Community Partners & Alliances
CDS has always relied on strong partnerships within the community as well as, outside the region to ensure services being provided are meeting the needs of the individuals supported through our programs. In addition, the goodwill and commitment of many community organizations and funding agencies to create an inclusive community are the backbone of our success and of course, the CDS staff who continue to build and maintain the partnerships. CDS has developed many partnerships within the community throughout the years all playing an integral role in CDS successes.
Some of the partnerships we have come to rely on are:
- ANKORS;
- BC Housing;
- Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy (CBAL)
- Columbia Basin Trust (CBT)
- Communities in Bloom
- Community Futures
- Community Living BC
- Freedom Quest Youth Services
- Greater Trail Community Skills Centre;
- Homelessness Partnering Strategy (HPS);
- Interior Health Association (IHA);
- Ministry of Children and Family Development;
- Ministry of Social Development & Poverty Reduction
- Nelson Cares;
- PGNAETA (Prince George Nechako Aboriginal Employment and Training Association);
- Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB);
- Salvation Army
- Sanctuary
- School District #20
- Selkirk College
- Stepping Stones;
- Teck Trail
- The City of Trail;
- Trail Chamber of Commerce
- Trail Family & Individual Resource Society (FAIR)
- Trail Mental Health & Addictions
- Trail Parks & Recreation
- United Steel Workers, Local 480
- United Way
- West Kootenay Brain Injury Society (WKBIA)
- WINS Transition House

