a complaint, please fill out the form below:

We are proud members and partners of several different organization including:

Territory Acknowledgement:

For more than 50 years, KW Habilitation has been growing, working, helping and living, along the Haldimand tract, land promised to the Haudenosaunee people of Six Nations, which includes six miles on each side of the Grand River. This land is traditional Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe and Chonnonton Territory.

We give thanks to and acknowledge their enduring presence, achievements and contributions to our community both here and all across Turtle Island. We are grateful to the original keepers of the land for looking after the rich resources and cultural teachings so they can be shared with us today and with future generations. We will continue to work with, include and collaborate with the original stewards of the land and promise to continue to build a community where everyone belongs and participates.