Lifetime Networks Ottawa Merges with
Citizen Advocacy of Ottawa
The Board of Directors of
Lifetime Networks Ottawa (LNO)
and
The Board of Directors of
Citizen Advocacy of Ottawa (CAO)
are pleased to announce
the merger of the two organizations effective immediately
following many months of research, discussions and negotiations
and pursuant to a unanimous LNO general membership vote on June 9, 2010.
Both organizations are excited about this new chapter with Lifetime Networks Ottawa benefitting from Citizen Advocacy’s resources, experience and history, and Citizen Advocacy looking forward to Lifetime Networks Ottawa’s expertise in developing and overseeing personal support networks for the lifetime of a person with a disability.
The new Advisory Committee of LNO under Citizen Advocacy Ottawa, and Brian Tardif, Executive Director of CAO, will strive to make the transition as smooth and seamless as possible. As in any new union, time for some adjustment is to be expected but at the same time an infusion of energy is already palpable. We are confident that in an environment of collaborative trust and working towards common goals, the adjustment will be short lived and the energy contagious.
Our telephone number remains unchanged:
613-748-7162
Website: www.lifetimenetworks.ca
New Email address: LNO@citizenadvocacy.org
New fax: 613-761-9525
New location and mailing address:
Lifetime Networks
Citizen Advocacy of Ottawa
1 Community Place
312 Parkdale Avenue
Ottawa ON K1Y 4X5
Elizabeth Snell Jack Murphy
Chair President and Chairman of the Board
Lifetime Networks Advisory Committee Citizen Advocacy of Ottawa
Board member
Citizen Advocacy of Ottawa
Download this announcement as a
pdf here
Special Medical Clinic for Adults with Developmental Disabilities
Let’s put our support behind this much needed initiative! Please write a letter of support by the June 25 deadline. Or, send your own individual story as to why these services are desperately needed. Send your (short) submission by email by clicking here: francois.groulxja@sympatico.ca
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Posted 2010-06-18
Familytalks.ca is a new interactive website created by
PLAN Institute that allows people to gather around a "virtual kitchen table" to have a "family talk" about possibilities – about our dreams and our fears – about the futures we want – about the world that we can imagine and co-create – about what’s working and not working – about our creativity to find new ways forward – about our collective responsibility for others – about our sources of inspiration. Familytalks is an opportunity to be heard – to hear others’ voices – to meet new people – to make new friends – to find fellow travelers. Familytalks is your conversation. On this site you will find many ways to get involved. Please take a few minutes to explore and get involved. We want your voice in the conversation.There are a number of groups and forums including one for people interested in social networks for people with a disability in the Ottawa area. Or start your own!
Posted 2010-05-11
Brock U. conference focuses on the rights of persons with intellectual disabilities
With Canada’s ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in March, it joins other countries in embracing one of the most powerful treaties to affect the rights of persons living with intellectual disabilities in our history.
On Wednesday, April 21 and Thursday, April 22, the 3Rs (Rights, Respect, Responsibility) Community-University Research Alliance will host a sold-out international conference at the Sheraton Fallsview Hotel in Niagara Falls, Ont., to celebrate this landmark achievement.More>>
Posted 2010-04-17
Barrett introduces ODSP bill
Enhancing the ability to be independent
Queen’s Park – Haldimand-Norfolk MPP Toby Barrett has just introduced a bill that proposes to keep more money in the hands of working ODSP recipients, and spells out incentives for employers to hire those with disabilities. Download the press release and read how you can help
Posted 2010-04-08
CACL Publishes Annual National Report Card
The Canadian Association for Community Living has issued an Inclusion of Canadians With Intellectual Disabilities Report, as it has since 2007, to track and report on progress we are making as a country in achieving the full inclusion of persons with intellectual disabilities. This 2009 Report Card presents data on three of their objectives – Deinstitutionalization, Income and Employment. A full Report Card (as was issued in 2008) that addresses progress in all 10 objectives is issued every five years. Download the report (PDF) here.
Canada Ratifies Historic UN Treaty On Disability Rights
New York, NY and Toronto, ON – March 11, 2010 – Today, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Canada ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This is a historic and profound moment in our country’s history. More>>
Posted 2010-03-25
Budget 2010 - The Canadian Government proposes amendments to the RDSP rules
See www.rdspadvisor.ca for details
Posted 2010-03-08
Please join us for our annual
"Family Leadership Training"
April 25 - 30th, 2010
This 5-day immersion will be of interest to families, disability leaders and their supporters who want to:
- Explore a new conceptual understanding of disability for the 21st century
- Create a good life for their family member with a disability
- Learn the nuts and bolts of building an organization based on relationships
- Construct a vehicle for independent advocacy and strengthen your ability to negotiate and relate to service providers, bureaucrats, lawyers, financial and estate planners
- Revitalize the family/parent movement in your area
- Integrate values into action
- Learn how emerging insights into caring citizenship are relevant to the contributions of persons with disabilities
Download the flyer here
Posted 2010-02-18
