Crossing the Threshold
Parents of young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Ontario reported significantly higher levels of distress after their child reached this milestone.
What is leaving secondary school? (McKenzie et al., 2016)
Adults with intellectual developmental disabilities require advocacy to access services such as employment, assistance with judicial systems and more with which kind of service worker.
What is an Adult Protection Service Worker (Government of Ontario, 2022)
This specialized transit service assists people with mobility impairments in many Ontario cities
What is ParaBus? (CUTA, 2013)
This is one of the most notorious environmental conditions in Canada that cause many injuries and hospitalizations every year.
What is snow? (Huynh et al., 2021)
According to a 2017 study, physically disabled young adults, especially women, are underrepresented in and less likely to be encouraged by those around them to pursue careers in this field.
What is STEM? (Lindsay et al., 2017)
This service is allocated to adult individuals with intellectual developmental disabilities through the social support program titled Developmental Services Ontario and offers financial service.
What is Passport Funding (Government of Ontario, 2022)
This was the total amount recently invested in North Bay’s public transit system.
What is $4.1 million (Ontario Human Rights Commission, 2002)
Because of greater difficulty crossing intersections within set walk times and difficulty crossing safely between intersections people with slower walking speeds have increased risk of this
What is Pedestrian Injury (Avineri, Shinar, and Susilo 2012)
According to Developmental Services Ontario, youth are recommended to apply for adult support services this far in advance of their 18th birthday to “reduce the service gap between children and adult services”, but ODSP only allows applications for funding this far in advance of the 18th birthday.
What is two years / six months? (Nguyen et al., 2017)
In North Bay, ON, these services are available for adult individuals with intellectual developmental disabilities and their families.
What is Community Living, Paddle Program, Phara, HANDS, NBRHC, etc. (Community Living North Bay, 2025) (Services — PHARA, n.d., 2025) (Community Counselling Centre of Nipissing, 2025) (The PADDLE Program, n.d.) (HANDS The Family Help Network, 2025) (North Bay Regional Health Care Centre, n.d.)
This governing body highlights that many of Ontario’s older public transportation systems were not designed to accommodate persons with disabilities.
What is The Ontario Human Rights Commission? (Ontario Human Rights Commission, 2002).
According to the Minimum Maintenance Standard of Ontario, plowing of the streets at accumulation of 3 inches of snow or more must occur after this amount of time.
What is 48 Hours (Rhindress, 2022)