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Community Living Ajax-Pickering and Whitby offers a range of services that are accessed in different ways. The services and their descriptions have been listed below by the different ways of accessing them.

Access by directly contacting Community Living Ajax-Pickering and Whitby: 

Community Living Ajax-Pickering and Whitby currently does intake interviews and holds waiting lists for the following services:

Family Services and Case Management:

This program is designed to provide support to families that have a son or daughter with developmental disability. The program seeks to strengthen family involvement by providing information and support to advocate and assist in obtaining the appropriate resources and services for their family member.

Components of this program include:

• involvement in the service coordination process, education advocacy, assistance in making application to available funding sources
• family education, family group facilitation, long-term and short-term planning support
• and providing information regarding resources available in the community.

Community Participation Program:

The Community Participation program supports supports individuals to develop a more participatory lifestyle by providing participants with an equal opportunity to take part in meaningful and rewarding recreational and social activities.

The Community Participation Program strives to enhance the participants’ physical, emotional and social well-being by connecting individuals to meaningful community-based events and activities.

The program creates stronger ties to the community of its participants and therefore strengthens their sense of belonging to their community.

Vocational Services:

Vocational services provides a variety of learning opportunities to assist individuals with developmental disabilities to obtain employment and work experience in the community.

ARC Industries

ARC Industries has been in business since 1966 providing vocational training for people with developmental disabilities. We offer training in an industrial-like setting to develop job skills and encourage individuals to become competitively employed. We pride ourselves on the contract work that we have completed over the past decades. We offer a range of subcontract services with the quality you expect at competitive rates. Services available are packaging, collating, shrink wrapping and bus shelter maintenance services.

Community Employment Program

This program was developed and designed to provide a greater degree of community integration and to provide the necessary supports required to place and maintain individuals in community-based employment situations with the objectives to:.

• assist individuals in becoming an integral part of the community in which they are living
• work with the individual and community to locate work experience or competitive employment positions
• provide the level of training and support required for success in the workplace

Access through intake at any Durham Developmental Service Provider:

The following services can be accessed by going through an intake process at any Durham Developmental Service Provider.  The information provided at an intake interview will be put on a database of service providers in the Durham Region including those services being requested and which agencies are preferred to provide services if they become available. 

Group Home Program

The Group Home Program has been developed to provide a positive living environment that promotes and nurtures the mental, physical, emotional and social development of each person.

The program is designed to support individuals in the appropriate living environment to allow for his or her maximum growth and potential within our community.

The components of this program include:

• socialization and interpersonal skills,
• self-care, home management and domestic skills,
• food preparation and nutrition,
• money concepts, budgeting and banking skills,
• mobility and public transportation skills,
• use of medication and health care,
• communication skills,
• coping with emergencies,
• knowledge and use of community services,
• leisure & recreation skills.

Supported Independent Living Program (S.I.L.)

The S.I.L. Program is designed to provide assistance to adults who are able to live with limited support in independent community settings. The program may also be used to assist adults living with their families who wish assistance in learning the skills necessary to move to an independent setting.

The program emphasizes maintaining and upgrading skills necessary to participate to the fullest extent possible in community life.

Access through referral by the Central East Network of Specialized Care:

Mobile Resource Team and Residential Treatment Home (Forest View)

Forest View is a Central East Region Dual Diagnosis Resource, which includes two components: Mobile Resource Team and Residential Treatment Home.

Forest View is a part of the Central East Region Network of Specialized Care, a partnership of community based organizations that works together to provide professional services, consultations, teaching, education, training and research related activities for adults with developmental disabilities and mental health issues and/or challenging behaviour. Individuals with dual diagnosis access the Mobile Resource Team and/or specialized beds through the local Case Resolution Process.

Forest View Mobile Resource Team

This team consists of multidisciplinary team of professionals working in the fields of developmental disabilities, mental health and medical services, as well as advocacy and case management.

The Mobile Resource Team assesses the needs of individuals that are referred to Forest View for either admission, consultation for additional support or stabilization and treatment. The team assesses the referrals using the bio-psycho-social model. The team provides recommendations for supports for the individuals so that they may remain in the community, be admitted to Forest View, or receive other appropriate services.

Forest View Specialized Treatment Home

This home is a 24 hours residential treatment home for up to five individuals who have a dual diagnosis and/or behavioural difficulties. The treatment is up to one year, with the goal of assisting the individual to move back into their home community and to have a better quality of life.

Services brokered by Community Living Ajax-Pickering and Whitby:

Community Living Ajax-Pickering and Whitby also brokers funding for services that are funded through the Ministry of Community and Social Services. Primarily these services are for Individualized Funding arrangements where family members or guardians employ service workers for the care needed by the individual being supported.

For more information our services please contact us at info@apwcommunityliving.org. You may also call us at (905) 427-3300 from 8:30 a.m to 4:00 p.m.