When Wesley turned 18, instead of celebrating, they felt terrified. After 18 years of being supported by the same healthcare team, everything changed overnight.
“You’re accessing the same general team of professionals. Then with one birthday, one change, almost all of the contacts had to be swapped over to adult care providers,” says Wesley, who is now in their 20s. “All those relationships you’ve built over 18 years are just gone.”
Each year, September 30th marks the day for the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. The day honors the children who never returned home, the survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities. Public commemoration of the history and the ongoing impacts of residential schools is an important part of the reconciliation process. To help honor and acknowledge that, we wear orange 🧡
Nancy Huggett thought she’d lost the chance to become a writer after her daughter, who has Down syndrome, suffered a devastating stroke.
But the 66-year-old Ottawa poet has now become the oldest recipient of the RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award, an annual honour aiming to encourage new writing in short stories, creative nonfiction, journalism and poetry.
Read the news:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-poet-wins-acclaim-for-verses-on-caring-for-daughter-with-down-syndrome-1.7263218
We are happy to inform you that Marie-Josée Samson has accepted the role of Operations Supervisor with DSOER.
Marie-Josee has been an important member of the DSOER team since our launch in 2011. She has worked as a DSOER Service Navigator for several years and as an Assessor prior to then.
We are very happy to have her join our management group!
We also want to take this opportunity to introduce you (or re-introduce you) to our DSOER management group:
We encourage you to connect with DSOER at Admin@dsoer.ca. From there we can triage emails to the appropriate person and DSOER group. Should you want to connect directly with someone from our management group, our emails are listed above.
Together with our team of navigators, scheduler, assessors and matching & linking coordinator, we want to thank you for your continued support and collaboration in providing support to those we serve.
