Tag Archives: developmental disabilities
“Community living’s” quality assurance?
How do “community living” (a euphemism for organizations that care for people with developmental disabilities) agencies assure quality of life when professionalism is eroded due to an over reliance on part-time staff? How do “community living” agencies assure quality of life … Continue reading
Rain Man vs. reality
“Too often the mental health-care system has not grown to meet the different and complex challenges (of people with developmental disabilities) that such ailments impose in adolescence and adulthood.”1 It’s fascinating that CAMH’s new Centre for Adult Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and … Continue reading
Posted in Government Behaviour, Responsible and Accountable Expenditures
Tagged broken system, CAMH, Centre for Adult Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and Mental Health, community living panacea, developmental disabilities, dual diagnosis, mental health, Ministry of Health, Ontario, Ontario Liberal government, panacea of choice, psychiatrist, Rain Man, regional centres, social integration, social isolation, Social workers, unmitigated disaster, waiting lists
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Pension plan ads or developmental disability specialists
Some Ontario politicians apparently have lots of time on their hands. They spend it telling Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other members of the federal government how to do their jobs. It must mean that all the issues the Ontario … Continue reading
Posted in Responsible and Accountable Expenditures
Tagged community living, corner's inquest, developmental disabilities, developmental disability, developmental disability specialist, group home, Guy Mitchell, institutions, Ontario Government, Ontario Registered Pension Plan, oversight, Stephen Harper, taxpayers' dollars, utopia
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Return anything you got for Christmas that starts with “SMART”
With the Christmas hustle and bustle you may have missed the report from Ontario’s auditor general, Ms. Bonnie Lysyk. Ms. Christina Blizzard’s article, “One boondoggle after another at Queen’s Park” gives us the low-down on how Ontario is smarting from the … Continue reading
“Community Living” not a panacea for people with developmental disabilities
Twelve years ago this month the residents and staff of Huronia Regional Centre (then a specialized care centre for people with severe developmental disabilities) in Orillia, Ontario got the thrill of a lifetime when Pope John Paul II pulled up … Continue reading
