Good Enough Isn’t Enough

Never settling - striving for the ‘good life’

Welcome everyone to our 2022 Skills Society annual general meeting (AGM) report and reflections. As you know, it’s now been over two years since some of the toughest times our Skills Society family has faced in our 41 year history. As we hopefully continue to see the pandemic become more endemic, we are starting to be able to cautiously look ahead. No one knows exactly what the future will hold, but what we have learned from the pandemic is that we are a strong community when we look out for each other, and see how we are all interconnected. We want to once again offer our sincere gratitude to the people we serve, families, employees, allies and government funders who have stepped up and gone above and beyond to help over the past couple years. You matter and it has made the journey a little easier knowing our community is there for each other.

The theme for our AGM is partially about not settling for just ‘good enough’ as we come out of the pandemic. But the theme is also something we think is a powerful call to action that should underlie all of our collective work, vision, values, thrive in five, and deep citizenship model that underpins our support of people. When we reflect on what the energies are that truly push us forward in supporting the good life for people, it’s when everyone in our Skills community from front line to the board, have a deep conviction that no one should settle for people with disabilities lives just being ok, or ‘good enough’. We believe anyone can be a leader and the leaders who make a difference are the ones who don’t settle and strive against all odds and barriers to insist on figuring out how to support people with disabilities to have good lives. We are proud to present in the report, reflections on what the good life can mean, and stories of not giving up or settling when barriers and “ya buts” arise. We hope that as we all read the report and stories, we all come away with conviction to not settle, and keep working together to figure out how to keep supporting people to have good lives everyday.

We believe anyone can be a leader and the leaders who make a difference are the ones who don’t settle and strive against all odds and barriers to insist on figuring out how to support people with disabilities to have good lives.