Status of Women committee  Yes. For instance, speaking about the registered disability savings plan, to access that, first of all, a family needs to have the disability tax credit. Now we're faced with the first barrier, which I mentioned earlier: the form needs to be filled out by a doctor, so there's a f

Status of Women committee  No, I'm not. I'll be writing that down and looking into it.

Status of Women committee  I can speak to that. If I look back before I was working at Pathways and finding out that my child had autism and connecting with Autism Ontario, I remember someone coming and telling me that funding was available and then leaving. The forms are very detailed, and it takes a long

Status of Women committee  They don't have time, and they can't answer the questions so that someone can get a full picture of what their life is like. One of the things Pathways does to support families is to help them with the form for special services. The form can take up to two hours to fill out, so i

Status of Women committee  Being a parent, I can empathize with them and help them to get that form filled out. Then if they're denied, I can tell them I'm there for them and we're going to fight this together.

Status of Women committee  Thank you for that question. What I can provide from my level in the organization is that navigating the health care and social system is hard for anyone. I can tell you that in all seriousness. We are currently rolling out a couple of initiatives within the province of Ontari

Status of Women committee  One of the first recommendations I have is based on information I received from a crisis caseworker at Ontario Works. When, let's say, a mother has a child with a disability and needs to resort to OW for support, the staff there has not been trained to help support this family as

Status of Women committee  When asked to help with this topic, I looked back at my own life and the economic security of my own career. When my husband and I were faced with the life-altering news that our son had autism, the demands were overwhelming from our appointments with developmental pediatrician