Proposal for (A transitional house for the disabled)
By:
Mary Noel-Morris
Table of Contents
I. Title Page 1
II. Table of Contents 2
III. Summary of Proposal 3
IV. Problem Statement 3 - 4
V. Goals and Objectives 5 - 6
VI. Project Activities 7
VII. Evaluation 11
VIII. Budget Summary 12
IX. Program Budget 15
X. The Group Process 17
Summary Statement
In the 19th Century, The Government of Canada opened the first institution in 1876, for people with developmental disability just outside of Orillia. The facility had 2,600 residents by the year, 1968.
The number of institutions and the residents were growing continually in the early 1970s. By
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These individual may want their own freedom to do whatever they want to do especially drinking or taking drugs. If they are on their own out there, they’ll probably stop taking their prescribed medications.
In reality, there are lots of families that are in crisis and when support or help are needed, there’s no choice within the community. People with disabilities and their families should not be forced to select an institution, if they are disabled. They should have the choice to be treated in the comfort of their own home.
There are many barriers that make it hard to solve the problem and it is all because of insufficient funding for programs. In Ontario, the average hourly rate for non-medical home support, which includes companionship and personal assistance, is $20 to $30. The clients that require nursing visits or therapy cost about $50 - $60.
Another problem is when some individuals with or without disability do not qualify for Social Security or In-home care Services. When this occurs, those people would have to remain in the nursing home because there is no one who can help care for them.
We believe what we are proposing is going to make a difference because:
1. There’s a need for programs for people with disabilities who do not need to be in an institution and these programs had not been established.
2. It will expand on In-home Care Services.
3. This program will help
“It's an important thing in our community. We support it and I'm glad the community supports it,” said Commissioner Rob Ault of the Training Center and services provided by the DD Board. “It's very important to the community. It affects a lot of families. We appreciate everything you do. There's not one of us who doesn't have some sort of disability in our family.”
The lack of accessibility is crippling for physically disabled people. This often leads to isolation and depression. Many disabled people have to move to big city to have the accommodations they need (special doctors, accommodating transportation, disabled friendly activities, etc.). The cost of living in these cities is so high that on top of therapy
Another problem is when some individuals with or without disability do not qualify for Social Security or In-home care Services. When this occurs, those people would have to remain in the nursing home because there is no one who can help care for them.
Many times, residents are put in the assisted livings or nursing homes because their family can’t take care of them. As a result, they lose much independence, and their health tends to decline faster than if they were
Several aspects of the organization, including the quality and price of its services, are pre-existing strengths the organization can leverage to expand its donor base. The center provides consumer-controlled services, meaning that its programs are custom-tailored to fit the needs of its consumers. Services are available to people with physical, mental, sensory or cognitive disabilities. If the center only helped individuals with one type of disability, the target audience would be narrow, but because the center helps individuals on a cross-disability basis, a wider range of donors can be targeted.
“The first institutions were” built in large towns “with private funds” (Cayton). For example, “Boston’s first institution was built “with private funds” (Cayton). After the first institution was built other communities began to establish institutions. These institutions housed more than just the mentally ill. They took in the poor, homeless, old, and “disabled”. Institutions were more than a housing for the mentally ill, they were a shelter for people in need. But the ill were better off on their own. Institutions back then had horrible living conditions, including dungeons and chains for the mentally ill. Institutions were more like prisons rather than hospitals. “The mentally ill were” housed in “dark, damp, and poorly heated wing of hospitals” (Cayton). Some these institutions used full body restraints for patients who were too out of control. This was what the first institutions were
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During the 1950s, people who had a disability had two options of housing which included living with their families or living in an institution. However, families did not receive much support since most public welfare services were used towards institutional care, such as mental hospitals and orphanages. Throughout the 1960s there were movements to deinstitutionalize, which at that time basically led to smaller institutions. The 1970s allowed for even smaller community-based residential services that were typically designed for not more than 12 people that were similar in terms of age, independence, or ability. Even though different funding was available, many standards were violated in most of the institutions. Throughout the 70s there were movements to close state institutions and provide more community residential services as well as family support. During the 1980s groundwork for families was laid to expand their control of the nature of the support they received and more options were available to help out with living outside an institution. People with developmental disabilities began to gain increased support to having homes of their own during the 1990s and funded had dramatically increased to over $735 for family support programs in 1998. In 2001 the federal government began a new freedom initiative to “remove barriers to community living for people of all ages with disabilities and long-term illness.” In 2011 the decision that the isolation of people with
All they want is to take part of society as a normal individual. The disability-movement has fought for the disabilities rights throughout the years and has achieved goals such as accommodation of architectural infrastructures to serve better people who are physical impairments. The public policies have been great accomplishments because it has helped people with disabilities to be part of society. The disability-movement points out the healthcare finance policies have taken freedom away from the disability community, “ Health-care financing policies force disabled people into Institutions and nursing homes rather than funding independent living. Income-maintenance and public health-insurance policies include “disincentives” that penalize disabled individuals for trying to work productively.”(p.4). The government has done a great job on protecting disabled individuals’ rights. However, the health-care system has isolated this group even more by restricting the level of productivity that they have within the system, as a result this medical model marginalizes this group of people and this program available for this community does not fully address their issues.
In this film Unforgotten: 25 Years After Willow brook we meet several people that have a family member whom is disabled and they share with us moving heartwarming stories of the pain having to give up members of their families to certain facilities because that was what all the experts would recommend at that time. Doctors as well as other family members would all encourage the parents of a child who is developmentally disabled to put the child into an institution and to just leave them there as if they mean nothing to them. There’s even a story of a man who told his family that the
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These individual may want their own freedom to do whatever they want to do especially drinking or taking drugs. If they are on their own out there, they’ll probably stop taking their prescribed medications.
In the late spring of 1999, the United States Supreme Court issued the Olmstead v. L. C. choice. In view of this choice, regulated crippled people now have a decision in whether they are to stay in their present office or to move out into the group. The Court 's historic point choice all things considered without a doubt difficulties our Federal, state, and nearby governments to grow more open doors for people with handicaps through extra available frameworks of savvy group based administrations. After the Olmstead choice, the U.S. Branch of Health and Human Services prescribed that every state build up a composed "Olmstead Plan" to guarantee consistence with the Supreme Court 's choice. At the date of this proposition, the State of California has been resistant in that achievement choice; the state has not made an arrangement out of activity to de-systematize those with incapacities who are skilled, with assistance from group benefit projects, of dwelling in the group setting.
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