Empowering Independence: Exploring Community Living Mississauga's New Initiatives
Empowering Independence: Exploring Community Living Mississauga's New Initiatives
Empowering Independence: Exploring Community Living Mississauga's New Initiatives
Independence: the ability to live life without undue influence, make personal decisions, and even make mistakes. This is a fundamental right for everyone, including those with intellectual disabilities.
In this episode of Community Living Out Loud. Host Peter Reynolds is joined by Diana Lopez and Lorraine Montgomery of Community Living Mississauga to discuss the importance of independence for individuals with intellectual disabilities and explore two new innovative programs: Choices for Inclusive Living and Living the Dream.
If you'd like more information on either of these programs or any other services Community Living Mississauga provides, please contact:
Community Living Mississauga (Head office)
(905) 542-2694
Choices for Independent Living
Lorraine Montgomery lorrainemo@clmiss.ca
Living the Dream
Diana Lopez: dianalo@clmiss.ca
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https://youtu.be/_LSiybwxSI8
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From The Podcast
Community Living Out Loud
Welcome to Community Living Out Loud, brought to you by Community Living Mississauga. On this podcast we celebrate the lives of people who have an intellectual disability and the incredible work being done to advocate for them and their families. Through conversations with experts, advocates, and individuals with lived experiences, we hope to inspire and educate listeners on the importance of building strong, supportive communities.Founded in 1955, Community Living Mississauga is a non-profit, charitable organization which provides support to people who have an intellectual disability.Our mission is to provide support to people who have an intellectual disability to ensure their quality of life in the community is meaningfully improved.Our vision is that all people will live in a state of dignity and respect, and share in all elements of living in a community which is welcoming, accepting and inclusive of everyone. All people will have the freedom to make choices and decisions that enable them to achieve self-determination.We believe that people who have an intellectual disability have a right to live in the community and to participate actively in community life. Each person, regardless of disability, should enjoy the full rights of citizenship and the full experience of membership in the community. We are governed by a volunteer Board of Directors consisting of people we support, family members and concerned members of the community.Join Podchaser to...
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