Inspired by their recent partnership with the Sea to Sky Community Services’ (SSCS) Community Employment Program, Peter and Stephanie Chung, the owners of Primacorp, are making a gift of $30,000 to SSCS.
Primacorp has been part of the Squamish community through Quest University since 2020. “The partnership with SSCS supports Primacorp’s strong commitment to enrich the communities in which they operate, forming strategic partnerships to “give back” in the fields of employment, healthcare, and education,” the company said.
In 2021, Primacorp worked with SSCS to staff their new Quest University location of Joe’s Table Café, a social enterprise to provide fulfilling employment to people with cognitive disabilities.
Joe’s Table at Quest was opened by Peter and Stephanie Chung, in honour of their late son Joseph, who lived with autism. The Chung family’s hope is that “customers will gain an understanding of the importance and value of inclusiveness.”
“One thing that I found is that people with different abilities tend to stick with a job,” Peter Chung said. “A lot of times when you go to coffee shops, it is more of a short-term employment. But people with different abilities, they tend to stick with it […] They have a lot of pride in what they do.”
The Chung family say they are keen to further their patronage of the SSCS community employment program in the years ahead and look forward to working with the organization to empower more workers with disabilities in the Sea to Sky community.
By supporting SSCS, the Chung family will also aid in providing access to mental healthcare to young people ages 12-24 through newly-minted partner organization Foundry Sea to Sky.
