An Ontario Trillium Grant has helped Community Living Essex County prepare for the future.
The organization was awarded $104,000 through the Resilience Communities Fund to support the evaluation of funding and service delivery.
"Knowing we're about to move into a reformed sector, it's about really understanding where we are, what our costs our, what are strengths are, what our brand is and what families count on us for and ensuring that that is sustainable moving forward," said Executive Director Corey Dalgleish.
Dalgleish explained the Ontario government is exploring a funding framework that would put more money into families and individuals hands to make the choices about services.
"As the government shifts with their funding models, providing more direct funding to families giving them control, it's creating a market-driven, customer-driven type of marketplace where we can still offer the same quality services to family that respond to their needs," said Dalgleish.
There are no immediate changes to programming or services through Community Living Essex County.
Dalgleish says changes could come within the next one to five years.
