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Harvey Woods Lofts includes 80 independent apartments with staff support.

Blossom Park Townhomes consist of 27 one-bedroom townhouse-style apartments and tenants have access to housing support staff daily.

Blossom Park Apartments have 34 fully furnished one-bedroom apartments and tenants receive medication support, a daily hot meal, and additional supports from an interdisciplinary team made up of nurses, psychosocial, addiction, and housing support workers, and food security staff.

Woodstock and District Developmental Services has many services to offer. These include:


* Accommodation
* Supported Independent Living
* Family Services
* Summer Camp
* Day Services
* Employment Services
* Respite Services

T9-1-1 is a new service that enables individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing or speech impaired (DHHSI) to communicate with 9-1-1 operators via text message (SMS) during an emergency.

Provides Intervenor Services to people who are deafblind, of all ages across Ontario
Services offered:

• Housing Support
• Children and Family Services
• Training and Consultation Services
• Mentorship and Development
• Transition Planning
• Intervenor Services: Community and Residential

Wide variety of materials and resources. Expert assistance in locating, evaluating and using information. Research databases. Materials for children, teens and adults including fiction, non-fiction, audio visual and reference. Public access to computers, free wireless internet and mobile device charging stations. Large print books, magazines, newspapers, audio books, downloadable ebooks and audiobooks, digital magazines, DVD and CD's. Interlibrary loans, home delivery service, book clubs, special events and photocopying. Story time and children's programs, engaging programs for people of all ages. Technology help and MakerSpace with 3D printer and design stations.

Snack Stop:
SPL's Snack Stop stocks both snack foods and non-perishables that are free and available whenever the library is open.

Social Worker Drop-In Hours:
Services include brief individual and family counselling, as well as referrals to other community resources including addictions support, housing and other health and mental health services.
No appointments are required and services are first-come, first-served. For dates/times, click here

Ontario Caregiver Office Hours:
Drop-in for caregivers that need a little support or information. Katie Muirhead of Ontario Caregivers at the following dates/times, click here Registration is not required, simply drop-by the library. Contact Ontario Caregiver Helpline for 24/7 support at 1-833-416-2273

Career Connect Drop-In Hours:
For people new to Canada looking for help finding work or adapting your skills for the Canadian job market. Also for locals looking for a change of career? Drop-in for a chat with a Conestoga College Career Counselor to discuss next steps to build a career. Service open to anyone not already enrolled in formal schooling. For dates/times, click here. Questions? Email askspl@splibrary.ca or call 519-271-0220

End Period Poverty (Beginning Oct 2, 2023):
Menstrual supplies provided through the Huron-Perth Period Poverty Task Force at any library in Huron or Perth County.

Offer support and assistance to those living in Simcoe with eyesight, hearing, or speech disabilities

• assistance with the purchase of eyeglasses or hearing devices to those in need
  
• Leader Dog program for the blind

7 units available in an 80 unit apartment building. For adults with significant physical disabilities. Offers outreach attendant and supportive housing services. Provide consumers with 24-hour availability of service and daily bookings for attendant services. Provides assistance on a pre-arranged basis.

Assisted Living - Scheduled and unscheduled support for high-risk seniors or adults with physical disabilities. Available in individual homes, group homes or apartment clusters

Attendant Outreach - Scheduled support to assist adults with physical disabilities with daily activities to live independently at home.

Cheshire supports individuals with physical disabilities to live actively, independently and with dignity in their own community. In home supports for the activities of daily living, bathing, dressing, grooming, laundry and light housekeeping. Provides attendant services through outreach programs. Helps adults with a physical disability to live independently.

Assisted Living - Scheduled and unscheduled support for high-risk seniors or adults with physical disabilities. Available in individual homes, group homes or apartment clusters

Attendant Outreach - Scheduled support to assist adults with physical disabilities with daily activities to live independently at home

Brokerage services to help seniors and people living with disabilities find assistance with day-to-day tasks including snow shoveling, lawn care, light housekeeping and general maintenance.

The St. Marys Public Library offers a full range of print and multi-media resources. Books and videos may be renewed by telephone. Same library card can be used throughout Perth County.

Resources include:

• fiction, non-fiction, reference resources, research databases
• large print fiction and non-fiction
• children, magazines, books on tape and DVDs
• e-books and audio books
• public access computers and internet during hours of operation
• CD's for CNIB as well as access to readers from CNIB
• programs for all ages. Contact the library for more information.
• Summer Programs for children in Jul and Aug. Information HERE
• free kayak loan program - reserve online and pick-up keys, paddles and life jackets at library. More information HERE

Other services include: inter and intra-library loans, home delivery, video games, photocopying, scanning, faxing services, wireless access and free community telephone.

Library Food Pantry available during library hours. Take what you need and leave what you can. Friends of the Library fridge offers fresh items.

Hearing clinic

• Hearing tests, hearing aids, repairs and cleaning
  
• Swim and music plugs
  
• Tinnitus therapy
  
• Assistive listening devices
  
• Assistive Devices Program (ADP) registered vendor, registered WSIB vendor, registered VAC vendor
  

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

A school for the blind, low vision and deaf-blind
School offers:

• full elementary and secondary school program
• extra-curricular activities
• Expanded Care Curriculum (orientation and mobility, life skills, technology, and braille)

Supports for adults with physical disabilities and complex care needs

• helps people remain independent in their own homes for as long as possible
• referral to other community services
• provides supportive housing, respite care, outreach, and in-home and at-work personal support services

Supportive housing in two locations (10 Bell Lane and 255 Colborne St) with 24-hour 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

Hearing clinic

• Hearing tests, aids, repairs and cleaning
• Swim and music plugs
• Assistive listening devices
• Assistive Devices Program (ADP) registered vendor

Wheelchair basketball is a fun, fast-paced and exciting sport open to anyone with a physical disability age eight and over, along with their able bodied friends and family. The sport can be played by athletes with many different physical abilities and not all athletes who play require the use of a wheelchair for daily life.

This program delivers
one-to-one transitional support, rehabilitation and service coordination
to individuals in their home or community * services are flexible and
focus on skills training, improving quality of life and making
connections with other service providers and community resources * more
intensive services are available to support transitions from hospital to
home or long term care * services are available across the South West
and are generally offered from six to 12 months

Hearing clinic

• Hearing tests, aids, repairs and cleaning
• Swim and music plugs
• Assistive listening devices
• Assistive Devices Program (ADP) registered vendor

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

General Support Services:
Guidance, advocacy, support and counselling to Deaf and hard of hearing individuals who need assistance managing everyday life events such as completing government forms, navigating systems, and coping with hearing loss

Includes help with:

• completing forms and applications
• renewing driver's license and health card
• navigating government services
• attend meetings with yourself where additional support is needed

Hearing Care Counselling Services Ages 55+:
Assists seniors with hearing loss * Services include assessment and support for seniors with hearing loss to develop, maintain, or augment sensory capacity and promote maximum independence

Hearing Care Counsellor Program includes:

• virtual visits (or home visits as required)
• education
• demonstrate and recommend communication devices
• facilitate hard of hearing support groups
• teach hearing help classes and workshops

Hearing Care Counselling also provides in-service training to supportive housing, retirement homes and long-term care facilities

Health services organization for individuals with vision loss

Services include:

• training that enables people who are blind or partially sighted to develop or restore key daily living skills, helping enhance their independence, safety and mobility
• certified specialists work closely with ophthalmologists, optometrists and other health care professionals, providing essential care on a referral basis in homes and communities across Ontario

A volunteer based therapy dog visitation program for seniors' facilities such as retirement homes, nursing homes, Alzheimer day centres and hospitals