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PRESENTERS Jelka Garic & Shawn Ratnasingam

Are you a service provider in Ontario offering fee-for-service programs and services for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities or Autism? MyCommunityHub can help you efficiently manage your registrations for free.

Recorded at the Shared Learning Forum March 28

Sex Education as Harm Reduction for Adults with Developmental Disabilities

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PRESENTER: Spencer Marley, BSW, Transitional Support Worker, Griffin Community Support Network, Transitional Support Services (Adult) 

Join us for a presentation and open forum discussion on the ways that sexual health education for adults with developmental disabilities can act as a form of harm reduction for sexual abuse. Learn about statistics, legal/ethical obligations for service providers, how we can overcome our own biases to provide the most appropriate care for service users, and more!

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Recorded at The Shared Learning Forum – February 28, 2025

Community Engagement Speaker Series: TTC

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This month, we are pleased to announce an insightful session from the TTC to speak on various transit topics including : Wheel-Trans, Presto and fares, as well as the TTC Travel Training program.

The TTC provides safe and reliable transportation options for persons with temporary and/or permanent disabilities.

Post -21 Graduates

Are you graduating this year?

Looking for a Life & Social Skills Program to transition into after June 2025?

Tour On March 10 – 14 to explore services and programs that will meet your goals and enhance your quality of life.

Drop in or book your tour, today.

See flyer for more information

Youth Alliance for Intersectional Justice

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Each month, CLTO’s Community Engagement Speaker Series highlights different topics of interest, providing education and information to individuals with disabilities, families, caregivers, and the community at large.

This month, we are pleased to announce an insightful session from Youth Alliance Intersectional Justice. A black youth-led collective of racialized neurodiverse youth, adults and alies, in Ubuntu an understanding of our connectedness

Community Engagement Speaker Series: MyJobMatch

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Each month, CLTO’s Community Engagement Speaker Series highlights different topics of interest, providing education and information to individuals with disabilities, families, caregivers, and the community at large.

This month, we are pleased to announce an insightful session from MyJobMatch. MyJobMatch is a service created for employers, job seekers with a disability, and employment support professionals to come together to track, match, and secure meaningful job opportunities.

The SHIFT – Holistic and Intersectional Harm Reduction Services for People with Intellectual Disabilities

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 PRESENTER: Jill Faber is currently a Director with Community Living North Bay and has been working in Developmental Services since 1990. Jill also had the fortune of spending many years working with Helen Sanderson Associates and Alliance Information Management Systems across Ontario. For the past 9 years she was working in the North Eastern part of Ontario as a regional Case Manager for people that have been often forgotten or failed by services and systems. 

A group of like minded people came together in North Eastern Ontario to try and find solutions to the complexity and lack of services for people in our community with intellectual disabilities whom are already significantly marginalized and at risk due to addictions, poverty, intergenerational trauma, gender and race. THE SHIFT is a harm reduction focused resource for the developmental services sector. It is built around the person-centred, “Do Nothing about Us, Without Us” philosophy and is focused on non-judgement and inclusive care that is culturally sensitive, evidence-based, accessible and more than anything, individual-led and based on incremental gains. 

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Transition Planning for Youth with Intellectual Disabilities

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PRESENTERS: 

Megan Henze, Transitional Services Facilitator, Surrey Place

Angie Gonzales, is a Nurse Professional Practice Lead and Clinical Nurse Specialist at Surrey Place. She provides nursing consultation care with Surrey Place’s Plus 45 clinical team. She is currently also part of ECHO Ontario Adult Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities program.

Participants will be able to:

  • Understand approaches and opportunities for promoting decision-making capabilities in supporting persons with intellectual/developmental disabilities’ (IDD) transitioning from pediatric to adult health care.
  • Discuss higher prevalence issues for Transition-Age Youth with IDD, e.g.,
    • Mental health
    • Sexual health

Consider examples of tools for optimizing transition support:

  • SHARE Transition Plan Tool
  • My Hospital Form
  • New DD Primary Care Program Mental Health Toolkit

Recorded at the Shared Learning Forum – April 26, 2024

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