This page tracks media coverage related to CLO’s latest campaign entitled #WaitingToBelong.
| Date | Piece | Organization(s) | Region | Media Outlet |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-04 | Coverage on Community Living Ontario’s news conference on CBC TV | Community Living Ontario | Toronto | CBC TV |
| 2026-03-04 | Lack of funding for people with intellectual disabilities could lead to homelessness | Community Living Ontario | Toronto | CTV Toronto News |
| 2026-03-04 | ‘We’re not okay’: Calls for more support as Ontarians with intellectual disabilities face homelessness and exploitation | Community Living Ontario | Toronto | CTV News – Web edition |
| 2026-03-04 | Pas assez de soutien aux sans-abris avec des difficultés intellectuelles | Sudbury Community Services Centre | Sudbury | CBC Radio Canada (French) |
| 2026-03-04 | Homeless and victimized: Underfunded system leaving developmentally disabled out in the cold | Sudbury Community Services Centre | Sudbury | Sudbury.com |
| 2026-03-03 | Sudbury disability services providers asking for funding, programs to help vulnerable clients at risk of homelessness | Sudbury Community Services Centre | Sudbury | CBC Radio Canada (English) |
| 2026-03-03 | Many developmentally disabled in Sudbury homeless, waiting on supports | Sudbury Community Services Centre | Sudbury | The Sudbury Star |
| 2026-03-03 | Sudbury advocates warn developmentally disabled system in crisis as clients left homeless | Sudbury Community Services Centre | Sudbury | CTV Northern Ontario |
| 2026-02-26 | Inclusion West Niagara building affordable housing units in Grimsby | Inclusion West Niagara | Grimsby | Niagara This Week |
| 2026-02-21 | More adults with developmental disabilities ending up in homeless shelters | Ottawa Agency Group | Ottawa | Ottawa Citizen |
| 2026-01-27 | KW Habilitation calls on province to increase funding after 30 years | KW Habilitation | Kitchener | CBC Radio – The Morning Edition |
| 2026-01-27 | Adults with developmental disabilities feel left behind | KW Habilitation | Kitchener | CTV News |
| 2026-01-22 | Woman with developmental disability on 18-year waitlist for group home | Community Living Oakville | Oakville | City News |
| 2025-12-18 | Families of adults with disabilities struggling to find supportive housing | Ottawa-Carleton Association for Persons with Developmental Disabilities | Ottawa | CTV News |
| 2025-12-11 | Women with intellectual disabilities increasingly targeted by traffickers: advocates | Empower Simcoe | Simcoe County | City TV |
| 2025-12-03 | International Day of Persons with Disabilities celebrated | Community Living Ontario | Toronto | CTV News |
| 2025-11-25 | Ontario fails to help people with developmental disabilities, report finds | Community Living Ontario | Toronto | City News |
| 2025-11-25 | Many of Ontario’s ‘most vulnerable’ are not receiving proper care, ombudsman says | Toronto Star | ||
| 2025-03-12 | These Sudbury-area families still waiting to be heard | Community Living Ontario, Sudbury Developmental Services | Sudbury | The Sudbury Star |
| 2025-03-12 | Five-year wait for appropriate housing for adult disabled child worries parent | Community Living Manitoulin, Community Living Ontario | Manitoulin | The Manitoulin Expositor |
| 2025-03-10 | Support system for Ontarians with developmental disabilities on ‘verge of collapse’: coalition | Ottawa Agency Coalition | Ottawa | CBC News Ottawa |
| 2025-03-05 | Une coalition ontarienne d’organismes au bord du gouffre | Ottawa Agency Coalition | Ottawa-Gatineau | Radio-Canada Ohdio — Sur le vif |
| 2025-03-05 | Déficience intellectuelle : des organismes ontariens au bord du gouffre financier | Ottawa Agency Coalition | Ottawa-Gatineau | Radio-Canada Ici Ottawa-Gatineau |
| 2025-03-01 | Developmental Service Ottawa – Long Waiting Lists | Ottawa Agency Coalition | Ottawa/Eastern Ontario | 580CFRA Ottawa |
| 2025-02-28 | Developmental Disabilities: 52,000 Ontarians with Disabilities Left Waiting for Critical Services | Community Living Access | Norfolk | Norfolk Hub Magazine |
| 2025-02-28 | Community Living London’s 33rd annual Night of Heroes Fashion Show | Community Living London | London | CTV News London |
| 2025-02-25 | Severe Funding Shortfalls Impacting People with Developmental Disabilities | Community Living Ontario, Community Living Essex County | Windsor-Essex | AM 800 CKLW — The Shift with Patty Handysides |
| 2025-02-20 | North Perth endorses letter from Community Living | Community Living North Perth | Listowel | Listowel Banner |
| 2025-02-19 | Election Debate – Developmental Services Issues | Community Living Toronto | Toronto | AM640 — Alex Pierson Show |
| 2025-02-19 | Election Debate – Developmental Services Issues | Community Living Toronto | Toronto | CBC Radio One — Here and Now |
| 2025-02-19 | Employment programs for disabled job-seekers shutter after Ford government changes | Community Living Ontario, Community Living Upper Ottawa Valley, Community Living Grimsby, Community Living Oshawa/Clarington, Community Living Brant | Ontario | The Trillium |
| 2025-02-19 | New club launched in support of special needs population | Community Living Ontario | Stratford | StratfordToday |
| 2025-02-19 | More than 7,400 living in Durham Region with disabilities on waiting list for help | Community Living Oshawa/Clarington | Durham | Durham Radio News |
| 2025-02-14 | More support needed for developmental disabilities in Sudbury-Manitoulin, agencies say | Community Living Manitoulin, Community Living Espanola, Community Living Greater Sudbury, Karis Disability Services, Sudbury Developmental Services | Northern Ontario | CTV News Northern Ontario |
| 2025-02-07 | ‘Crushing demand’ puts nearly 1,500 individuals on long wait lists for developmental services | Community Living Cambridge, Elmira District Community Living, Extend-A-Family Waterloo Region, Sunbeam Community & Developmental Services, KW Habilitation Services, Karis Disability Services, Community Living Ontario | Waterloo | Waterloo Region Record |
| 2025-02-07 | Waterloo region’s developmental service agencies are ‘stretched thin,’ call for provincial funding | Community Living Cambridge, Elmira District Community Living, Extend-A-Family Waterloo Region, Sunbeam Community & Developmental Services, KW Habilitation Services, Karis Disability Services, Community Living Ontario | Kitchener-Waterloo | Yahoo! News |
| 2025-02-07 | Waterloo region’s developmental service agencies are ‘stretched thin,’ call for provincial funding | Community Living Cambridge, Elmira District Community Living, Extend-A-Family Waterloo Region, Sunbeam Community & Developmental Services, KW Habilitation Services, Karis Disability Services, Community Living Ontario | Kitchener-Waterloo | CBC Kitchener-Waterloo |
| 2025-02-06 | Community Living: Provincial funding shortfalls impacting local people | Community Living North Perth | Listowel | Listowel Banner |
| 2025-02-06 | 1,500 people with developmental disabilities sit on waitlist for local programs | Sunbeam Community & Developmental Services | Kitchener | CityNews Kitchener |
| 2025-02-06 | 19 years and counting: senior fears for daughter on supportive housing waitlist | Community Living Haldimand | Haldimand | The Haldimand Press |
| 2025-02-05 | Community Living Appealing for More Support Amidst Election Campaign | Community Living North Perth | Perth County | 100.1 The Ranch |
| 2025-02-05 | Waiting to belong: 52,000 Ontarians with disabilities left waiting for critical services | Community Living Access | Port Dover | Port Dover Maple Leaf |
| 2025-02-05 | Developmental care in crisis: Over 1,500 in region on waitlists | Community Living Cambridge, Elmira District Community Living, Extend-A-Family Waterloo Region, Sunbeam Community & Developmental Services, KW Habilitation Services | Cambridge | CambridgeToday |
| 2025-02-04 | COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: CLA launches Waiting to Belong campaign | Community Living Access | Norfolk | 98.9 myFM News/Oldies 99.7 |
| 2025-01-31 | Community Living urging next provincial government to step up supports for those with developmental disabilities | Community Living North Perth, Community Living Ontario | Windsor | Windsor NewsToday |
| 2025-01-30 | 52000 Ontarians with disabilities left waiting | Community Living Access | Simcoe | Simcoe Advocate |
| 2025-01-28 | Brantford, Ont. family one of thousands on 30-year wait list for supportive housing | Community Living Brant | Kitchener | CTV News Kitchener |
| 2025-01-27 | Desperate situation: Families face decades long wait for services in Brantford | Community Living Brant | Brantford | The Brantford Expositor |
| 2025-01-23 | CLEC joining plea to province to increase funding to developmental service sector | Community Living Essex County | Essex | Essex Free Press |
| 2025-01-23 | Waitlisted for 37 years: Call for funding | Community Living Ontario, Community Living Essex County | Windsor | CTV News Windsor |
| 2025-01-22 | New initiative brings awareness to waiting lists for supports | Community Living Essex County | Windsor-Essex | Southpoint Sun |
| 2025-01-21 | Developmental services agencies start #WaitingtoBelong campaign | Community Living Ontario, OASIS, Community Living Essex County | Windsor-Essex | River Town Times |
| 2025-01-17 | Ontarians with developmental disabilities face a long waitlist for services | Community Living Sarnia Lambton | Sarnia-Lambton | The Journal |
| 2025-01-16 | CBC Radio Canada TV News story | Community Living Ontario, Community Living Toronto | GTA | CBC – Le TeleJournal |
| 2025-01-16 | Thousands of Ontarians waiting for critical disability supports | Community Living Ontario, Community Living Toronto | Canada | Global News |
| 2025-01-16 | Non-profit sounding alarm over disability funding shortfalls | Community Living Ontario, Community Living Toronto | Toronto | CTV News |
| 2025-01-16 | Community Living Sarnia/Lambton seeking more provincial funding | Community Living Sarnia-Lambton | Sarnia | Sarnia This Week |
| 2025-01-10 | Community Living joins call for increased funding | Community Living Sarnia-Lambton | Sarnia | CKNX News Today |
| 2025-01-09 | Some people with developmental disabilities ‘wait their entire lives’ to get help say advocates | Community Living Sarnia-Lambton, Community Living Ontario | Lambton County | The Independent |
| 2025-01-09 | Thousands in Ontario on waitlists for developmental disability supports | Community Living Ontario, Community Living Toronto | Canada | Global News |
| 2024-12-19 | A Christmas plea for Ontario’s most vulnerable | Community Living Access, Community Living Ontario | Haldimand Norfolk | The Haldimand Press |
| 2024-12-12 | Developmental support services waitlist reaches 52,000 provincially, 216 across Haldimand Norfolk | Community Living Ontario, Community Living Haldimand | Haldimand Norfolk | The Haldimand Press |
| 2024-12-03 | Ending the Wait for Disability Support Services | Community Living Ontario, Community Living Toronto | Canada | CTV Your Morning |
