By bevdunlay, on October 7th, 2011  
Announcing the Ticket winners for our Draw!
Shane Jarvis – 1st Prize: $2500.00 Travel Voucher for Marlin Travel
Ryan Yarrow – 2nd Prize: $500.00 Gift Certificate for T and J Thrower Farm (beef)
Nancy Dyer – 3rd Prize: $150.00 Spa Voucher for Teri and Co.
 
Angela helping Raymond to draw the tickets Raymond holding the 1st prize ticket winner
Raymond congratulating Ryan the 2nd prize winner
Community Living Campbellford/Brighton would like to thank everyone who purchased tickets to support our organization.
Thanks to Raymond for drawing the winning tickets and Angela for her assistance!
A special THANK YOU to our Board of Directors who donated the Marlin Travel Voucher, to T & J Thrower Farm who donated the Beef Certificate and also Teri & Co. for donating the Spa Voucher. Your generous donations allowed us to experience a very successful fundraising event! Thanks again for your continued support it’s very much appreciated.
By bevdunlay, on September 30th, 2011 Please join us for the
4th Annual Charity Dinner
hosted by
Be My Guest!
Monday, October 10th, 2011
12:00 noon until 5:00 pm
Cost: Donation
A delicious hot turkey dinner will be served with dessert!
All proceeds are being donated to:
Supporting People with Intellectual Disabilities
For more information, please contact:
Andrew Papanoloza
16 Doxsee Street N
Campbellford, ON K0L 1L0
Phone: (705) 653-4555
By bevdunlay, on September 27th, 2011 Elena Hogan / Northumberland News Sep 24, 2011
Colin Sanders/Glenn McLeod/Diane News/Nancy Brown/Keystone Community Supports Corporation. COBOURG — Keystone Community Supports Corporation co-chairman Colin Sanders (left), board members Glenn McLeod and Diane News, and Executive Director Nancy Brown break ground at 1270 Ashland Dr. where the very first Keystone House will be built. Once completed, it will provide a home to five intellectually challenged individuals in Northumberland County. Keystone House will provide residents with individualized support to live independently and allow them to remain in the community that is familiar to them. Elena Hogan / Northumberland News
COBOURG — Keystone Community Supports Corporation began the construction of its first Keystone House in Cobourg on Tuesday, Sept. 20.
An initiative developed in 2006 in response to a growing concern from parents of children with intellectual and physical challenges regarding their continued care into adulthood, the Keystone House is a pilot project that provides a home to intellectually challenged individuals.
Once complete, the 1270 Ashland Dr. home will provide five residents with individualized support to live independently and allow them to remain in the community that is familiar to them.
Advocacy for the project has been “amazing,” said Community Living Campbellford/Brighton and Keystone Community Supports Corporation Executive Director Nancy Brown. Support has come from the community, the Town and the Province to see the house come to fruition.
All the project’s capital funds were raised through the help of a committee of Cobourg community residents headed by Keystone fundraising chairman Bill Patchett.
On Monday, Sept. 19, Cobourg council authorized a 50 per cent reduction in both the building permit fees and development charges for the Keystone House build. Mayor Gil Brocanier was at the ground-breaking ceremony and said the Town and County recognized the need for homes like Keystone and were happy to see the project moving forward.
Also at the ceremony was MPP Lou Rinaldi who both Ms. Brown and Keystone co-chairman Colin Sanders said has been instrumental in moving the project forward. In August of this year, Mr. Rinaldi announced the Province would be contributing annual operational funding of $672,000 to the project.
“This project means everything to me,” said Glenn McLeod, Keystone board member and parent of a special needs adult child. “This has been a long time coming, we’ve been trying to help families and some of them are in very serious need of help.
“Some of the special needs children aren’t children anymore,” Mr. McLeod continued. “They’re adults and mom and dad are having a hard time looking after themselves let alone looking after an adult child. The need is phenomenal in Northumberland and in Ontario and the community has been fantastic raising the funds to make this pilot project possible.”
By bevdunlay, on September 23rd, 2011 A large group of people participated in Tuesday’ official ground breaking of Keystone Community Supports’ new home for adults with intellectual disabilities. The included board co-chairs Bill Thompson (second from left, front) and Collin Sanders (fourth from left in front, white helmet), Liberal candidate Lou Rinaldi (front in red shirt), Cobourg Mayor Gil Brocanier (second from right in front row) and students from CDCI East who will be involved in framing the building.
By CECILIA NASMITH Northumberland Today
COBOURG — Cobourg council voted this week to allow Keystone Community Supports to pay only half of the building-permit fees and development charges that apply on the house at 1270 Ashland Dr., for which ground has just been broken.
A report from treasurer Ian Davey estimated this to be a $8,442.08 reduction in costs to assist with the construction of the single dwelling, which will house five developmentally challenged individuals whose parents are aging and no longer able to care for them at home.
Davey’s report noted that other charges do apply to the project: a $1,189 Lakefront Utility Services Inc. development charge and a county plumbing permit which depends on the number of plumbing fixtures in the house. For relief on these fronts, Keystone would have to apply directly to these two agencies.
While Keystone had asked that building-permit fees and development charges be waived, Deputy Mayor Stan Frost said in making the motion to offer the 50% cut, “I believe this is consistent with our response to similar requests from Habitat For Humanity.”
By bevdunlay, on September 23rd, 2011  Pamper Yourself
Your “One Stop Shop” for Holiday gifts this season!
Please join us in the Acorn Room on
Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm
Explore these various local home businesses and many more all in one location!
$2 entry fee spoils you with a coffee, a cookie and a ticket for the prize table.
Additional tickets can be purchased to win fabulous prizes!
All proceeds are being donated tothe Outcome Sponsorship Fund.
This fund has been developed to help support people financially to attain their
life dreams and goals.
Click on Link for a PDF File of poster: Oct 22 Poster
Campbellford Community Resource Centre Acorn Room
65 Bridge Street East
Campbellford, ON
K0L 1L0
For More Information, Please Contact:
Emily Pomeroy at 705.653.1821 ext. 231
or E-mail: epomeroy@communitylivingcampbellford.com
By bevdunlay, on September 16th, 2011
By CECILIA NASMITH NORTHUMBERLAND TODAY
COBOURG — Ground will be broken Tuesday on a project almost a decade in the making.
Keystone House will provide 14 permanent jobs, while fulfilling a need that has not been taken care of, builder Al LeBlanc told Cobourg council at this week’s committee-of-the-whole meeting.
That need is to provide a home for developmentally disabled adult children whose parents have cared for them all their lives. As those parents age, they worry what will become of these adult children.
LeBlanc’s appearance was on behalf of Keystone Community Supports, who are asking that the development charges and building-permit fees on the house on Parkview Hills Drive be waived.
Keystone co-chair Colin Sanders said he had been involved in the project since it started out as an idea bandied about over a coffee table. In the ensuing decade, people have given generously, from $2 to $2,000, and more. With money being raised for the house, the last piece fell into place in recent weeks with the announcement of operational funding from the province.
Councillor Miriam Mutton asked how accommodations would be set up. Sanders said that the 3,000-sq.-ft. home would be divided into two apartments, one accommodating two people and one accommodating three. All existing services and personal- help arrangements these residents have would remain with them in their new home.
As well, the operational funding has allowed them to include two respite beds and 2,000 respite hours per year.
There’s nothing like it in the province, LeBlanc said.
Mutton said a precedent had been set for this kind of request with Habitat For Humanity homes, and Deputy Mayor Stan Frost made a motion that the request be referred to staff for a report.
cnasmith@northumberlandtoday.com
By bevdunlay, on September 16th, 2011
 Province to help fund Cobourg Home
Northumberland News
Paul J. Rellinger
Aug 31, 2011
Province to help fund Cobourg home. COBOURG — Jeffrey Sanders, with his caregiver Jane Van Dusen, attends a funding announcement on Parkview Hills Drive in Cobourg by Northumberland-Quinte West MPP Lou Rinaldi on Aug. 19. Ontario’s Ministry of Community and Social Services will contribute $672,000 annually to the Keystone Community Supports Corporation, which finds homes for people with intellectual disabilities. Paul J. Rellinger / Northumberland News
COBOURG — With funding now secured, a new home to be built in Cobourg will help benefit people with intellectual disabilities.
On Friday, Aug. 19, at the future site of the new home on Parkview Hills Drive in Cobourg, Northumberland-Quinte West MPP Lou Rinaldi announced the Ministry of Community and Social Services will contribute $672,000 annually to the operational costs of running the home.
The residential support proposal was submitted to the Province by Community Living Campbellford/Brighton and the Keystone Community Supports Corporation.
“Keystone started with a group of parents who wanted a special place, a real home away from home for their loved ones,” said Mr. Rinaldi to a small crowd. “It took a long time, but we made it happen. None of us involved in Keystone ever doubted this day would come, and here it is.”
Keystone Community Supports Corporation is a family-based organization dedicated to finding housing solutions for people with intellectual disabilities and their families living in Northumberland County.
“This home is the first step in supporting individuals with intellectual disabilities,” said Nancy Brown, an executive director with Keystone Community Supports Corporation, as well as Community Living Campbellford/Brighton. “This is not a group home, but a place where we can help people one person at a time.”
Ms. Brown said the home will accommodate five residents, with support staff in the home 24 hours a day. Although the announced funding will cover operational costs, that doesn’t include personal costs by the residents. According to Ms. Brown, residents will pay for their own food, as well as utilities, cable, phone and Internet costs.
Construction of the home is scheduled to begin on Sept. 20, and it should be ready for occupancy in January 2012.
Continue reading Province to help fund Cobourg home
By bevdunlay, on September 16th, 2011 
Footnote: Written by: Lou Rinaldi, MPP for Northumberland-Quinte West
A residential support proposal submitted to the Ministry of Community and Social Services by Community Living Campbellford/Brighton and the Keystone Community Supports Corporation has been approved for funding from the Ministry’s recently announced Innovation Fund.
The Province of Ontario will contribute annual funding of $672,000 to provide residential opportunities, as well as a much needed Respite component.
Keystone Community Supports Corporation is a family-based organization dedicated to finding housing solutions for people with intellectual disabilities and their families living in the County of Northumberland and beyond. The organization was incorporated in July 2006 and is governed by a volunteer Board of community minded individuals. It is also recognized as a Registered Charitable organization by the Government of Canada. Keystone will be working closely with Community Living Campbellford/Brighton, a fully funded service provider under the Ministry of Community and Social Services, who enthusiastically embraced the opportunity to work with families and help develop the Keystone initiative.
http://www.keystonehouse.ca/
Quotes
“I am so happy to be making this funding announcement today. Keystone started with a group of parents who wanted a special place a real “home away from home” for their loved ones. Keystone House was born out of a desire to create a place that was that real home away from home. Home means so many different things to so many different people, but we can all agree it means a place of love and security. For me, Keystone represents one of my highlights as M.P.P. It took a long time but we made it happened, None of us involved in Keystone ever doubted this day would come…and here it is.”
- Lou Rinaldi, M.P.P., Northumberland-Quinte West
“We are very pleased with the tireless advocacy of our M.P.P. Lou Rinaldi for all his efforts to make our dream of a Keystone House a reality for the residents and their families”.
- Colin Sanders, Co-Chair of the Board of Directors, Keystone Community Supports Corporation
Keystone Community Supports Corporation has supported this initiative by long-term fundraising that has produced capital dollars to build this home on Park Hills Drive, Cobourg, ON. This property was purchased from Leblanc Enterprises in February 2010. Start date of construction is September 20, 2011 with an anticipated tenancy date of January 2012. Community Living Campbellford/Brighton will be the direct service provider responsible for operations and resources required.
Keystone Community Supports Corporation will continue to play a meaningful role in terms of fundraising, community education, and advocacy related to the residential needs of people with intellectual disabilities.
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
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