Category: Bellwoods Blog

Bellwoods is excited to announce that it has been selected as the winner of the Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association (ONPHA) Award for Excellence at a special ceremony that took place at the 2018 ONPHA Conference and Trade Show held at the Sheraton Centre Toronto on October 26, 2018. The award recognizes a non-profit housing provider that responds to tenant or community needs with imagination, dedication and insight.

You can visit ONPHA’s website for more information regarding the Award for Excellence (https://onpha.on.ca/Content/Membership/Awards/Award_for_Excellence.aspx) or see pdf for ONPHA’s news release.

We also want to share with you a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK7jpIrolLk) that was created to celebrate and showcase our organization as the 2018 Award for Excellence winner.

We are very excited to have won this award as this recognition enables Bellwoods to further showcase it’s ground-breaking work in developing Independent Living solutions that respond to changing needs and demands and to profile them to new audiences.

From left to right:
Marlene Coffey – Executive Director, ONPHA; Susan Andrew – Vice President, Client Services, Bellwoods; Harriet Jamieson – Director, Transitional Programs, Bellwoods; Heather Brien – Bellwoods Board Chair; Lori Holloway – CEO, Bellwoods; Viola Bardhoshi – from MCI on behalf of the award sponsor Prentice Yates & Clark; Adam Vaughan, MP (Spadina Fort-York) and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Families, Children and Social Development; Ami Patel – President, ONPHA; and Steve Clark – Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing

Thank you to all our staff, clients, service partners and especially our housing providers. This would not have been possible without your support and dedication.

For inquiries please contact:
Anna Yip, Communications Support Coordinator
ayip@bcclsp.org

We are pleased to announce that Bellwoods’ Head Office has been relocated to a new location as of October 29, 2018 to accommodate organizational growth. The new address is:
3 Concorde Gate, Suite 200, Toronto, ON.  M3C 3N7.

We will continue with our existing contacts:
T: (416) 696-9663
F: (416) 696-9481
E: admin@bellwoodscentres.org
W: www.bellwoodscentres.org

For directions, please visit this link.

If you have any questions about the new location or any of our program and services, please contact us and we will be happy to help.

On February 13, 2018, I Heart Neighbourhood will bring together friends, neighbours and supporters at the Daniels Spectrum to celebrate and support the importance of building strong, vibrant, compassionate neighbourhoods in our great city.

This unique collaborative fundraising event brings together The Neighbourhood Group, Springtide Resources, Regent Park Focus, Jessies – The June Callwood Centre for Young Women, and Bellwoods Centres for Community Living to raise much-needed funds to support important programs and services. Collectively, our agencies serve 50,000 Torontonians each year.

Attendees will enjoy an elegant evening mixing delicious fare and beverages with both a silent and live auction, live entertainment, and the opportunity to learn about the work of five local charities.

To order your tickets in support of Bellwoods Centres please visit our CanadaHelps page.

You can also check out the event via Facebook: Page: https://www.facebook.com/iheartneighbourhood/ or Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/128499541176438/

Show some Heart and join us for the I Heart Neighbourhood Charity Auction, Tuesday, February 13, 2018 at the Daniels Spectrum. Guests will enjoy an elegant evening mixing delicious fare and beverages with both a silent and live auction, live entertainment and the opportunity to learn about the work of The Neighbourhood Group, Springtide Resources, Regent Park Focus, Jessies – The June Callwood Centre for Young Woman, and Bellwoods Centres for Community Living.

The Minister Responsible for Accessibility is seeking dedicated and knowledgeable individuals and organizations to sit on upcoming Standards Development Committees (SDC) to develop a new accessibility standard for Health Care, as well as to review the Information & Communications and Employment Standards.  All three Committees will launch in fall 2016.

The Minister is always looking for candidates to sit on her Accessibility Standards Advisory Council (ASAC) to provide advice on matters relating to accessibility and the implementation of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005.

ASAC and SDCs typically meet for one to two days every six to eight weeks in Toronto. Additional time is required to review materials between meetings. Reviews are anticipated to begin in fall 2016 and run through summer 2017.

More information on ASAC and SDCs can be found on our website.

If you, or someone you know, may be interested in becoming a member of ASAC, please fill out an application on the Public Appointments Secretariat website.

If you, or someone you know, may be interested in becoming a member of an SDC, please send a resume to AODA.INPUT@ontario.ca and indicate which SDC you are interested in (Health Care, Information & Communications or Employment), as well as outline any relevant background, including past board experience and any lived experience of disability.

If you or someone you know is interested in sitting on an SDC, please submit your application by November 13th, 2016.