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Aurora-based organization CHATS \u2013 Community and Home Assistance to Seniors \u2013 is dedicated to serving local seniors both at, within and outside the home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, the organization and its passionate volunteers, were recognized by the Town of Aurora with the 2024 Inclusivity Award, part of the Town\u2019s annual Community Recognition Awards program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presented in Council Chambers this past May by Ward 5 Councillor John Gallo, the Inclusivity Award is bestowed each year \u201cto an individual, group or business that has contributed to making the Town of Aurora a more accessible and inclusive place to live, work and play for all people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCHATS promotes inclusivity through diverse outreach programs for Iranian, Russian, Korean, Italian, South Asian and Tamil communities,\u201d said Mayor Tom Mrakas, who emceed this year\u2019s ceremony. \u201cThese programs foster social interaction, cultural celebrations and offer resources in preferred languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCHATS helps to inspire older adults to discover the possibilities of aging at home longer and they help empower caregivers to look after themselves so they can better provide compassionate assistance to those that they care for. CHATS also provides social and wellness program and transportation services, ensuring access to healthcare and social outings. Their person-centred service enhance seniors\u2019 wellbeing, a sense of belonging and confidence as well as dignity and quality of life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accepting the award on behalf of the organization, CHATS CEO Christina Bisanz said the team is \u201cso grateful\u201d for the recognition as \u201cit really exemplifies how we strive to ensure that we\u2019re meeting the needs of a very diverse community that we serve throughout York Region \u2013 and particularly in Aurora.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have such a wide variety of cultures and languages and individuals that we serve and we want to be sure that we\u2019re doing our very best to be inclusive, welcoming, and ensure that everybody has a sense of belonging,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aurora-based organization CHATS \u2013 Community and Home Assistance to Seniors \u2013 is dedicated to serving local seniors both at, within and outside the home. This year, the organization and its passionate volunteers, were recognized by the Town of Aurora with the 2024 Inclusivity Award, part of the Town\u2019s annual Community Recognition Awards program. Presented in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-12-26-03.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-9gH","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 08:46:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35633,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35631\/revisions\/35633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}