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Reaching Out for Housing Solutions

Spotlight on transformation Issue 45 ▪ December 2014 The Developmental Services Housing Task Force is reaching out for the very best ideas on innovative housing solutions for adults with developmental disabilities. The 19 volunteer members were appointed to review proposals and make recommendations on innovative housing solutions for funding under the province’s three-year, $810-million investment strategy for community and developmental services. Last month, […]

Down Syndrome No Barrier To College Degree

By ST. JOHN BARNED-SMITH, HOUSTON CHRONICLE/TNS December 16, 2014 Ezra Roy, 26, holds Alvin Roy, who not only has been his parent but also his art teacher and mutual source of inspiration. Ezra graduated from Texas Southern University with honors over the weekend, earning a bachelor’s degree in arts. His work has been exhibited at the […]

Addie Street Renovation: “Before”

This home was constructed in 1988 as a six-bed residence, with the idea that a split-level duplex design would create a smaller, home-like environment for the people living there. At that time the average age of the people living at Addie Street was 36 years old; today there are eight people living there and the […]

A History of CLPS

When I was hired by Community Living Parry Sound in 2013 I jumped right into a project that was mid-stride. I had little time to ask about how the Community Living movement had started or evolved. Moved by a strong desire to play a part in fulfilling the organization’s mission I just got to work.This […]

Looking for Home

Randy is 23 years old and was born in Toronto. At the age of four he was placed in foster care outside the city. The foster family that took Randy in looked after him for twelve years. When foster children must share a bedroom, as Randy did in the home he grew up in, regulations […]

Music with No Barriers

By Susan HayAnchor/Producer music http://globalnews.ca/news/1681229/program-gives-those-with-disabilities-the-chance-to-produce-music/ TORONTO- Music Without Barriers is a program that provides those who have physical, financial and cognitive barriers the chance to express themselves through music. Adrian Moody is a Toronto based musician, producer, and the co-founder of Music Without Barriers and said the program is about “collaborating with a community of people that have […]

What is a Family Home Provider?

Most people understand what foster homes are, but many people have never heard of a Family Home Provider. Family Home Providers welcome people with a developmental disability into their homes and into their families. When matched with a fitting candidate, becoming a Family Home Provider can be a remarkable opportunity to experience immense new joy […]

New Passport guidelines are here

Developmental Services Spotlight on transformation What can I use Passport direct funding for? www.mcss.gov.on.ca_documents_en_mcss_publications_spotlight_DS-Spotlight_issue42_en

The Issue: Where is Home?

It is a part of the vision of Community Living Ontario that all persons “have access to decent and appropriate homes which they are able to call their own.” Home is a word that means more than “where we live”; it means a place where we like to be, a place where we find rest, […]

Steven Takes Flight

Nine year old Steven Shurr is scheduled for an MRI that will most likely send him back for surgery to remove scarring from his tethered spinal cord. Every surgery Steven endures involves serious risks to his health. Keith and Nicole Saulnier of Georgian Bay Airways delivered a gift certificate to the Shurr family […]