Ontario continues to work with individuals with a developmental disability, their families, service providers and community organizations to create a progressive and modern system of community-based services and supports.
Since 2003, the government has committed more than $500 million in new supports for people with developmental disabilities. This money has gone towards:
- helping more than 700 residents move from the three remaining provincially-run facilities to homes in the community
- launching four Community Networks of Specialized Care to improve clinical supports for individuals with a developmental disability who also have mental health issues or challenging behaviours
- introducing video-conferencing technology to help adults with a developmental disability in rural southwestern Ontario and 46 remote northwestern communities gain better access to specialized clinical services
- implementing Passport, an initiative that provides activities in the community for people with a developmental disability who have left school
- helping people with developmental disabilities, their families and community agencies develop new and innovative residential models to help people with developmental services live in the community.
Learn more
From institutional life to community living:
How Ontario's services for people with a developmental disability have changed
What the new legislation will do
Spotlight on transformation – a developmental services bulletin from the Ministry of Community and Social Services
Report on Consultations Regarding the Transformation of Developmental Services – February 8, 2006
Ontario Government Improving Support for Ontarians with Developmental Disabilities – September 9, 2004 announcement