BY: Michelle Strutzenberger

Jason Rae, the board president for Community Living Campbellford-Brighton and a self advocate, has identified two issues that he feels should take top priority in the association’s agenda for 2005 – housing and disability supports.

“Right now we’re in a housing crisis,” says Jason.

“A couple of people we support don’t have homes. It’s a big issue here.”

In a previous interview with Leaders, Chris Grayson, Community Living Campbellford-Brighton’s executive director, also identified available housing as a pressing issue in Northumberland County, particularly for aging parents of sons and daughters who have an intellectual disability.

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BY: John Campbell
DATE: June 23, 2004

Wanted: three family homes for individuals with intellectual disabilities.

Community Living Campbellford/Brighton is hoping that a direct appeal to the public will work.

“A shortage of family home providers in our service area has created an immediate emergency,” executive director Chris Grayson said.

One of the individuals, an adult male in his late 20s, is currently without a home, and two others, both female also in their 20s, will find themselves in the same situation by the end of the month.

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