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Jul/29 - Lawsuit by former Huronia residents will proceed
A sweeping class-action lawsuit from developmentally disabled people alleging decades of abuse at an Ontario institution could include tens of thousands of people from across the country, the plaintiffs' lawyer said Wednesday.Read More >>
Jul/27 - New publication of the CACL PFC Task Force on Deinstitutionalization released
The Right Way booklet is a guide for community and government leaders involved in planning the closure of institutions for persons with intellectual disabilities and the creation of supports to enable individuals to move from these institutions to their own homes in the community.Beginning with background information about institutions, community living, public policy and human rights, The Right Way presents principles and key elements for planning the closure of an institution based on lessons learned in Canada and elsewhere over the past 30 years. Our title, The Right Way, has been carefully chosen — not to suggest a single, correct approach, but as a bold statement emphasizing that how an institution is closed is just as important as the imperative that all institutions must be closed.
This document was prepared by the People First of Canada (PFC) — Canadian Association for Community Living (CACL) Joint Task Force on Deinstitutionalization.
To access this document, click Right Way Guide English or Right Way Guide French
Jul/26 - All experts agree that community-based living the way forward
HOW THEY DO IT ABROAD: MOST WEALTHY western countries have been closing down institutions for people with disabilities for the past 40 years.Read More>>
Jul/26 - Outdated, unsuitable institutions
More than 4,000 disabled Irish people live in homes that most developed countries would have shut long ago. In some, residents are still medicated to control their behaviour, writes Chief Reporter CARL O’BRIENRead More>>
The class action against the government on behalf of the many who were so badly treated at Huronia Regional Centre continues. The current success of that case has created interest in starting similar cases about the Rideau Regional Centre and the Southwestern Regional Centre to represent the former residents of those institutions as is happening with the Huronia Regional Centre case. By starting other actions about the similar abuses that occurred at other institutions, the province and the country will know that the government was wrong to have let these types of institutions operate. That is why People First of Ontario is asking for your help! The lawyers are looking for people to come forward to start cases against Rideau
Regional Centre and Southwestern Regional Centre.
Do you, or does your group/organization know of any people who lived or worked at Rideau Regional Centre or Southwestern Regional Centre who might be interested in joining a court action? Please try to find as many people to make sure we have enough people to start these cases. There is strength in numbers! We strongly believe that institutions have been very very bad for people who have been labelled. This is one way that finally peoples' voices will be heard!
Please help us build a case against Rideau Regional Centre and Southwestern Regional Centre!
If you know of anyone or can make a list of people, you can send this information to People First of Ontario through the following people below, or you can contact the lawyers directly at:
David Rosenfeld
Koskie Minsky LLP
Barristers & Solicitors
20 Queen Street West, Suite 900
Toronto, Ontario
M5H 3R3
Tel: (416) 595-2700
Fax: (416) 204-2894
email: drosenfeld@kmlaw.ca
website: www.kmlaw.ca
OR contact:
Peter Park: Lifetime Member, PFO and the representative to this case of behalf of PFO: peter.park@primus.ca
Kory Earle: President, PFO koryearle@hotmail.com
Doris Rajan: Advisor, PFO: d.rajan@rogers.com or call 416 409-7025
Emma Barken: Provincial Coordinator, PFO: emma.peoplefirstofontario@gmail.com
