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.
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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
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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.
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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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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:
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Recorded at the Shared Learning Forum – April 26, 2024
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Since 2011, Respecting Rights has provided innovative, accessible rights education to persons labeled with intellectual disabilities
PRESENTER: Jessica Field Education and Outreach Coordinator and a member from the Respecting Rights self-advocate team.
Respecting Rights is a project at ARCH Disability Law Centre that is led by self-advocates labeled with intellectual disabilities. Since 2011, Respecting Rights has provided innovative, accessible rights education to persons labeled with intellectual disabilities and their support networks across Ontario. Respecting Rights also works on accessible law reform projects. Our work builds the capacity of persons labeled with intellectual disabilities through education and support for self-advocacy.
Respecting Rights hosts monthly and quarterly self-advocates meetings, and collaborates with Developmental Service agencies to offer legal rights education workshops to the people they support. Webinar participants will have an opportunity to learn about the work that Respecting Rights does, why this work is important, and how the people they support can become involved.
Recorded at the Shared Learning Forum – February 23, 2024
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Victim Services Toronto provides immediate, confidential support for any person who has experienced crime or sudden tragedy 24/7. VST is crisis response, intervention and prevention services for victims of crime and sudden tragedy in Toronto. This workshop with provide an overview of all their services and programs within the GTA.
PRESENTER: Jasminder Sekhon Jasminder Sekhon is a gender justice advocate through an intersectional feminist and trauma-informed lens. She is a graduate of the University of Oxford’s Masters in Criminology and Criminal Justice and has a double degree in Political Science and Criminology from the University of Toronto. She has extensive experience working in the field of gendered violence prevention, particularly human trafficking prevention. Jasminder is the Community Development Coordinator at Victim Services Toronto and has worked on gender-based violence prevention strategies for Toronto, Peel, Durham, and Halton Regions. She has also developed an online, Ontario-wide course on human trafficking available to all colleges. As a South Asian woman, she is passionate about social justice and anti-oppressive practices.
Recorded at Shared Learning Forum September 29, 2023