Canadian CdLS Foundation

International CdLS Remembrance Day is February 12th 2025
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Join us for an international virtual event with the World Federation for CdLS Support Groups & the US CdLS Foundation to remember those with CdLS who have left us.

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: 2026 International CdLS Remembrance Day. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Losing a loved one with CdLS at any age is life-altering. Parents, siblings, grandparents, relatives, and friends experience profound grief, often accompanied by questions that have no easy answers. During these moments, the support of a compassionate community can make all the difference. Though th...

Families with adolescents and adults with CdLS often struggle with basic access to supports, services and programs to support challenging behaviours and or medical issues. Families are often left to bring their adult child to the emergency department as a last resort from where they are often placed in an adult inpatient ward. A unit that is not set-up or knowledgeable in caring for complex individuals with neuro-developmental disorders.

The investigation report into whether the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services and the Ministry of Health are taking adequate steps to address the inappropriate hospitalization of adults with developmental disabilities will be released Nov 25th.

We look forward to seeing how our society steps up to ensure every Canadian has access to basic respectable, competent and appropriate care.

More than 53,000 adults with intellectual disabilities in Ontario are still waiting for vital services. Decades of delay have left too many at risk of homelessness, human trafficking, criminal exploitation, and extreme poverty.

This cannot continue. Sign the petition today at Waiting2Belong.ca to help spread the word.

Today, Community Living Ontario and Inclusion Canada issued a joint press release in light of the deteriorating labour situation occurring across many agencies in the province. You can read the full press release by clicking here: https://communitylivingontario.ca/press-release-community-living-ontario-and-inclusion-canada-call-for-urgent-action-amid-labour-dispute-impacting-people-with-disabilities/