The Ontario Coalition for Inclusive Education is an alliance of twelve provincial organizations committed to making inclusive education a reality in Ontario. The site is home to many documents of consultations with the Ontario Ministry of Education, reports and recommendations on policy and resources on inclusive education.
The Inclusion Press publishes resources on Inclusive Education. They also have online resources about education that will be valuable to teachers, parents, schools and policymakers.
The South-Eastern Ontario Community-University Research Alliance in Intellectual Disabilities has produced research on employment and people who have an intellectual disability. Among their topics are vocational satisfaction, employment trends and outcomes research.
Institution Watch is a joint venture website “monitoring the progress toward a vision of full community living for all persons with intellectual disabilities.” It is written and produced by the People First of Canada-Canadian Association for Community Living Joint Task Force on Deinstitutionalization:
End Exclusion is a national initiative of the Canadian Association for Community Living, The Council of Canadians with Disabilities and other partners with a vision of creating an inclusive and accessible Canada:
The Center for Outcomes Analysis is a non-profit firm founded in 1985 to perform evaluation, research, and demonstration projects in the human services and health care services. It produces valuable information resources on measuring quality of life of people receiving supports. The site also provides research papers documenting the history of deinstitutionalization in the United States:
The Individualized Funding Coalition of Ontario has been a driving force behind individualization in Ontario and the rest of Canada. Their site is host to a number of research documents, advocacy tools and information on individualization. www.individualizedfunding.ca
The Special Services at Home Coalition has published materials relevant to improving SSAH and individualized funding in Ontario.
The ODSP Action Coalition advocates for improvements to the income and employment supports provided by the Ontario Disability Support Program: http://www.odspaction.ca/
Restraints
Citizens Against Restraint
“Citizens Against Restraint is a group of citizens, family members and service workers who have come together because of our concern about the use of restraints in human services (health, education, community and social services). We all have personal friendships and/or family connections to people with various kinds of disabilities. Some of us also work in human services.”
The Citizens Against Restraint resource library is a source for articles, studies, policy papers and analysis on the use of restraint.
