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Employers overlook skilled workers
A new report published by the Conference Board of Canada says that persons with disabilities frequently match the skills and education levels of persons without disabilities but are nevertheless 3 times as likely to be unemployed or out of the labour force. Overlooking persons with disabilities comes at a cost to businesses, who are missing […]
Read More52 Years and Still Planning
Community Living Parry Sound (CLPS) incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1962 and is jointly funded by the Ministry of Community & Social Services, Ministry of Children and Youth Services and donations from private and corporate members of the community. 52 years later CLPS continues to evolve as an organization to meet the needs of […]
Read MoreRandy Barksey loves dishwashing job
Parry Sound North Star By Sarah Bissonette PARRY SOUND – Randy Barksey is the dishwasher at a downtown business. After years unemployed, Randy Barksey landed a job washing dishes at a local restaurant after contracting LINC. Randy returned to full-time employment after attending the Leading into New Careers (LINC) program, a program designed to assist those […]
Read MoreThe 2014 Community Living Bursary Recipient: Autumn Kozluk
Community Living Parry Sound offers a $150.00 Bursary award to the Parry Sound High School to be given out to a worthy student each year. Over the 15 years that the bursary has been awarded, CLPS has been proud of each recipient and this year is no exception. Autumn Kozluk was interviewed by Community Living […]
Read MoreINCLUSION; How it Happens
Since starting work at Community Living Parry Sound in October of 2013, I have learned a lot and grown as a person. This article, adapted from “Including Kids: How it happens” from the Edward Smith School in N.Y. offers a great ‘cheat sheet’ for thinking about how to make inclusion happen. Tricia Bain INCLUSION means […]
Read MoreHome Depot Parry Sound raises funds for Youth in Transition
Home Depot Parry Sound chose Community Living Parry Sound to be the non-profit organization to receive donations raised by their Orange Door fundraising Campaign. Parry Sound customers generously donated almost double the funds that were raised during last year’s fundraising efforts! Thanks go out to the Parry Sound community for helping to support youth in […]
Read MoreMayday
May is Community Living month in Parry Sound and it was full of interesting events, hard work and lots of community spirit. Community Living staff, family and representatives from the local Ministry of Natural Resources watched, with Mad Hatter’s coffee in hand, as Jamie McGarvey, Parry Sound’s Mayor, raised the flag on the first day […]
Read MoreOntario’s crisis of disabled adults, abandoned by the system
Sean Quinn’s diagnosis places him in the middle of a tangle called “developmental services.” And developmental services, in the province of Ontario, is a chronically underfunded, busted system. An estimated 21,000 people needing help – young people and adults with challenges ranging from autism and fetal alcohol syndrome to intellectual disabilities – languish on waiting […]
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