Document Repository
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Guiding Documents
- Constitution 2019
- Vision, Mission, Values
- 5 Priority Pathway
- Executive Summary Findings from 2014 Spring Stakeholder Engagement Process
- Final Report Findings from 2014 Spring Stakeholder Engagement Process
- Leadership, Partnership and the Path Forward Feb 2018 Our working relationship with the Department of Families
- Abilities Manitoba Members Map 2020-21
Quality Framework
Training
- Training and QA Proposal Presentation March 2017
- Proposal to CLDS Training and QF February 2017
- Proposed Training Plan: Professionalization Proposed Plan January 2017
- Training Research: Summary Report – Full Research Report – Powerpoint on Research Report September 2016
- Member Training Survey Results September 2016
- CLdS Proposal on Training and Quality Framework May 2015
- Hay Group: Working with Competencies Manual 2004
- Hay Group: Competency Dictionary 2004
- Cross cultural beliefs about I.D. Strategies to inform DSP training
- Addressing cross cultural attitudes & beliefs towards people with I.D Scoping review
- Training culturally diverse DSPs. Scoping review
Wages
- April 2019 USA Study on Workforce Issues related to Aging and People with Disabilities
- Report to the US President Americas Direct Support Workforce Crisis 2017
- WEF Turnover Handout 2013-16
- Salary Survey 2011-12
- Member Salary Survey Summary:Manitoba Coalition of Service Providers (Abilities) 2006
- US Wage Crisis: The Cost of Compassion (National edition)
- US Wage Crisis: The Direct Support Pofessional Crisis
- US Wage Crisis: Caregiver Crisis: The New Gateways Story
- US Wage Crisis: DCI Changing The Script
Professionalization Working Group Resources
Optimization
Accessibility for Manitobans Act (AMA)
Vulnerable Person’s Act & Resources
- VPA Task Force – Abilities Manitoba Submission Dec 2020
- 19 08 30 VPA Think Tank Report – FINAL
- 1996 VPA Legislation
- Austria 2019: Supported Decision Making
Legislation: http://disabilityandabuse.org/Austria.pdf - 2007 VPA Review
- 2019 Public Interest Law Centre: Report on the VPA.
- 2014 CACL: Statutory framework for the right to legal capacity and supported decision making in Canada.
Aging and Dementia Resources
- Screening and Diagnosis – November 2017
- Health Advocacy and Dementia – November 2017
- NTG: Community Care Guidelines (Final) – November 2017
- Screening and Diagnosis – November 2017
- Framework Document (final 2) November 2017
- Framework Document (final 2) November 2017
- Framework Document Aging and Dementia January 2017
- Aging and Dementia Issues and Actions January 2017
- NTG Early Detection Screen for Dementia – NTG-EDSD Manual 2013
Separation By Laws
CLdS
- Department of Families – Regional Social Services and Winnipeg Boundaries October 19, 2020
- Agency Letter RE-COVID-19 and BCP (march 13 2020).CSM
- Personal Financial Plan TEMPLATE REVISED Mar 2019[33171]
- A Guide to C ompleting My Support Plan July 2019[31147]
- CLDS My Support Plan TEMPLATE July 2019[31148]
- CLDS Support Plan Policy July 2019[31146]
- CLDS Future Demands Presentation November 2018
- Contributions to Care Circular
- Person-Centered Planning Tool December 2016
Building on Abilities (BOA)
- BOA Update – Abilities Manitoba – March 12 2019
- Member Feedback Impacts of BOA April 2018
- Day Services Presentation Pulford February 2018
- Day Services Funding Guidelines January 2018 (1)
- SIS Info Session for Families January 2018
- BOA Engagement process April 2017
- SIL Service Definition Feedback to CLdS January 2017
- SCLdS Building on Abilities update January 2016
- Executive Committee: Building on Abilities Planning December 2015
- SCLdS Building on Abilities update January 2016
- Abilities Questions on Building on Abilities and Funding Allocation
Information Sessions and Feedback
SIS
Supported Independent Living (SIL)
Day Services
Home Share
- Home Share Funding Model 2018 Oct-25-18
- Home Share 24 Hour Agency Supported Oct-25-18
- Home Share Regular Agency Supported Oct-25-18
Residential
Enhanced Program Support
- Drop-In Funding Model Service Guidelines FINAL 2018
- Drop-In Program Service Definition FINAL 2018
- Enhanced Program Support Review and Approval Checklist FINAL 2018
- Enhanced Program Support Service Definition FINAL 2018
Clinical Services
Supports to Families
Residential
Service Purchase Agreement (SPA)
Wage Enhancement Fund (WEF)
Financial Reporting Requirements
Fire Codes and Regulations
CLdS Organizational Charts
- CSD_DPSS Org Chart September 2020
- CLds Management Organizational Chart September 2019
- CLds_Organizational Chart September 2019
- Community Service Delivery: Assistant Deputy Minister Org Chart January 2019
- Community Service Delivery: Adult Disability Services January 2019
- Community Service Delivery March 2018
- Adult Disability Services Branch October 2016
- Strategic Planning and Program Support October 2016
- Divisional Management October 2016
- Rural and Northern Services October 2016
- Winnipeg Services October 2016
- Manitoba Family Services Community Service Delivery Organizational Chart August 2015
Government Relations
- Budget 2017 Briefing: Budget 2017 Responsible Recovery
- Red Tape survey Infographic December 2016
- Red Tape full survey data December 2016
- Coordination of Ministries Red Tape Submission to Deputy Minister Jay Rodgers, December 2016
- Red Tape reduction Abilities Submission to Red Tape Task Force
- Scott McFayden Presentation to members January 2017
- Minister Scott Fielding Backgrounder January 2017
- Government Relations Advisory Committee 1 year plan 2016-17
- Ministry of families briefing book May 2016
Miscellaneous Resources
- CC-Natural-Supports-Framework_2019_FINAL_Pages
- Report on System Review in Alberta July 2019
- Optimization Presentation to Members September, 2018
- iSTEDY ASPs Management Software 2018
- Winnipeg Without Poverty: Calling on the City to Lead Make Poverty History:May 2018
- Member Feedback on Meetings January 2017
- Membership Fee Survey 2017
- Abilities MB: Asper study on economic benefits October 2017
- Full Citizenship: A Manitoba Provincial Strategy on Disability
- Al Condeluci Social Capital and Community Change
- Survivng Cogworld ? Supporting people with Developmental Disabilities In a Mechanistic System February, 2015
- CLdS Day Services Review Interim Report December 2015
- Disability in Manitoba: Canadian Survey on Disability 2012
- Key Components of System Change January 2006
- Communication Tools: A Guide
- Commonly Used Acronyms in the Sector