Family Alliance Ontario
Response to the Discussion paper
On Transforming Developmental Services in Ontario
November 30th, 2004
This response is derived from discussion and feedback from the families in the following participating family networks:
Windsor/Essex, Toronto, Chatham, Sarnia, London, St. Mary’s, Hamilton, Kitchener/Cambridge/Guelph, Mississauga, Muskoka, Kingston, Thunder Bay, Ottawa, Durham, Markham/Unionville, Fort Erie, and Leeds/ Grenville
The Family Alliance Ontario distributed the discussion paper throughout the province by sending it to all the Family Networks with memberships from 20 to 800 members, and its partners. Networks distributed the paper to their members who submitted written replies and /or met in discussion groups throughout Ontario. All responses were then sent to the Family Alliance Ontario where they have been listed in our response. No contribution was excluded.
The contributions of the family networks are consolidated and summarized under the following headings:
- Values and Principles
- Process - How the system should be designed and monitored.
- System benefits - What benefits the system should offer to those who require disability supports.
- System features - What features the system should have in order to produce the above benefits.
- Current system failures - What is wrong with the system in Ontario today?
