6.. DARE TO CARE – A FEDERAL,
PROVINCIAL AND TERRITORIAL STRATEGY FOR A COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM OF SUPPORTS
FOR PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES OUI AUX SOINS –
STRATÉGIE FÉDÉRALE, PROVINCIALE ET TERRITORIALE EN VUE D’UN SYSTÈME COMPLET
DE SOUTIEN POUR LES PERSONNES SOUFFRANT D’UNE DÉFICIENCE DÉVELOPPEMENTALE |
That Council
endorse the recommendations in the Dare to Care paper produced by the Families Matter Co-operative.
Recommandation du comité
Que le Conseil municipal appuie les
recommandations de l’article intitulé Oui aux soins de la Families matter
Cooperative.
DOCUMENTATION
1.
Coordinator, Community and Protective Services
Committee report dated 8 June
2007 (ACS2007-CCS-CPS-0014).
Report to / Rapport au:
Community and Protective Services Committee
Comité des services de
protection et d’urgence
and Council / et au Conseil
8 June 2007 / le 8 juin 2007
Submitted by/Soumis par : Rosemary Nelson,
Coordinator,
Community and Protective Services Committee/
Coordonnatrice des services de protection et d’urgence
Contact
Person/Personne ressource : Peggy Feltmate
(613) 580-2752
Peggy.Feltmate@ottawa.ca
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SUBJECT: DARE
TO CARE – A FEDERAL, PROVINCIAL AND TERRITORIAL STRATEGY FOR A COMPREHENSIVE
SYSTEM OF SUPPORTS FOR PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
OBJET: OUI
AUX SOINS – STRATÉGIE FÉDÉRALE, PROVINCIALE ET TERRITORIALE EN VUE D’UN SYSTÈME
COMPLET DE SOUTIEN POUR LES PERSONNES SOUFFRANT D’UNE DÉFICIENCE
DÉVELOPPEMENTALE
That the Community and
Protective Services Committee recommend that Council endorse the
recommendations in the Dare to Care paper produced by the Families Matter Co-operative.
Que le
Comité des services communautaires et de protection recommande au Conseil
d’appuyer les recommandations de l’article intitulé Oui aux soins de la
Families matter Cooperative.
BACKGROUND
On 7 June 2007, Councillor Feltmate put forward the following Notice of Motion, for consideration at a subsequent meeting:
WHEREAS many
people with developmental disabilities do not have their basic needs met;
AND WHEREAS, as
parents who have been caring for children with developmental disabilities get
older, the situation will get worse;
AND WHEREAS, the
Dare to Care paper produced by the Families Matter Co-operative recommends a strategy for a comprehensive
support system for people with developmental disabilities;
THEREFORE BE IT
RESOLVED that the City of Ottawa endorse the recommendations in the Dare to
Care paper produced by the Families Matter Co-operative.
Currently, many people with developmental disabilities do not have their basic needs (food, clothing and shelter) met. In many cases other needs for self-worth including worthwhile employment are also lacking. Many live in desperate situations on incomes well below the poverty line. The Families Matter Co-operative finds this situation intolerable in a country as rich as Canada. People with developmental disabilities should and must have supports and services to meet their needs as do all other people, disabled or not. The basic premise of this document is that people with developmental disabilities are equal in intrinsic value to all other people.
This premise leads to the need for the development of national, provincial and territorial strategies for a comprehensive support system for all people with developmental disabilities. Without such a comprehensive support system, people with developmental disabilities will remain as second class citizens.
The Advocacy Committee of the
Families Matter Co-operative Inc. prepared a brief entitled “Dare to Care – A Federal, Provincial and Territorial
strategy for a comprehensive system of supports for people with developmental
disabilities (Document 1). The brief centres on three principle recommendations
that are needed in order to develop that comprehensive support system
throughout Canada:
Recommendation #1: That the federal government, if possible,
in co-operation with the provincial and territorial governments, establish a
national strategy for a comprehensive support system for people with
developmental disabilities throughout Canada by establishing National Standards
for that support system.
Recommendation #2: That the provincial and territorial
governments pass legislation to implement these National Standards for the
development of a comprehensive support system for people with developmental
disabilities throughout Canada.
Recommendation #3: That the federal government, in
co-operation with the provincial and territorial governments, develops cost
sharing arrangements to support the implementation of a comprehensive support
system for people with developmental disabilities throughout Canada.
The report also includes ten additional recommendations which provide
the elements needed for that comprehensive support system.
CONSULTATION
The Community and
Protective Services Department supports the recommendations of the Dare to
Care report.
FINANCIAL
IMPLICATIONS
N/A
Document 1 - “Dare to Care – A Federal, Provincial and Territorial
strategy for a comprehensive system of supports for people with developmental
disabilities (Previously Distributed)
Council and Committee Services
Staff, in consultation with staff from Community and Protective Services
Committee will prepare the appropriate letters of support.
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