Privatization of Developmental Services in Ontario — What’s Ahead?

Ontario’s new strategy for developmental services, Journey to Belonging: Choice and Inclusion, promises to completely change the way the sector is funded. While many of these developments have the potential to create positive changes, they also open the sector to increasing privatization and new, for-profit service providers.

To understand what might be coming to developmental services, watch our webinar about the history of privatization in Ontario’s long-term care sector, and about the private interests that are already involved in developmental services.

Our panelists:

Dr. Pat Armstrong is a distinguished research professor emeritus, York University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Focusing on the fields of social policy, women, work and health and social services, she has co-authored or co-edited many books, including The Privatization of Care: The Case of Nursing Homes, and Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health Care, as well as many journal articles and public reports. Her edited book, Unpaid Work in Nursing Homes: Flexible Boundaries will be out this summer.

Megan Linton is a PhD student, writer, and researcher. Her research uses critical disability & carceral studies to challenge disability institutionalization and their profit motives. Her writing has been published in Briarpatch Magazine, the Disability Visibility Project, Canadian Dimension, CBC Opinions, the Hamilton Spectator and the Ottawa Citizen. Recently, she produced and wrote the Invisible Institutions podcast. She works as a teaching assistant in Carleton University’s department of sociology and as a research assistant on projects related to disability, political economy and public policy.