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Program offers financial assistance to low to moderate-income families to:

• repair their home to bring to acceptable standards while improving the energy efficiency of the unit
  
• increase the accessibility of their unit through modifications and adaptation
  
• create a new affordable rental unit in an existing single family home

The City's windrow clearing program helps seniors age 65+ and residents with disabilities or medical conditions who are unable to clear the windrow on their own

Definition: A snow windrow is the pile of snow that is left at the bottom of a driveway after the snowplow has cleared the road

Responsible for the administration and management of housing units and provides rent supplements within the City of Brantford and the County of Brant

Administers homelessness programs:

• Ontario Renovates program - a homeowner's financial assistance home maintenance repair program, for low to moderate-income households
  
• B-Home (Brantford Home Ownership Made Easier) program - gives financial assistance for a down payment on a home, to low-income earners

Municipal Housing - a division of the City of Brantford Housing Department

• provides professional property management services for city-owned residential housing located within the City of Brantford and County of Brant County, including both subsidized and non-subsidized residential housing properties
  
• provides contract management services for municipal and private non-profit housing corporations on a fee-for-service basis

Rent geared-to-income housing for men and women living with a serious mental illness in Brantford and Brant County through various funding agreements with the federal or provincial government

Lyons Avenue - cooperative setting for 8 adults

• staff are available to assist tenants to live successfully in the community
• each tenant has a private, furnished bedroom and common areas are shared
• tenants are required to share weekly chores
• rent is geared to income according to the social assistance scale approved by the federal government

Phoenix Place - affordable one-bedroom and two-bedroom units for adults living with a serious mental illness, and who are homeless or at risk of being homeless

• rent is set at the maximum allowed by Ontario Works or O.D.S.P.

Rent supplement units are available at a variety of locations across Brantford and Brant County through referral agreements with private landlords. Rent is the maximum shelter allowance set by Ontario Works or O.D.S.P., including utilities where applicable

Services include:

• community support is available to all tenants in Supported Housing if needed
• goal planning assistance
• referral to other needed services
• monitoring of symptoms and medications
• advocacy
• peer support

Provides in-home nursing services through three pillars of care

Taking Care

• caring companionship
  
• groceries and errands
  
• light housekeeping
  
• outings and community experiences
  
• transportation to and from appointments

Enriched Care

• activities of daily living: bathing, dressing, and toileting
  
• Alzheimer's and dementia support
  
• ensure home safety
  
• meal preparation and assistance (if required)
  
• medication management (and reminders)

Vital Care

• end of life care
  
• live-in caring
  
• skilled nurse caring
  
• special needs caring
  
• wound care, post-operative caring, complex caring

Provides and advocates for a full range of community-based services for people with developmental disabilities including accommodation, employment, respite, community access, planning and Passport supports

Provides non-medical care for seniors and others in need to help them remain safe and comfortable in their own homes

Services include:

• companionship
  
• home helper
  
• personal care
  
• Alzheimer's and Dementia care
  
• respite care
  
• attendant care (motor vehicle accidents)

In-home health care services including nursing and personal support * services provided by nurses and personal support workers

• Alzheimer's care
  
• senior companionship
  
• personal care
  
• palliative care
  
• respite care

In-home supports for the activities of daily living

• personal support worker helps with personal care
  
• medication monitoring
  
• assistance with the activities of daily living
  
• bathing, dressing, grooming
  
• simple wound dressings
  
• blood sugar and blood pressure monitoring
  
• basic homemaking
  
• laundry
  
• light housekeeping

Provides rehabilitation services for people living with the effects of an acquired brain injury

Offers:

• functional goal attainment
• skill training (budgeting, organization, cooking, etc)
• encouraging independence with activities of daily living
• 24-hour access to internal crisis line (i.e. HelpLine)
• virtual care services (visits, counselling with social worker, therapeutic groups)
• linking and accessing community resources
• teaching strategies to improve self-direction and memory
• helping with appointment preparations (pre, during, post)
• exploring vocational and avocational pursuits

Full service home care agency with staffing from homemakers through registered nursing staff

• homemaking
  
• personal care
  
• housekeeping
  
• respite care
  
• nursing services
  
• transportation to and from appointments

Personalized home care

Services include:

• personal care
  
• errand services
  
• respite care
  
• appointment escorting
  
• recreational outings
  
• housekeeping
  
• laundry
  
• palliative care
  
• compassionate care
  
• extreme cleaning
  
• one-on-one visits

Regional service to assist family, community and long-term care providers in the continuing care of older adults with complex cognitive, emotional and behavioural disorders

• specialized assessment, consultation, treatment and short-term specialty case management and intervention
  
• education and community/program development, community homes, retirement, and supportive housing and long-term care facilities

Wait times can be upwards of 5-6 months to see a psychiatrist

Access to health care support at home, at school, or in the community

care coordinators work with people in the community or leaving the hospital to determine what help is needed and arrange for care

care is provided in community settings such as the home, school, residential facility or Home and Community Care Support Services community clinic

referral to other community services when appropriate

Services may include:

• nursing
• nurse practitioner
• personal support
• physiotherapy or occupational therapy
• speech and language therapy
• social work
• nutrition and food counselling (dietitians)
• end-of-life care
• medical supplies and equipment (patient-specific supplies for Home and Community Care Support Services care, such as catheters,
• ostomy bags, or wound care supplies)
• access to long-term care homes
• access to supported living (adult day programs, supportive housing, retirement homes, and assisted living)
• health support in the school
• specialized services for people living with specific health conditions
• referral to other community supports

Housekeeping

• whole house cleaning
• some hoarding cleaning available - with assessment

Senior services

• respite
• Alzheimer's care
• overnight assistance
• meal preparation
• showering/toileting/personal hygiene assistance
• home health care services

Supports for older adults, adults with disabilities, children and children with disabilities. helps people remain independent in their own homes for as long as possible

Services include:

Companionship

• personal visits
• outings or special events

Home Support

• light housekeeping
• meal preparation
• laundry
• escorting clients on shopping trips and appointments

Nursing

• administering medication
• changing dressings
• basic and advanced foot care
• intravenous therapy
• pain and symptom management
• chronic disease management and therapy
• ventilator care
• peritoneal dialysis
• serious injury care

Personal Care

• personal hygiene
• medication reminders
• dressing
• assistance with eating
• helping clients move safely into chairs, beds or vehicles

Respite Care

Offering a complete range of nursing and home care support services

• insured
  
• bonded

Services:

• homemaking
  
• personal care
  
• nursing care
  
• assistance with activities of daily living
  
• short-term or long-term care
  
• palliative care
  
• home, hospital or facility care

Provides and advocates for a full range of community-based services for people with developmental disabilities including accommodation, employment, respite, community access, planning and family supports

Disease prevention and health promotion, providing a wide range of health and social services to the community

Programs offered:

• Home support/long term care - personal support, light housekeeping and relief services for seniors and disabled in the community
• Family support - prevention and intervention, counselling with adults, youth and children as well as parenting classes and other groups as deemed appropriate and providing an intake process to assist with internal/external referrals
• Community wellness workers - offers youth prevention, social education, community awareness
• Human service cook - provides breakfast program for the children attending LSK Elementary School and prepares the Meals on Wheels program for the elderly
• Ontario Works (Welfare/employment) - provides temporary financial assistance in company with employment counselling, support in life skills, and literacy to help reintegrate them into the work force
• Employment and training - services available: job board, internet access, resume assistance, job fax service, resource materials

Programs Available:

• Target Wage Subsidy
• Job Creation
• Training Purchase
• Employment Assistance
• Self-Employment Assistance
• Small Business Support Program
• Mobility Assistance
• Alter-Abled Initiative
• Youth Work Experience
• Stay In School Initiative

In home hair services * Haircuts, (men and women), perms, wash/cut/blowdry and style, hair sets.

Medical and Non-medical In-Home Support Services including nursing skilled care (wound care , IV, assessments). Provides range of support including:

• Companionship and Housekeeping: Transportation, shopping and errands (with or on behalf of client), light housekeeping, meal preparation, socialization, respite care and more
• Physical Assistance: Ambulation assistance, dressing, transfers, post hospital support, hourly/overnight or 24/7
• Alzheimer's and Dementia Care
• Handyman Services
• Daily Reassurance/Medication Reminders
• Care Coordination
• Connect Care Personal Alert

Home and Community Care Support Services Waterloo Wellington (formerly the Waterloo Wellington LHIN) is a crown agency of the government of Ontario, funded by the Ministry and Health and Long-Term Care. Invests $1.1 billion annually in local health services to support the health needs of residents across Waterloo Wellington.

Provides rehabilitation services for people living with the effects of an acquired brain injury

Offers:

• functional goal attainment
• skill training (budgeting, organization, cooking, etc)
• encouraging independence with activities of daily living
• 24-hour access to internal crisis line (i.e. HelpLine)
• virtual care services (visits, counselling with social worker, therapeutic groups)
• linking and accessing community resources
• teaching strategies to improve self-direction and memory
• helping with appointment preparations (pre, during, post)
• exploring vocational and avocational pursuits

Provides assistance for individuals with developmental disabilities and their families to help them navigate the developmental services system in Ontario. Case Management is a collaborative, client driven process for the provision of quality health and support services through effective and efficient use of resources. Case Management supports the client's achievement of safe, realistic, reasonable goals within a complex health, social and financial environment.

CHOICES supports the National Case Management Network definition and principles of Case Management. This assistance is focused on the client's development, in combination with the available resources in the developmental services system as funded by the Ministry of Community and Social Services.