Dear Portfolio Folk
The first clip you will see on my Blog in July is a clip on the closing on Institutions in Ontario. The music is in memorial to persons who have passed away while in care and did not have the freedom of living outside an institution. The Raise A Little Hell tune I felt was fitting as I was part of the early wave of staff training in the philosophy of Normalization that knew there had to be a better way then warehouse care. The keys are to identify how many places had to close before this dream could come true. The move to Community Living was a good move. Under recent budget cuts by current government parties there is a serious concern that the whole system will based on moving clients into private homes much like foster homes. will not work for many people and they will once again face the options of some kind of warehoused care. There are such places for " crisis management" a crisis that has been created by the current cuts in social services, being built. Whole agencies are loosing funding and there will be no Community programs for many of these people to go back to...I post this as a memory to what has been accomplished and a cautionary tale for the future." Those who forget their history are apt to repeat it."
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