At Langs, our mission is to ensure every person in our community has a place for health, wellness, and support. Our vision of "changed lives, healthy communities" is deeply rooted in our core values of integrity, respect, accountability, collaboration, innovation, and excellence​​.

Langs is committed to ongoing learning through IDEA - inclusion, diversity, equity, and access. To ensure that the IDEA framework is embedded throughout our organization, the IDEA Action Team has been established with a cross-section of staff. This team meets regularly to create guidelines, tools, and resources for Langs staff and to evaluate policy and practices.  

IDEA Action Team initiatives encourage healthy dialogue on inclusion, diversity, equity, and access. Through its initiatives, the action team is also tasked with ensuring psychological and cultural safety is upheld for all community members, volunteers, and staff.

Langs IDEA Commitment Statement

Langs’ mission is to ensure that every person in our neighbourhoods will have a place to call home for health, wellness and community support.

We are dedicated to providing equitable access to high-quality programs and services for all our community members. We commit to actively champion inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility in our organizational practices, fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace for our colleagues, and cultivating and sustaining relationships with community partners that broaden our reach and deepen our understanding in each of the communities that we serve.   

Inclusion is an individual within the community feeling valued, respected and equally supported.

Diversity is the difference between individuals, which could refer to differences in race, colour, place of origin, religion, language, immigrant and newcomer status, ethnic origin, ability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, parental status, education, age etc.

Equity is the removal of systemic barriers and biases, allowing for equal access to and benefit from different programs and opportunities.

Access is the process whereby people gain equitable access along a continuum of human ability and experience.