Your Place Victoria demonstrates how a professional business can play a meaningful role in long-term addictions recovery by connecting employment, responsibility and community impact.
A social enterprise by Our Place Society, Your Place is a full-service landscape maintenance company serving homeowners, strata communities, property managers and organizations across Greater Victoria.
The company hires people coming out of Our Place Society’s New Roads Therapeutic Recovery Program. After completing long-term addictions recovery, employees step into meaningful, living-wage work with professional expectations, team accountability and real responsibility.
The model is deliberately commercial. Your Place competes for customers, delivers professional landscape maintenance and expects its crews to meet the same standards clients would expect from any premier landscaping company. Team members are trained and supervised by industry professionals and work together in crews.
Your Place is the long-term employment step in Our Place Society’s Pathway of Support, which supports people from striving to thriving. Stable, living-wage work with full benefits is what helps that progress last.
More than 170 Greater Victoria clients have now hired Your Place, providing ample evidence that professional service and social impact can successfully exist within the same business model.
For local businesses, strata councils and property managers, the model offers a practical choice. They receive reliable, professionally managed lawn care, garden care, hedging and seasonal clean-ups, and the same contract supports stable local employment.
“Recovery doesn’t end when treatment ends,” said Paul Latour, General Manager of Your Place Victoria. “Meaningful work, responsibility and the opportunity to contribute are important parts of building a stable life. Business can play a real role in that.”
Your Place is also part of a broader vision. Our Place Society is exploring how this model could grow into an ecosystem of social enterprises, creating additional pathways from long-term recovery into meaningful employment, stability and contribution.
Learn more at yourplacevictoria.ca.