By bevdunlay, on March 14th, 2012  ACE Conference “DRAFT” Agenda
June 13 & 14, 2012
This year’s Conference promises to be FUN, INFORMATIVE and VERY INTERACTIVE!! Check out the updated “DRAFT” Agenda.
Wednesday June 13, 2012 Agenda
Thusday June 14, 2012 Agenda
PDF Agenda Click Here: ACE 2012 DRAFT Agenda Mar 13
PDF Registration Click Here: 9th Annual Conference Registration Form
By bevdunlay, on March 14th, 2012 Two Interesting Publications from the Ministry of Community & Social Services
The Ministry of Community and Social Services introduced a regulation in 2011 to help prevent the abuse of adults with a developmental disability in group homes, day programs and similar settings. Read our February 2011 issue of Spotlight on Transformation to find out more.
Click on link for Spotlight on Tranformation Issue 30 March 2012 Spotlight_issue30-ENG Mar 2012
Click on link for Spotlight on Transformation Issue 23 February 2011 Spotlight-23-ENG_Feb 23 2011
By bevdunlay, on January 12th, 2012 Please click on PDF link for more information regarding the Passport Mentoring Conference in February 8 & 9 2012, sponsored by Community Living Ontario Passport Mentoring Conference
By bevdunlay, on August 22nd, 2011
 Social Inclusion of Children with and without Developmental Disabilities (DD)
We want to learn about the factors that are associated with the social participation and inclusion of preschool and early-school aged children with and without DD and the experience of their families. This information is very important for informing families, community and social services to better meet the needs of all children and their families.
Volunteers will be asked to fill out a series of questionnaires via an online survey
We are looking for parents who have a child:
- between the ages of 3 and 8 years
- who is typically developing, or who has a developmental disability (e.g., Down syn-drome, Autism Spectrum Disorder, developmental delay, etc.)
This study will take about 60 to 90 minutes to complete
Participants will be entered into a draw to win 1 of 5 – $25 gift certificates for your choice of either Toys R Us, Chapters, or Starbucks
Please follow the link to https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/social_inclusion
and use the password inclusion to complete the study.
Thank you for your interest!!
This study has been approved by the Queen’s University Health Sciences Research Ethics Board (Study code PSYC-105-10)
For more information, please contact Vicki Lopes at (613) 533-3059 or vicki.lopes@queensu.ca
By bevdunlay, on August 15th, 2011 8th Annual ACE Conference
All registrations must be received by ACE via on or before August 31, 2011
NEW COST $190.00/person
admission to the dance, one night accommodations based on double occupancy, one day conference, breakfast, lunch, refreshments and access to fitness room and pool at the Ramada Inn Belleville
Wednesday September 14th, 2011
3:oo pm Hotel Registration & dinner on your own
7:oo pm DANCE sponsored by Community Living Belleville and Area (formerly Plainfield Community Homes) with DJ Jim McLean
Thursday September 15th, 2011
Keynote Speaker: Dave Hingsburger
Making Contact, Making Connections, Making Community
Community Living is, of course, more than living in the community. In support of people with disabilities, effort has been made to facilitate connections and make opportunities for friendships. In doing so, we sometimes miss the obvious. This workshop will suggest a variety of differing connections that serve to make life celebratory. Using examples and stories, practical approaches that lead to an increased quality of life will be outlined.
People Supported Sessions
ACE Launch, ACE has been working hard on a new logo and tagline bringing them back to the basics of education and inclusion, they will discuss how this change is taking place and its effect on the group. ACE will invite other groups to share their successes.
Chrissy Johnson, As people continue to have different life experiences and inclusive lifestyles it will be important to hear what Chrissy has to say about healthy relationship and boundary setting.
Dawn Lee, Quality Assurance Manager at Community Living Campbellford/Brighton
The government wants to improve services and supports for adults who have intellectual disabilities and their families. It wants services and supports to:
- Be fair, so that everyone gets treated the same way
- Be flexible, so that services and supports better meet people’s needs
- Be here for the future
The new regulation (299/10) is part of the Services and Supports to Promote the Social Inclusion of Persons with Developmental Disabilities Act, 2008. It talks about the rules that agencies and services must follow. Quality assurance measures are rules that help agencies provide high quality services and supports and meet set standards.
In this session Dawn will discuss the standards and how they will impact people receiving services in Ontario.
Staff Sessions
Cindie Evans, Coordinator with Developmental Services Ontario Toni Hill, Assessor/Navigator
will discuss the provincial intake process as well as the Application Package including the Supports Intensity Scale.
Chrissy Johnson, Counsellor with Kawartha Sexual Health
will facilitate a session with staff about sexual assault, what it is and how do we support someone who has been assaulted. Chrissy will discuss services offered, what happens after an assault is reported to the Police, how it impacts the victim and what we can do to support someone through the process.
For more Information & Registration please contact ACE… 705.653.1821 ext.241 to speak with Bev or fax 705.653.5738 Email: admin@communitylivingcampbellford.com
Click on Link to download a PDF Registration Form: 8th Annual Conference Registration Form
By bevdunlay, on July 14th, 2011 8th Annual ACE Conference
All registrations must be received by ACE via on or before August 31, 2011
NEW COST $190.00/person
admission to the dance, one night accommodations based on double occupancy, one day conference, breakfast, lunch, refreshments and access to fitness room and pool at the Ramada Inn Belleville
Wednesday September 14th, 2011
3:oo pm Hotel Registration & dinner on your own
7:oo pm DANCE sponsored by Community Living Belleville and Area (formerly Plainfield Community Homes) with DJ Jim McLean
Thursday September 15th, 2011
Keynote Speaker: Dave Hingsburger
Making Contact, Making Connections, Making Community
Community Living is, of course, more than living in the community. In support of people with disabilities, effort has been made to facilitate connections and make opportunities for friendships. In doing so, we sometimes miss the obvious. This workshop will suggest a variety of differing connections that serve to make life celebratory. Using examples and stories, practical approaches that lead to an increased quality of life will be outlined.
People Supported Sessions
ACE Launch, ACE has been working hard on a new logo and tagline bringing them back to the basics of education and inclusion, they will discuss how this change is taking place and its effect on the group. ACE will invite other groups to share their successes.
Chrissy Johnson, As people continue to have different life experiences and inclusive lifestyles it will be important to hear what Chrissy has to say about healthy relationship and boundary setting.
Dawn Lee, Quality Assurance Manager at Community Living Campbellford/Brighton
The government wants to improve services and supports for adults who have intellectual disabilities and their families. It wants services and supports to:
- Be fair, so that everyone gets treated the same way
- Be flexible, so that services and supports better meet people’s needs
- Be here for the future
The new regulation (299/10) is part of the Services and Supports to Promote the Social Inclusion of Persons with Developmental Disabilities Act, 2008. It talks about the rules that agencies and services must follow. Quality assurance measures are rules that help agencies provide high quality services and supports and meet set standards.
In this session Dawn will discuss the standards and how they will impact people receiving services in Ontario.
Staff Sessions
Cindie Evans, Coordinator with Developmental Services Ontario Toni Hill, Assessor/Navigator
will discuss the provincial intake process as well as the Application Package including the Supports Intensity Scale.
Chrissy Johnson, Counsellor with Kawartha Sexual Health
will facilitate a session with staff about sexual assault, what it is and how do we support someone who has been assaulted. Chrissy will discuss services offered, what happens after an assault is reported to the Police, how it impacts the victim and what we can do to support someone through the process.
For more Information & Registration please contact ACE… 705.653.1821 ext.241 to speak with Bev or fax 705.653.5738 Email: admin@communitylivingcampbellford.com
Click on Link to download a PDF Registration Form: 8th Annual Conference Registration Form
By bevdunlay, on July 5th, 2011 Over the past two months Community Living Campbellford/ Brighton has worked closely with Joe Dale and the Rotary at Work Initiative and have adopted their employment model. The idea was to find and nurture a local champion/employer who has had positive experiences with inclusive hiring in the past and would be interested in moving the inclusion agenda forward. We were successful in engaging Steve Sharpe owner of Sharpe’s Food Market to be our “Champion”. Steve holds the same value in inclusive hiring as we do and quickly became deeply involved with our new model. Steve’s role was to and will continue to be to attend all meetings with local employers alongside Amy Widdows. Together they sit with employers and speak of the benefits of hiring inclusively from a business perspective. As a result of our new model in the past 6 weeks we have had 3 new paid positions offered to people we support as well as a new location for a time limited job trial site that may turn into another paid position. In addition to being present at all employer meetings our Champions role also includes promoting our Employment Program at Rotary meetings, co presenting at the Community Living Ontario Conference, interviewee for local newspapers and has also made his store and employees available to have a Rotary At Work video filmed .
Since we have moved to this model we have seen a 72% increase in community based employment.
Click on links below to watch videos promoting Rotary at Work!
Rotary at Work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV-DQfVhISc
Rotary at Work – District 7070:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLrOq9yALYo&feature=player_detailpage
By bevdunlay, on June 17th, 2011 Awareness day shows gaps accessibility for the disabled
By Mark Hoult
Community Press
Campbellford — Lucinda Humphries pumps her arms forward, propelling the wheelchair down the sidewalk to the Trent Hills municipal office, where she presses the button for the automatic door and manoeuvres herself inside.
The municipal office was relatively easy to enter in a wheelchair, but Humphries, an outcome support worker with Community Living Campbellford-Brighton, discovered last week that not all buildings in Campbellford, even when equipped with automatic doors, provide easy access for a disabled person.
Humphries was one of six people taking part in the June 8 More Abled than Disabled Community Access Awareness Day in Campbellford, an event that enables able-bodied people to experience the challenges faced by people using wheelchairs, scooters and walkers every day to move around the town’s streets, businesses and public buildings.
For Humphries, an able-bodied person unused to moving around in a wheelchair, getting into buildings was a unique and eye-opening challenge.
“It was a good experience to do, because I’m usually pushing a wheelchair rather than riding it, and I never really realized how unaccessible places are, even when they think they are.”
Humphries said she also discovered that sidewalks are not as friendly seen from the perspective of a wheelchair.
“I never realized how much they slant, and how the curbs, even with a ramp, are difficult to get up. There’s still a lip to get over when you are crossing the street.” Continue reading It’s not as easy as it looks
By bevdunlay, on May 6th, 2011 JOIN US FOR THE….
8th Annual Self Advocates Conference !!
September 15th & 16th, 2011
Keynote Speaker :
Dave Hingsburger
Chrissy Johnson— Outreach Counsellor in the Northumberland area
- Self Advocates Session: Healthy touch, boundaries
- Staff Session: How to support people who have been abused
Dawn Lee— Manager of Quality Enhancement & Community Development/CLCB
- Self Advocates Session: Information on the new Quality Assurance Regulations 299/10
Only $275.00 per person based on double occupancy
Including two nights accommodations at the Ramada Inn, Belleville, breakfast, lunches & refreshments, Entertainment including a dance with a DJ and Hospitality Suite as well as access to hotel pool and fitness center!! ( cost per person is based on double occupancy. Single occupancy $360) one night $200.00/person ( cost per person is based on double occupancy. Single occupancy $250)—day rates available at $100.00 per day.
Registration deadline is August. 31, 2011
Click on link for PDF Flyer to print: Flyer for Conference 2011 UPDATED
Click on link for PDF Flyer to print Registration Form: 8th Annual Conference Registration Form
For more Information & Registration please contact ACE…Phone: 705.653.1821 ex.241 (Bev) Fax: 705.653.5738
E-mail: admin@communitylivingcampbellford.com
Check out our website for updates as they happen!!!!www.communitylivingcampbellford.com ACE 2011
By bevdunlay, on March 23rd, 2011 SAVE THE DATE….
More great speakers to be announced at a later date!!!
8th Annual Self Advocates Conference !!
September 15th & 16th, 2011
Keynote Speaker :
Dave Hingsburger
Click on link for PDF Flyer to print: Flyer for Conference 2011
Click on link for PDF Flyer to print Registration Form: 8th Annual Conference Registration Form
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