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Community Living WallaceburgIndividual and Family Directed

Supports

Mission

Community Living Wallaceburg is a progressive association that enables people to realize their

potential and choices within inclusive communities.

Vision

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Personal Planning and Self-Directed Initiatives

Families from throughout Chatham-Kent receive respite, community support, advocacy, personal and life planning through Community Living Wallaceburg’s Individual and Family Directed Supports. All resources are managed and directed by families or guardians, who engage their own in-home worker. Recruitment and training assistance is offered with support through respiteservices.com

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Funding Options

Special Services at HomeSSAH

This program assists children, youth with disabilities who live at home with their families. SSAH’s focus is to provide funds to purchase supports not available elsewhere in the community and is a model for individualized, consumer-directed funding.

• Community Living Wallaceburg is currently serving 159 families in Chatham-Kent who receive Special Services at Home funding.

• Movement of people off waitlist is continuing and commitment from Ministry to have no waitlist within the next one year.

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Family Managed RespiteFMR

FMR enables a wide range of self-directed funding providing family members or guardians with an opportunity to have a periodic break from the daily responsibility of care giving for their family member who has an intellectual disability.

• Community Living Wallaceburg is currently serving 73 families in Chatham-Kent who receive Family Managed Respite funding.

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Out of Home RespiteOHR

Community Living Wallaceburg extends funding for families or guardians to purchase planned and coordinated respite supports for their children with complex multiple needs. OHR is a respite service provided in any location outside the family’s home.

• Community Living Wallaceburg is currently serving 30 families in Chatham-Kent who receive Out of Home Respite funding.

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Specialized Respite SupportSRS

SRS provides family members or guardians with children or youth who have exceptional social, emotional and behavioural needs with opportunities to plan periodic breaks from care giving.

• Community Living Wallaceburg is currently serving 23 families in Chatham-Kent who receive Specialized Respite Support funding.

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Autism Spectrum Disorder Respite SupportASDR

ASD Respite Support offers a flexible mechanism to families or guardians caring for children and youth, who have a diagnosis within the Autism Spectrum Disorder & are under the age of 18, to receive temporary relief from the physical and emotional demands involved with caring for children with ASD.

• Community Living Wallaceburg is currently serving 56 families in Chatham-Kent who receive Autism Spectrum Disorder Respite Support funding.

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Community Living Wallaceburg is pleased to be the host agency for respiteservices.com in Chatham-Kent.

respiteservices.com aims to make it easier for families and workers to connect through the Family Registry and Support Worker Database. It is the perfect place to look when families want to hire a qualified, experienced in-home support worker and for in-home support workers who want to advertise their credentials, their skills and their abilities. The website also provides information to families and workers regarding funding, respite options, upcoming events and much more.

To learn more, details can be found by visiting respiteservice.com.

respiteservices.com

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Community Living Wallaceburg

• CLW offers a wide range of supportsq Deafblind Intervenor Servicesq Complex Special Needs and Behaviour Supportsq Job Match ODSP Employment Supportsq Accommodation Supports

q Directly working with 98 people in Chatham-Kent

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