Supportive Housing
The In Community operates the largest Supportive Housing Program in Eastern Ontario in six different locations.
Supportive Housing provides non-medical assistance to adults with physical disabilities in one of several accessible apartments in Ottawa , integrated throughout larger apartment buildings. Supportive Housing is geared to persons with physical disabilities who require a minimum of 2 hours of attendant care services per day.
To be eligible for attendant services, people with physical disabilities must:
- Be insured under the Health Insurance Act of Ontario; (i.e. possess a valid Ontario Health Card)
- Be at least 16 years of age or older;
- Have a permanent physical disability and require physical assistance with activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, transferring and toileting;
- Be able to direct their own services. This means communicating on a daily basis what you want done, when you want it done, and how;
- Be able to have any medical/professional needs met by the existing community health network on a visitation basis.
Clients live independently in an unsupervised environment
Applicants must:
- have the ability to direct their care;
- make decisions;
- live alone in an unsupervised setting
- have the communication skills or physical mobility sufficient to extricate him/herself in an emergency
Housing with support services for adults with physical disabilities
The In Community provides non-medical support to clients. Below is a list of the general types of assistance we provide:
- Personal hygiene:
- Dressing, undressing;
- Washing, bathing, showering, bed bath;
- Mouth care;
- Hair care;
- Preventive skin care, including changing of non-sterile dressings;
- Grooming;
- Make-up;
- Shaving;
- Assistance with medication;
- Menstrual care;
- Toileting and bladder care, including emptying and changing of leg and night bags, stoma care, maintenance of external catheter care, and application and maintenance of external condom;
- Bowel care including, insertion of suppository, digital stimulation and manual disempaction, stoma care.
Physical care:
- Household and personal laundry;
- Light housekeeping;
- Meal preparation, serving, cutting and feeding of food;
- Transferring, positioning, and turning;
- Cleaning and maintenance care of specialized equipment, including wheelchairs, commode chairs;
- Range of motion exercises, and assistance with assistive cough devices and assistive cough therapy;
- Assistance with Registered Service Animals.
Clients access and direct non-medical staff to meet their physical care needs
Staff are available on-site 24 hours a day to meet all physical needs of clients on either a pre-booked or as needed basis.
Based on individual care needs, services are provided in a residential setting or group home
Services are available in 1 of 2 settings:
In our residential setting, clients live in 1 of our 5 designated locations in Ottawa. These locations are private apartment high rises. We have two downtown locations on Clarence Street and Metcalfe Street, a west-end location on Richmond Road, a south east end location on Southvale Crescent and a Hunt Club location on Twyford Street. Each of these locations have approximately 14 clients integrated within the general population of the apartment highrise.
Our group home location is in the west-end of Ottawa. This is a private, 3 story building located in Bells Corners. Each client will have a large bachelor unit with a private accessible bathroom and full use of the common living, dining and kitchen facilities.
Rent subsidies may be available to those that qualify
Rent is geared to income with the assistance of rent subsidies available through the City of Ottawa's Rent Supplement Program, Centretown Citizens Corporation, Daly Co-operative and Cardinus Co-operative.
Applications are accepted on an on-going basis
To apply for The In Community's Supportive Housing Program applicants must complete and submit the following application. Application for attendant care services
Please note: This is an application for all the attendant care services across the Champlain LHIN. If you wish to apply for The In Community, check off the corresponding locations on page 2 of the application and complete the remainder of the application in its entirety. Also note, the application is to be forwarded to the address on page 11 of the application form. VHA Health and Home Support will then forward your application to all the agencies you have checked off on page 2 of the application form.