Nanaimo Association for Community Living
@nanaimoacl.bsky.social
Since 1986, envisioning "A world where all people with diversabilities thrive."
Learn more about us at: www.nanaimoacl.com
Learn more about us at: www.nanaimoacl.com
NACL is honoured to introduce the Barry Award for excellence in inclusive employment, which we’ll give every year to either an individual or entity that exemplifies commitment to those values. This year was particularly special…see the next comment in this thread for why! 🏆❤️🎉🎉🎉
November 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
NACL is honoured to introduce the Barry Award for excellence in inclusive employment, which we’ll give every year to either an individual or entity that exemplifies commitment to those values. This year was particularly special…see the next comment in this thread for why! 🏆❤️🎉🎉🎉
Are you ready to sing, or hear others sing? 🎤🎶 If so, we’ve got the PERFECT #SocialNight for you at #ActionsDayProgram tomorrow night from 6-8! $5 admission gets you a drink and snack at our very own #KaraokeNight - so come join us for a fun evening of wonderful warbling!!! 🤩🎉 #Karaoke #Social
November 13, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Are you ready to sing, or hear others sing? 🎤🎶 If so, we’ve got the PERFECT #SocialNight for you at #ActionsDayProgram tomorrow night from 6-8! $5 admission gets you a drink and snack at our very own #KaraokeNight - so come join us for a fun evening of wonderful warbling!!! 🤩🎉 #Karaoke #Social
Happy Wednesday, everyone! Here’s a few pix from #PortsmouthRoadHome to brighten your day - first with WK enjoying NACL’s #SnoezelenRoom and lunch at @bin4burgerlounge, plus a sighting of both Eeyore (Amanda) and Snow White (JS) from Halloween! 🍂🍁❤️ #FallFun #Snoezelen #Costumes
November 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Happy Wednesday, everyone! Here’s a few pix from #PortsmouthRoadHome to brighten your day - first with WK enjoying NACL’s #SnoezelenRoom and lunch at @bin4burgerlounge, plus a sighting of both Eeyore (Amanda) and Snow White (JS) from Halloween! 🍂🍁❤️ #FallFun #Snoezelen #Costumes
For all the rights and freedoms we're so fortunate to have because of you, we thank all who have served and continue to serve our country. Honouring your bravery and sacrifice on the 11th day of the 11th month each year, our Admin office and day services are closed on Tuesday. 🌺❤ #LestWeForget
November 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
For all the rights and freedoms we're so fortunate to have because of you, we thank all who have served and continue to serve our country. Honouring your bravery and sacrifice on the 11th day of the 11th month each year, our Admin office and day services are closed on Tuesday. 🌺❤ #LestWeForget
It was a #Thriller DAY (not just night!) last Friday as we enjoyed the traditional annual Halloween party 🎃🎉 at #Actions! As you can see, MG from #MaxeyRoadHome was OWNING the dance floor with that song in his AMAZING pirate 🏴☠️ costume! 💀🖤 #Halloween #Halloween2025 #Spooktacular
November 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
It was a #Thriller DAY (not just night!) last Friday as we enjoyed the traditional annual Halloween party 🎃🎉 at #Actions! As you can see, MG from #MaxeyRoadHome was OWNING the dance floor with that song in his AMAZING pirate 🏴☠️ costume! 💀🖤 #Halloween #Halloween2025 #Spooktacular
On Wednesday October 22, NACL #EmploymentServices hosted its first ever employment mini-expo! We were super excited to host employers, job seekers, NACL staff, and community for an afternoon of awesome employment-themed activities! 🤩💼🎉🎉🎉 #Employment #InclusiveEmployment #Showcase
November 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
On Wednesday October 22, NACL #EmploymentServices hosted its first ever employment mini-expo! We were super excited to host employers, job seekers, NACL staff, and community for an afternoon of awesome employment-themed activities! 🤩💼🎉🎉🎉 #Employment #InclusiveEmployment #Showcase
2/2: It might be fall, but farm work never ends at #EvanmorrAcres! 🚜❤️ Here’s some pix of the #GoAndGrow group adding leaf mulch to the garlic beds, + some fall scenes on the farm showing the benefits of wood mulch in our perennial plot - the fungi are flourishing! 🍄🍄🟫 #FarmLife #Mulching #Mushrooms
November 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
2/2: It might be fall, but farm work never ends at #EvanmorrAcres! 🚜❤️ Here’s some pix of the #GoAndGrow group adding leaf mulch to the garlic beds, + some fall scenes on the farm showing the benefits of wood mulch in our perennial plot - the fungi are flourishing! 🍄🍄🟫 #FarmLife #Mulching #Mushrooms
1/2: It might be fall, but farm work never ends at #EvanmorrAcres! 🚜❤️ Here’s some pix of the #GoAndGrow group adding leaf mulch to the garlic beds, + some fall scenes on the farm showing the benefits of wood mulch in our perennial plot - the fungi are flourishing! 🍄🍄🟫 #FarmLife #Mulching #Mushrooms
November 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
1/2: It might be fall, but farm work never ends at #EvanmorrAcres! 🚜❤️ Here’s some pix of the #GoAndGrow group adding leaf mulch to the garlic beds, + some fall scenes on the farm showing the benefits of wood mulch in our perennial plot - the fungi are flourishing! 🍄🍄🟫 #FarmLife #Mulching #Mushrooms
Are you joining us for NACL’s Thursday #SocialNight? Tomorrow from 6-8 at Actions (83 Victoria Crescent) we’ll have a movie 🎥 and games 🎲 to keep you entertained - $5 admission includes a drink and snack, so see you there and let’s have some fun!!! 🤩🎉 #Social #MovieNight #BoardGames
November 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Are you joining us for NACL’s Thursday #SocialNight? Tomorrow from 6-8 at Actions (83 Victoria Crescent) we’ll have a movie 🎥 and games 🎲 to keep you entertained - $5 admission includes a drink and snack, so see you there and let’s have some fun!!! 🤩🎉 #Social #MovieNight #BoardGames
Here at #CathersLakeHome, the kiddos really enjoy Halloween. They love carving pumpkins 🎃 and decorating the house with bats. 🦇 But the scariest of them all? Halloween themed food! They worked hard to get pumpkin shaped pizza and beef shaped into a bat. Oh boy, was it delicious! 😋🖤 #EERIEsistable
November 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Here at #CathersLakeHome, the kiddos really enjoy Halloween. They love carving pumpkins 🎃 and decorating the house with bats. 🦇 But the scariest of them all? Halloween themed food! They worked hard to get pumpkin shaped pizza and beef shaped into a bat. Oh boy, was it delicious! 😋🖤 #EERIEsistable
If this isn't living your best life, we don't know what is! Here's a few pictures of DF from #HomeShare on his recent cruise to Alaska! 🛳❤ #Cruising #Vacation #MakingMemories
November 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
If this isn't living your best life, we don't know what is! Here's a few pictures of DF from #HomeShare on his recent cruise to Alaska! 🛳❤ #Cruising #Vacation #MakingMemories
2/2: Hope you all had a SPOOKTACULAR weekend! Here’s some GHOULtiful memories from #KennedyHome’s Halloween party on Friday! 🎃💀🕷️🧙♀️👻🎉 #Halloween #Halloween2025 #SpookySeason
November 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
2/2: Hope you all had a SPOOKTACULAR weekend! Here’s some GHOULtiful memories from #KennedyHome’s Halloween party on Friday! 🎃💀🕷️🧙♀️👻🎉 #Halloween #Halloween2025 #SpookySeason
1/2: Hope you all had a SPOOKTACULAR weekend! Here’s some GHOULtiful memories from #KennedyHome’s Halloween party on Friday! 🎃💀🕷️🧙♀️👻🎉 #Halloween #Halloween2025 #SpookySeason
November 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
1/2: Hope you all had a SPOOKTACULAR weekend! Here’s some GHOULtiful memories from #KennedyHome’s Halloween party on Friday! 🎃💀🕷️🧙♀️👻🎉 #Halloween #Halloween2025 #SpookySeason
#HappyHalloween from NACL’s #AdminTeam! 💀🖤🎉🎉🎉 Have a EERIEsistably SPOOKTACULAR day!!! #Halloween #Halloween2025 #StaySpooky
October 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
#HappyHalloween from NACL’s #AdminTeam! 💀🖤🎉🎉🎉 Have a EERIEsistably SPOOKTACULAR day!!! #Halloween #Halloween2025 #StaySpooky
Are you all ready for Halloween tomorrow? Lily was helping us with decorating for it down at the Admin Office… 💀🖤🎉🎉🎉 #DogsOfNACL #SpookySeason #Halloween2025
October 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Are you all ready for Halloween tomorrow? Lily was helping us with decorating for it down at the Admin Office… 💀🖤🎉🎉🎉 #DogsOfNACL #SpookySeason #Halloween2025
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
October 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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
October 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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
October 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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
October 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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
October 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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
October 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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
October 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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
October 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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
October 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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
October 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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