SIGN for the Times
The Society for the Involvement of Good Neighbours, commonly known as SIGN, is a not-for-profit agency in Yorkton, Saskatchewan Canada that provides 24 social and community programs and services ranging from daycare and before-and-after school programs to parenting and family support, from senior mobility to assistance for those living with HIV, from housing support to vocational employment, from walk-in counselling services to Indigenous cultural programs. Our podcasts explore those programs and include conversations with people who speak first-hand about the issues they have faced, but more importantly, how they have successfully overcome them.
SIGN for the Times
From a modest start in 1969: the story of SIGN
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SIGN Communications
The Society for the involvement of Good Neighbours (SIGN) first opened an office in Yorkton on May 1, 1969. To quote from one of the first newsletters that year, “SIGN hopes to produce the product called Community Unity, a community in which people care about people. So we promote co-operation between churches, service organizations and other agencies throughout the community.”
Today, SIGN offers two dozen services not only in Yorkton, but also in other communities in east-central Saskatchewan. We spoke with two previous executive directors and the current CEO about the growth of the organization, the services it offers and how they were developed, and we look beyond today to see where SIGN may go in the years ahead.