Additional
Resources for
Community Support Services
Additional
Resources for Community Support Services
In early July, the province announced just over $100 million in new funding for community support services, home care and supportive housing. These new investments are designed to increase the capacity of Ontario’s health care system to provide care and service at the community level and allow more people to get care in their own homes, thus reducing the strain on hospitals and freeing them up to focus on acute care.
The bulk of the funding - $73.2 million – will go to Community Care Access Centres (CCAC) to increase both acute and chronic home care, and end-of-life care. The government estimates that this new funding will enable an additional 21,000 Ontario residents to access such services this year. The announcement boosts funding for Ontario’s 42 CCACs, which coordinate the delivery of home care services, to $1.3 billion annually.
Health Minister George Smitherman also announced that an additional $22.2 million would be invested in community support services. It will provide people receiving home care greater access to transportation, meal programs, adult day programs, caregiver support, and homemaking services.
An additional $4.7 million will be available for supportive housing services, such as personal support service like bathing, grooming and dressing, homemaking services like house cleaning and laundry, as well as meal preparation and assistance with other daily activities, like shopping. Supportive housing allows the elderly, those with disabilities or people with conditions like HIV/AIDS to live as independently as possible with the help of supportive services.
For more information,
please visit: http://ogov.newswire.ca/ontario/GPOE/2004/07/05/c0412.html?lmatch=&lang=_e.html
and
http://ogov.newswire.ca/ontario/GPOE/2004/07/06/c0758.html?lmatch=&lang=_e.html
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Funding to Restore Community Use of Schools
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Child Care Announcement Signals Policy Shift
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Source: United Ways of Ontario's Government Relations Bulletin - Issue dd July 23, 2004
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