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CLH Foundation, with input from our colleagues at CLH Developmental Support Services and members of the CLH-supported community, has identified four funding priorities to address the most pressing needs for CLH-supported individuals: A Commitment to Care, Bridging the Gap, Foundation for Success, and Community Participation. Your donations directly benefit the individuals served by CLH; every dollar makes a positive difference.
CLH Developmental Support Services provides extensive community-based programs for adults with disabilities. The agency also delivers exceptional, compassionate 24/7 lifetime care to 90 adults who live in CLH Supported Living Homes located in Midland, Penetanguishene, Victoria Harbour, Port McNicoll and Waubaushene. As well as ensuring safe, stable housing, nutritious food and excellent medical care, CLH DSS provides above and beyond supports that supported individuals need to be physically, mentally and emotionally healthy – including feeling engaged with their communities.
This includes covering 100% of the costs – $110,000 annually – of critically needed but unfunded medical and personal health essentials for people in our care. This is a practice unique to CLH and has been in place forever. In other organizations, individuals or their families would be expected to pay, and most could not. It would be simply impossible. Today, with rapidly rising prices and new funding challenges, CLH DSS is experiencing more and more of a challenge to continue these critical services.
In response, CLH Foundation has made A Commitment to Care a continuing priority of our fundraising efforts, to ensure that this practice continues, and that everyone in our community can continue to thrive – with care, comfort and dignity.
This supports a practice that is unique to CLH and has been in place since the beginning, one that nurtures health, dignity and the opportunity to thrive.
CLH Foundation created the Bridging the Gap initiative in 2020 in recognition of the additional pressures created by the pandemic for members of the CLH Supported Independent Living (SIL) program. Since then, the program has grown in remarkable ways and aims to address the significant ongoing challenges SIL members face surrounding food insecurity and the dignity of choice, access to essential items and basic need support. These are challenges which are outside the mandate and funding of CLH Developmental Support Services to address but nonetheless are recognized as significant and urgent to address. During the first years of the pandemic the initiative supported several innovative solutions to reduce isolation and lack of social connection. More recently, donations to Bridging the Gap have supported the purchase of grocery cards, provided a “pantry re-stock”, and the provision of winter-ready clothing. In December 2022, generous community members collectively donated more than $5000 worth of essential grocery, household and hygiene items for SIL members, donations that helped stretch very tight budgets a little bit further.
The Foundation for Success program is an ongoing commitment by CLH Foundation to provide urgent funding to individuals who are served by CLH Developmental Support Services but are ineligible for other funding, and whose limited income is a barrier to access and participation. Through an application and review process, Foundation for Success provides critical, personalized support in four areas: essential needs; health needs and assistive devices; community and social inclusion; and personal development and skill building. This program fills in where the need is great but other sources of individual funding support have been exhausted or simply do not exist, for requests both large and small. One recent example included anesthetic and post-operative pain management for an individual undergoing extensive dental surgery; only the surgery was covered by government funding, the pain management was not. Foundation for Success covered this expense.
CLH Developmental Support Services provides vital support, enrichment and social connection to adult members of the CLH-supported community through “CPS” – Community Participation Supports. Among many other benefits to participants, this weekday program includes professional direct support staff who deliver well-supported experiences with a focus on skill-building, physical activity, social engagement and community connection.
The Community Participation initiative ensures that CLH Foundation can support new CPS program opportunities as they present themselves, and continue to underwrite special occasions such as Christmas Dinner and Dance, Fall Hoedown, CLH Hockey Classic, bus trips, special recognition days and CLH-community celebrations.
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339 Olive Street
Midland, Ontario L4R 2R4
Charitable Number: 868370099 RR0001
Sarah Kitchen is an aesthetician and the owner of One Stop Beauty Shop. Sarah works full time with her full aesthetic clientele, frequently upgrades her technical skills, and manages a thriving business and staff. In 2010, Sarah was awarded a Meridian Women of Excellence Award, and sat on the planning committee for the Women of Excellence Awards as Committee Chair and Head Judge. In 2016, Sarah joined CLH Foundation’s “A Red Carpet Evening” Gala Committee, and since 2017 has acted as Chair. In 2017, Sarah joined the CLH Foundation Board of Directors. Sarah has operated several fundraisers and initiatives through her business to benefit local nonprofits, as well as volunteering at or coordinating many events and fundraisers. Some of her current and past volunteerism includes: Ontario Event Committee to benefit Kelly Shires Breast Cancer Foundation, Fore Pink Golf Tournament, “A Day in the Life” Marketing Committee at the Midland Cultural Centre, prom dress collection to benefit Ballroom Blitz, CLH Developmental Support Services, and the Guesthouse Shelter. Sarah believes that it is paramount to support local endeavours in the community where her business has flourished.