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The Human Rights Complaint
- The Complaint as referred to the Human Rights Board of Inquiry
The Expert Reports filed by the Complainants regarding Systemic Discrimination against persons with disabilities and Institutionalization
- Bach Final – Expert Opinion
- Frazee – Report w scenario and cv (2017-12-07)
Government Reports on the need for community based options and deinstitutionalisation
- Report of the Task Group on Homes for Special Care (DCS 1984-06)
- The Mentally Disabled Population of the Halifax County Region-Needs and Direction, 1989 (Exhibit Vol VI-A, Document 1)
- Review of Children’s Training Centres- R & R to Minister of Community Services, October 1994, (Exhibit Vol II-Document 11)
- Moving Towards Deinstitutionalization: A Discussion Paper, Department of Community Services, February 1995 (Exhibit Vol VI-A, Document 3)
- Report of the Review of Small Option Homes, Department of Community Services (April 1998) (Exhibit Vol VI-A, Document 6)
- Memorandum to Cabinet: Minister of Community Services LeBlanc, November 1990 (Exhibit Vol II, Document 8)
- An Independent Evaluation of the Nova Scotia Community Based Options Community Residential Service System, 2001 (aka ‘the Kendrick Report’) (Commissioned by the Department of Community Services) (Exhibit Vol VI-A, Document 9)
- Department of Community Services Report of Residential Services (SPD) (June 2008) (Exhibit Vol VI-A, Document 23)
- Choice, Equality, and Good Lives in Inclusive Communities, a Roadmap for Transforming SPD, (the Nova Scotia Joint Community-Government Advisory Committee on Transforming the Services to Persons with Disabilities (SPD) Program), June 2013 (Exhibit Vol VI-A, Document 32)
Moratorium (aka freeze on Small Option homes)
- Hansard Committee of the Whole House, May 1, 1997, (Exhibit 80 at the Hearing)
- Department of Community Services Media Release, February 1995 (Exhibit 50)
- Department of Community Services Web Page, April 12, 2004 re the Moratorium (Exhibit Vol III, Document 14)
- Advice to Minister of Community Services, Briefing Note re Small Option Homes, August 2010 (Exhibit Vol III, Document 9)
- Hansard Budget Supply Debates (2017-10-10)
Impacts of the Moratorium: Waiting Times
- Psychiatric Facilities Review Board Annual Reports [Exhibit Vols VI-B-9 (a) through (d)]:
- 1998-1999
- 1999-2000
- 2000-2001
- 2001-2002
- DCS Table of Residential Capacity by Type of Living Situation (1989 through 2017) (Exhibit Vol III, Document 17)
- DCS Ministerial Advice and Briefing Memo re Transformation, November 2013 (Exhibit Vol VII, Document 1)
- DCS Briefing Note SPD Wait List for Adults with Disabilities, October 2007 DCS Briefing Note SPD Wait List for Adults with Disabilities, October 2007 (Exhibit Vol VII, Document 3)
- Advice to Minister re SPD Wait Lists, April 3 2012 (Exhibit Vol VII, Document 8)
- Advice to Minister re SPD Program Wait List and Placement Pressures, March 11, 2013 (Exhibit Vol VII, Document 9)
- DCS Briefing Memo SPD Waitlist, November 2013 (Exhibit Vol VII, Document 18)
- DSP Waitlist by Length of Wait time, September 2015 (Exhibit Vol VII, Document 14)
- DCS Average Wait times August 31, 2015 (Exhibit Vol VII, Document 15)
- DCS Statement of Mandate, 2014-2015 (Exhibit Vol VIII, Document 25)
- DCS 2015-2016 Accountability Report (Exhibit Vol VIII, Document 26
- DCS Statement of Mandate, 2015-2016 (Exhibit Vol VIII, Document 27
- DCS Planning Document in Response to Management Audit, 1994 (Exhibit Vol VIII, Document 33)
- Management Audit Report, January 1994 (Exhibit Vol VIII, Document 71)
- DSP Waitlist, November 17, 2017 (Exhibit 45)
- Wait times for East Coast Forensic Hospital Patients Granted Conditional Discharges Bradley Capital Health Memo to DCS CSA Renewal Committee, October 2003 (Exhibit 55)
- Patryk Simon’s report (2018-05-31)
- DSP Waitlist, August 26, 2019 (Exhibit 85)
- DSP Waitlist Memo, Fall 2014
- ARC-RRC Moratorium on Long Term Placements (effective June 2016) (Exhibit Vol VI-A-68)
- Removed in May 2021: Dep’t of Community Services Policies limiting the length of time that newly institutionalized people can live in institutions
- Letter from DCS Deputy Minister Robert Wood to Treasury Board re SPD Program Budget Pressures and Mitigation Strategies, (January 12, 2012) (Exhibit Vol VIII, Document 58)
The Problems with Institutions
- Emerald Hall External Review, Griffiths and Stavrakaki (2006) (Exhibit Vol VI-B, Document 3)
- Putting People First, 2013 (Exhibit Vol VI-A, Document 33)
- Report on Riverview Home Corporation Prepared for DCS, December 2009 (Exhibit Vol VI-A, Document 42)
- Deloitte Touche Operational Review of Braemore Home Corporation, October 2011 (Exhibit Vol VI-A, Document 26)
Community Call to Action and Province’s Response
- Briefing Note on the Kendrick Report Coalition, March 2002 (Exhibit Vol VI-A, Document 13)
- Letter of March 2016 to Honourable Stephen McNeil from Mr. Wexler on behalf of the DRC (Exhibit VI-A, Document 54)
- Premier McNeil letter of April 18, 2016 to Wexler (Exhibit VI-A, Document 55)
Department of Community Services DSP “Transformation”
- IRIS Review of Reports on Disability Supports and Services in Nova Scotia, March 2013 (Exhibit VI-A, Document 62)
- Choice, Equality, and Good Lives in Inclusive Communities, Roadmap for Transforming SPD, June 2013 (Exhibit Vol VI-A, Document 32)
- DSP Transformation, December 16, 2016 (Exhibit Vol VI-A, Document 66)
- DSP Health Realignment Working Group: Terms of Reference, March 25, 2016 (Exhibit Vol VIII, Document 84)
- Putting People First: What We Heard, July 2013 (Exhibit Vol VI-A, Document 29
- DCS Standing Committee Presentation Re DSP Transformation, September 15, 2015 (Exhibit Vol VI-A, Document 64)
- Hansard of DCS Standing Committee Presentation Re DSP September 15, 2015 (Exhibit Vol VI-A, Document 65)
- CHAG Report Card on the Progress of the DSP Transformation, November 2015 (Exhibit VI-B, Document 6)
Transcripts
- Transcript of the testimony provided at the Human Rights Hearing by the Deputy Minister of Community Services, Lynn Hartwell (August 9th and 10th, 2018)