Community alive BC after starvation death
The BC Crown Corporation that takes care of the care of people with disabilities will be reviewed independently after an inquiry after the death of starvation.
Florence Girard, a female with Down syndrome, weighed around 50 pounds, when she died in 2018 at the Port Kquitulam house of Astrid Dahl, who was a career funded through the Crown Corporation Community Living BC (CLBC).
After a week-long investigation about Girard’s death, a jury made 11 recommendations to CLBC, including better salary for front-line carers and changes to support family members of a weak person who want to take care of their relatives in their home.
The CLBC, the corporation which oversees the care of people with disabilities, was built in 2005. It is in charge of the care of 29,000 British Columbian people with disabilities such as autism, fetal alcohol syndrome and down syndrome.
Now, the province says that the contractor is doing an independent review of the organization’s home-sharing program to be run by Tamar Consultancy.
“Although CLBC has made a lot of changes since 2018, we still hear about concerns,” Poverty Decreased Minister Sheela Malcamson told CBC News.
“And today we have started a review of CLBC’s home-sharing program to ensure that changes (manufactured) people are gaining the highest quality of service since 2018.”
The province’s statement said that it will create an advisory body made of individuals, families and service providers to inform the review and make recommendations to the Ministry. The review is expected to end in late September.
Malkamson told CBC News that the independent review would cost the government $ 75,000, and said that the government needs to know that the home-sharing model was as strong as possible.
“We are really relying on the partition of the house. Four thousand BC families open their homes for adults with developmental disability,” she said. “Demand is increasing.
“This is a model that promises so much for people that, in another time, will be living in institutions.”
In a news release, the CEO of CLBC’s board welcomed the independent review.
Shane Simpson said, “We want to do everything to ensure that this model can be as strong as it is, as it is about keeping people safe, and we believe that the number of people supported through the home-sharing model will increase considerably,” Shane Simpson said.
In its statement, the province says that after Girard’s death in 2018, CLBC made several changes, including visiting home every three months and visiting an annual doctor.
A coroners began on Monday about the death of a woman with down syndrome in funded care funded by the government. We will hear from his sister, and a lawyer about a lawyer he hopes to see that he will come out of inquiry.
The organization faced a call for shakeup
Advocates and unions had Called for a shakeup After questioning about Girard’s death, CLBC, including the demand for its board resignation.
Tamara TaggartThe Chairman of the Advocacy Organization Down syndrome BC, said that the province does not need to appoint a consultancy firm to make changes CLBC, Given the recommendations of inquiry in January.
“I don’t know how much money it is, but whatever it is, it is too much, because we know what the answers are,” he said. CBC news.
“To continue counseling and research and some public counseling and interviews and all the kinds of such items … I think I am in the film Groundhog Day,” Taggart Added.
Taggart said she was willing to see what happens with a review, but was important to the government to hire an external counseling firm for the job.
In a statement sent to CBC News at that time, CLBC said that no existing board was in the board board in 2018 and by law, the board, the board should include the representation of the family members of the developmental disabled people, those of those who get the services funded by the CLBCs and Swadeshi.
After Girard questioning, the CLBC CEO provided “unreserved waiver” to Girard’s family, friends and loved ones and said that the organization had thwarted the BC woman’s family.
One in statement At that time, CLBC stated that it welcomed the recommendations of the inquiry and said that the house was committed to taking concrete action to strengthen the distribution of sharing services.
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