Self Advocates' Council of Community Living Toronto
Community Living Toronto
20 Spadina Rd., 2nd floor
Toronto, ON
M5R 2S7
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Mandate
- To solve a problem
- To bring self advocates together
- To break down barriers
- To tell about people's dreams and goals
- Advocating and supporting people
- To help other people and teach them how to be a member of Community Living Toronto
- We're part of a larger Ontario-wide group
- We're a team
- To help people have a voice
- To make life better
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Events
- We've created a handbook to explain what the council does and how to get involved.
- We have created the Sam Samler Award that we give every year to the top Self Advocate volunteer at Community living Toronto.
- We created a fundraising committee to help cover costs of going to conferences and buying food for our meetings. Some of the events we held include a dance, a barbecue and a raffle. We have raised over $3000.00 so far.
- The Council is asked by Community Living Toronto and other groups for its advice and input on plain language texts for example, the stakeholder survey and the "We Want to hear From You", passport funding and person centered planning brochures.
- Council members take part in the United Way Toronto Speakers Bureau.
- The Council has advised Community Living Toronto on its rights training workshops for people in service and staff.
- The Council advocated to CL Toronto for the purchase of its own computer with voice recognition software.
- The Council is a member of the O.D.S.P. Action Coalition. This coalition advocates/lobbies the government regarding improvements to the O.D.S.P.
- The Council and Community Living Toronto ran a workshop on how to vote before the last provincial election.
- Council members participate in the Passport Mentoring Program.
- The council took part in a research project at Ryerson University about alternative medicine and the disability community.
- Council members took part in a research project about the way people with intellectual disabilities are photographed in the mass media.
- Council members spoke about their concerns regarding Bill 77 at a Committee hearing at Queens Park.
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Self-Advocacy and Family Groups
