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Mental Health is Health, and it matters. It mattered before the COVID-19 pandemic, and it matters even more now. This year during Mental Illness Awareness Week and beyond, we want to bring awareness to mental health and developmental disabilities.
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And It's Fall By Yona Lunsky For months now, I have been struggling to write this blog post. Ostensibly, it is about our collective experience of the pandemic and moving forward together. But it is also a plea to all of us in the developmental disability community to focus on our commonalities and to be collaborative as we can be at a time when life is complex, emotions are...
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Health Care Planning: Things to Know about Health Care Decisions On July 7 th , Dr. Bill Sullivan and Audrey Cole were our guest presenters at the Azrieli Centre’s Family Lunch and Learn webinar series. The topic of Health Care Planning: Things to Know about Health Care Decisions was of great interest to me, because until recently, I hadn’t given this important topic much thought and I...
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Masks are here to stay: What’s next? By Yona Lunsky In May, I wrote a blog about masks and the important role they play in keeping us safe during the COVID-19 pandemic . Since then, I have seen   many great tips to help people with developmental disabilities adapt to wearing face coverings, including these examples  in Scotland  and locally at Holland Bloorview . As we...
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Moving Forward, Opening Up: Five Priorities for Health Yona Lunsky It has been three months since everything closed down due to COVID-19 and we have all felt its impact. Now, as the number of COVID cases are decreasing, we are moving forward and thinking about opening up.  But, we approach this with trepidation because there is a lot we still do not know. As we think ahead, I...
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