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Resources we recommend
Food, Shelter, Purpose, Love & Belonging, we all share these basic human needs.
Some of us need door openers, advocates, skill developers, problem solvers and networkers to make sure we can fulfill these needs. This is what we do at Options!
Facilitator's Guide to Person-Directed Planning
A guide developed by six agencies delivering developmental services in Toronto funded by the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services to provide one or more service or support to individuals and their families. The following agencies participated in the development of this guide: Corbrook, Griffin Centre, Family Service Toronto, JVS Toronto, Operation Springboard, and Montage Support Services.
Read the guide in French (English version to be posted soon).
Online resources:
Developmental Services Toronto
http://www.dsto.com
Inclusion Press
www.inclusion.com
Philia – A Dialogue on Citizenship
http://www.philia.ca
Asset-Based Community Development:
www.abcdtraininggroup.org
Inclusion
for Children:
http://www.kidstogether.org/
The Stop Community Food Centre
http://www.thestop.org/
Fathers Network:
http://www.independentliving.org/donet/index.html
Toronto Public Library - Virtual Resource Library :
http://vrl.tpl.toronto.on.ca/
Art:
Niadart center
http://www.niadart.org
Creativity explored:
http://www.creativityexplored.org
Medical Resources:
Canadian Health Network:
http://www.canadian-health-network.ca
Canadian Sites on Disabilities:
Esmerel's List of Canadian
Disability Resources:
http://www.esmerel.org/canada
Canadian Association for Community Living
http://www.cacl.ca/
Special Services at Home:
http://www.gov.on.ca/CSS/page/brochure/spserv.html
World Institute on Disability:
http://www.wid.org
Books on Intellectual Disabilities:
The following is a list of books recommended by our counsellors. These books are written specifically for individuals with intellectual disabilities and their families or caregivers:
Connections: A
Planning Guide for Parents of Sons and Daughters with a Mental Handicap
by
Kenneth V. Pike and Pauline F. Steinman, published by the Brampton
Caledon Community Living and Fundy Regional Council Association or
Community Living.
The Wills Book: Benefits, Wills, Trusts
and Personal Decisions Involving People with Disabilities in Ontario
by
Louise Dickson and Rod Walsh, published by the Ontario Association
for Community Living
Network Safe and Secure: Six Steps to Creating
a Personal Future Plan for People with Disabilities
by
Al Etmanski and Vicki Cammack, published by Planned Lifetime Advocacy
Network
Stronger Together: Ideas, Reflections and
Suggestions about Networks of Support
by Bruce Kappel,
a publication of Support and Trustee Advisory Services of Brampton
Caledon.
Housing, Support and Community: Choices and
Strategies for Adults with Disabilities
by J.A. Racino,
Pamela Walker, Susan O'Connor, Steven J. Taylor, published by The
Community Participation Series.
