Results Of Our 2022 QAM Compliance Review |
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Program advisors from the MCCSS Quality Assurance and Compliance team conducted an inspection of Community Living Essex County earlier this month.
We are happy to report that the agency performed exceptionally well, and was found to be in full compliance.
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Celebrating 18 Years of Volunteering!
Way to Go Cory!
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Over the past 18 years, Cory has volunteered twice a week with Meals on Wheels in his community of Leamington. Cory takes great pride in this responsibility and recognizes the importance of these weekly deliveries. He loves sharing with others how much he enjoys these responsibilities. On March 4th Cory attended a celebratory lunch at Colasanti's where he was presented with a certificate of appreciation for all of his hard work and commitment to Meals on Wheels. He proudly shows off his certificate and displays it in his home.
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Navigating to provide individuals with intellectual disabilities meaningful lives presents families with planning challenges.
As family caregivers we commit to ongoing support for all of our family members. For those with intellectual disabilities, long range planning takes on special importance. We are, in many cases, their eyes, ears and voices.
Do you have a “one stop” info package that guarantees that ALL of your family member’s needed supports are readily available, up to date and complete?
Why not access the free “Family Care Notebook“ below, provided by our American friends @ParentsHelpingParents (www.php.com)? Issues of disability have no border restrictions.
We as “families“ are in this TOGETHER - ENSEMBLE.
Assisting families to access possible solutions.
Your committee members,
Marilyn and Lois
Family Consultants
ensemble@communitylivingessex.org or 519-776-6483, ext 225
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Notice of Annual General Meeting and Call for Nominations to the Board of Directors |
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We will be holding our Annual General Meeting virtually again this year due to COVID 19. This year the AGM is taking place on Thursday, June 23 beginning at 6:30 pm. The agenda will feature the year in review, presentation of several awards, election of our Board of Directors, and presentation of the audited financial statements.
Please save this date and watch for registration information in the coming months.
The above flyer contains the AGM invitation and the Call for Nominations for the Board of Directors.
Submit your nominations to the Board of Directors before April 15th.
Send you nominations to:
Chairperson - c/o Executive Director
2022 Nominating Committee
Community Living Essex County
372 Talbot Street North
Essex, ON N8M 2W4
In order to be able to vote in this years Annual General Meeting you must renew or become a member by June 2nd.
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New Day hosted a fundraiser with Domino's Pizza on March 22nd and 23rd. They earned $5 every time someone ordered one of the special combos using the code. These fundraisers help New Day host activities and events and help self-advocates attend conferences.
New Day's Virtual meeting in March featured a guest speaker from the Essex County Library, Sherry Bondy. She gave us a tour of the Harrow Branch and told us all about the great services they provide at every branch. She also showed us all of the items you can rent with a library card. In the second part of our meeting, we learned all about bereavement and ways to cope with your feelings after losing someone you loved.
Save the date for April 5th at 8:00 pm. New Day will be speaking with Arms Bumanlag during his podcast "The Arms Bumanlag Project". We will be talking about New Day, what we have done over the year and what is next for our group. You can tune in on Facebook or by going to the below link to listen in. We are very excited for this opportunity.
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Moving Beyond the Pandemic
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Just when it seemed like COVID-19 was under control, Omicron set in, and since then families across Ontario have braved yet another wave.
Ontario's top medical officers and health experts are confident the worst is over. Vaccines and rapid tests are available at your local pharmacy and grocery stores. They have what you need to stay safe.
While many people still feel hesitant, and a little unsure, there are ways that you can begin to strike a balance, get out and about and feel less burnt out or isolated.
Below are some action guides from P4P Planning Network. You can begin to move forward one day at a time. We're in this together!
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Help Improve Employment Supports in Your Community - Have Your Say! |
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The Government of Ontario is transforming the employment services system. The City of Windsor has qualified for the next stage in the process to become the Service System Manager (SSM) and is interested in servicing the Windsor-Essex, Chatham-Kent, and Sarnia-Lambton catchment area.
The City of Windsor has asked its partner, Workforce WindsorEssex, to assist with some research and community consultations in the Windsor-Essex, Chatham-Kent, and Sarnia-Lambton regions that can collect feedback from employers, jobseekers, and interested service providers.
The goal of the consultations is to inform research and create a system that is outcomes-focused, client-centred, and provides a simplified and effective pathway to finding sustainable employment for individuals and employers, based on their needs. They want to hear from employers, jobseekers, and interested service providers in the three regions to understand how employment services in your area can be modernized and how they can connect individuals with employment and training opportunities. Engaging a diverse range of voices is critical to developing a new model so they hope you will participate in one of the upcoming consultations.
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Calling All Self-Advocates |
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Are you passionate about advocacy and making a difference in the lives of people who have a disability? Do you have a concern or question about an issue that affects your life as a person who has a disability? If you answered "yes", then Community Living Ontario invites you to an upcoming webinar. Join in this safe space for the opportunity to share and discuss important issues like poverty, ODSP, housing, congregate living, and health care.
Speakers:
- James Taylor - Council Member
- Scott Schihl - Council Member
Host:
- Meaghan Mitchell - Council Engagement Coordinator - CLO
Wednesday March 30th 6:00–7:00 pm
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Community of Practice:
Together, We Are on the ‘Journey to Belonging’
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The Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services ‘Journey to Belonging: Choice and Inclusion’ framework is a long-term vision where people with developmental disabilities fully belong in their communities and are supported to live the lives they choose. People, their families, and the agencies supporting them have been on this path for years, and have made much progress. But the landscape keeps changing, much so over the past two years.
Join on April 7th from 11 am - 12:30 pm for the next Community of Practice, where they will take stock of our current surroundings and revisit the values that will guide their actions moving forward.
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Community Living Ontario is excited to announce a new strategic partnership with Inclusive Instruments!
At Inclusive Instruments, the mission is to create a truly inclusive community through music, and to create meaningful social connections for anyone living with a disability.
Inclusive Instruments offers adaptive musical instruments, as well as inclusive music sessions for musicians of all levels and abilities as a forum for everyone to connect with a musical community.
Inclusive Instruments has a variety of Adaptive Musical Instruments available for sale, starting with the Adaptive Acoustic Guitar, Adaptive Electric Guitar, and the “Air Guitar” – an instrument that detects arm movement to play music.
Inclusive Instruments is also offering Inclusive Music sessions - online sessions where participants can create a recording and make music with other musicians in a truly inclusive way. All levels of experience and ability are always welcome! Plus, after a 10-week cycle, the recordings that were made are shared at a listening party aiming to build community through music.
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NASA At Home - Free Virtual Tours |
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NASA is exploring our solar system and beyond, uncovering worlds, stars and cosmic mysteries near and far with their powerful fleet of space and ground-based missions.
Explore the facilities. View their laboratories. Enter their operations control centres.
Tour NASA virtually from the comfort of your home or convenience of your mobile device.
View e-books, podcasts, tours, videos, and more.
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Walk In The Woods Book Launch |
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Join a poetry reading, questions and answers with the audience and a book signing for Walk in the Woods, with author and photographer Marty Gervais.
Walk In The Woods is an adventure story about going out on the best and worst days of the year and taking a walk in the wetlands, forest, savanna, and prairie areas near edges of Windsor. This book caught the attention of the legendary environmentalist activist David Suzuki, who said Ojibway was a "priceless...tiny pocket of nature that reminds us, perhaps, of what once was and what could be..."
River Bookshop hosts this amazing launch. Join for a night of adventure.
March 24th 7:00 – 8:30 pm at River Bookshop - 67 Richmond Street, Amherstburg
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Clay Imprints with Plants and Flowers |
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Supplies:
- Clay or salt dough
- Smooth surface to work on
- Plastic table cloth or a very smooth kitchen cutting board
- Flowers or plants
- Rolling pin or water bottle that has smooth sides
- Craft paint to add the green or flower colours
- Chopstick or skewer to poke a hole
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Salt Dough Recipe:
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup salt
- 1/2 cup water
- Mix the salt and flour in a large bowl.
- Make a well in the salt/flour mixture and add the water.
- Knead until smooth and shape into a ball.
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If you want to colour your salt dough, simply mix in a few drops of food colouring while you are kneading it.
- Bake at 200 F until dry. The amount of time depends on the size and thickness of your masterpiece. Thin flat ornaments may only take 45-60 minutes, but thicker ones like the ones can take 2-3 hours or more.
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- Roll your clay or salt dough flat.
- Make shapes, you can use cookie cutters.
- Place a bit of plant or flower onto the clay and roll over it gently with a smooth water bottle or rolling pin.
- Pull the plant off the clay.
- If you want to add a hole-this is the time to do so.
- Find things around the house with interesting textures to imprint the clay.
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Bake the salt dough or allow the clay to dry overnight. It should feel completely dry before you paint it. |
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Is It Cake?
Is it real, or cake? In a cake baking competition, contestants must bake cakes that not only taste good, but don't look like cake. Cakes are made to look as close to all things not baked, from other food to clothes, to even mundane objects. Streaming on Netflix.
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Easy and Quick Halushki
Simple and tasty, this Polish dish combines bacon, fried cabbage and egg noodles. It only takes half an hour to prepare.
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Laughter is the Best Medicine |
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What is your favourite spring activity?
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What makes you feel lucky?
A four-leaf clover ~ 38.5%
A horseshoe ~ 7.7%
The number 7 ~ 26.9%
A lucky penny ~ 23.1%
A rabbit's foot ~ 3.8%
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