Did you know that there are 119 Community Living Ontario member agencies located across Ontario? This week all agencies are encouraged to join in and celebrate #CLMonth2024 by letting us know what #AuthenticInclusion looks like to you!
Please click on the link below to see what #AuthenticInclusion means to some of the wonderful people we support: https://www.wevideo.com/view/3414635961
Community Living Month is a province-wide annual awareness campaign to recognize the accomplishments of the Community Living movement across Ontario. Join us in this month’s celebrations as we show why #AuthenticInclusion matters for people who have an intellectual disability and their families.
April 30th Caledon Town Hall raised a Brampton Caledon Community Living Flag in support and Mayor Annette Groves alongside council members; Mario Russo, Cosimo Napoli and Doug Maskell, proclaimed full participation, inclusion and citizenship of people with an intellectual disability.
May 1st City of Brampton’s Mayor Patrick Brown proclaimed May as Community Living Month in the city council meeting. Photo of BCCL members alongside Mayor Patrick Brown and Regional Councilors: Paul Vincente, Rod Power, Rowena Santos and Navjit Kaur Brar
May 2nd Brampton City Hall’s Clock Tower lit up in Blue and Green for the social media campaign #ShineALight. Look out for other monuments and landmarks across the GTA for the month of May. BCCL’s 34 Church St Administrative office will be #ShineALight all May long
May 9th we encourage you to wear your Community Living colours( green and blue) and #TakeABreak with all of us. Every May thousands of Canadians come together to show their unwavering support for inclusion and belonging through the #ITookABreak2024 social media campaign started by Community Living Toronto. The BCCL Community Living Month Committee will be delivering KitKat chocolate bars to CLS, CPS and administrative offices and are encouraging everyone to take a break, take a selfie and share your photo with [email protected]
The Community Living Month Committee will also be asking our local community partners to celebrate with BCCL with our ‘Cookies N’ Community’ Campaign #CookiesN’Communty2024, a new campaign by BCCL to spread awareness and inclusion in our local communities of Brampton and Caledon.
Month Long Events to look out for:
If you are driving past Rose Garden Sqaure look up to the jumbotron where they will be displaying a BCCL created video titled, ‘What is Community Living?’
Brampton’s local recreation centers will be displaying celebration and awareness posters all month long
Caledon Library will be displaying celebration and awareness posters, and social media tags this month