Foundations

Foundations is a flexible learning environment for young people between the ages of 13 and 21 whose needs exceed the services currently available in mainstream schools. The instructional mode is individualized and differentiated and aims at engaging the student in a variety of hands-on real life learning opportunities focused on building skills for the work place and post secondary training. Locations: Akwesasne, Brockville, Carleton Place, Cornwall, Gananoque, Prescott and Smiths Falls.

The on-site services include:
• A Child and Youth Worker who provides support and acts as a liaison with community agencies and services to promote personal growth and student success.
• A daycare centre where students may bring their children while they are attending school.
• A fully equipped kitchen that serves free breakfast and lunch for one dollar.
• An integrated-technologies workshop and an art room.

Two major premises underlie Foundations

1) students will be more successful if they have immediate professional support to assist them when they encounter barriers that interfere with the successful completion of a secondary school diploma and the progress towards reaching their full potential as contributing member of society

2) A safe, invitational, and supportive environment that addresses all their needs will have lasting effects on them and their children.

The campus is inclusive in two major areas: all students are integrated regardless of ability, grade level, age, background or economic status thereby reducing the stigmas often attached to students who have difficulty being successful in mainstream schools; all services are integrated so that the campus can address all aspects of a student’s life.

The key to success at Foundations is the individualized, integrated, student-centered learning environment and the amalgamation of services by dedicated community professionals. Foundations offers student as many opportunities as possible to earn a secondary school diploma, build personal strength, develop learning strategies and make a successful transition to work, and apprenticeship, further training, college or university.

For further information, please contact:

Lorayne Bradshaw, Vice-Principal
10 Ontario Street
Smiths Falls, ON K7A 4K7 

Telephone: 613-283-5418, ext 106
Fax: 613-283-5224

E-Mail: lorayne.bradshaw@ucdsb.on.ca