Reading Time: 3 minutes Individuals with developmental disabilities live longer than ever and that means the responsibility for care is shifting to siblings
Author: Helen Ries
Helen is a strategic thinker and analyst with expertise in stakeholder engagement, planning and program evaluation. Helen uses research to explore issues, develop practices and make changes in a way that is systematic and evidence-based.
Helen has a special interest in working with people, groups and organizations who are helping to improve the well-being of under-represented, excluded or vulnerable populations.
Helen has been in the non-profit and public sector since 2003 creating and evaluating programs, establishing performance measures, creating plans and strategy, analyzing and revising policy, and supporting people and organizations to build their capacity and effectiveness for better outcomes.
It’s time to change the culture of living with a disability in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes The disability family has been an afterthought for governments, service agencies and organizations for far too long
Ontario traps those with disabilities in lives of poverty
Reading Time: 4 minutes Restrictions on assets and gifts keep many in a state of deep and profound uncertainty and crisis, but other provinces have found a way out