![]() This episode was advised by the Joint Task Force on Deinstitutionalization. Audio recording by Megan Linton with production assistance provided by Kendal David. Invisible Institutions was created by me, Megan Linton, with support from People First of Canada & Inclusion Canada’s Joint Task Force on Deinstitutionalization. Table 1: Available waitlists for community living services ProvinceĪ note that Kory Earle was the President of People First of Canada at the time of recording. Some other statistics I throw around in this episode about wait times are in this policy brief I wrote on access to residential care. In this episode, I talk a bit about restraint use in developmental services, these use Ontario stats because it is one of few provinces that has to report usage. Many residents were locked into their rooms as a pandemic precaution and kept away from close family members.” -Loreto, 2021 Residents of these facilities have complex care needs. “Group homes have been completely forgotten during the pandemic, especially facilities for disabled adults, like Participation House. Loreto interviewed Megan for an amazing Macleans article: The COVID outbreaks that Ontario wasn’t counting. Journalist Nora Loreto has kept the most up-to-date list of residential facility COVID-19 deaths. Megan sent out a flurry of Freedom of Information requests to each of the provinces, most of which refused to provide any information as a result of Personal Health Information Act protections. As a result, the impact of COVID-19 in group homes in Canada remains largely unknown. Unlike long-term care institutions, retirement homes, or hospitals, group home outbreaks and deaths were not disaggregated or reported. Data from the UK and the USA group homes, show high transmission rates, and higher infection and death rates within congregate living settings. In Canada, we don’t have a clue of the outbreaks and deaths in congregate settings. “Under the guise of protecting them, many provinces practise intense forms of segregation that expose people with intellectual disabilities to degrading and abusive treatment.” – Spagnuolo and Earle, 2017ĬOVID-19 has had a devastating impact on group home residents. Kory Earle and Natalie Spagnuolo wrote for the CCPA on the Long Road to Deinstitutionalization. We reference the report written by this week’s guest Jihan Abbas, More than a Footnote for the DisAbled Women’s Network. This episode uses reporting on The Garth Homer Society for the CBC by Bethany Lindsay. Partipation House, a Group Home in Markham where 6 people with developmental disabilities died during the pandemic Garth Homer Centre, in BC Show Notes Transcript available: Espe, in the concrete walled yard of the i nstitution where she lives, holds a small, solitary flower. Read the episode transcript below or by clicking on this link. With guests self-advocate Kory Earle and researcher Jihan Abbas. And while not all group homes are institutions, all group homes have the potential to become institutions. Today, group homes are the primary forms of supportive housing for labelled. Institutions remain responsible for the segregation and isolation of labelled people. This information will contextualize the experience for students and catalyze questions and discussion during the visit.In Canada, institutions for people with intellectual/developmental disabilities have never closed, they have changed faces and names. Prior to the FE, students will have explored the Invisible Institute’s website and a recent article on the killing of a young black male by police in Chicago, and responded to a set of questions about both. Students will take notes and ask questions during the site visit with Mr. Kalven has been an expert in the field for decades, and has most recently been producing video testimonies by Chicago youth who’ve experienced racist police tactics as a regular part of life. In this sense, it is firmly rooted in the democratic function of journalism, and focuses on investigative reporting that seeks to affect real change in the social and political spheres of Chicago, especially in the areas of police misconduct and corruption. The Invisible Institute is a journalistic organization operating on the city’s south side that seeks to not only report news, but also to inspire dialogue. ![]()
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