Citizen Advocacy in the News - 2005
December 5, 2005, Ottawa Citizen: Joe was forgotten for 46 years, until a letter suddenly arrived: Joe Oombash was put in a mental hospital in 1959, although his only handicap was blindness. His family in a remote Cree community now wants to see him, but money stands in the way. Read the press release.
May 13, 2005, Nepean This Week: Citizens wait for friends to become their advocates. When the music begins to flow from Joseph Oombash's accordion he is overcome with a look of pure bliss. A smile threatens to connect each ear and the blind Nepean native begins to chuckle in delight over whatever polka or old-time tune he has decided to play. Read the article.
April 4, 2005, Brantford Expositor: Abuse group highlighted at conference. The three founders of Brantford's Voices Against Elder Abuse were spotlighted at a conference last week in the nation's capital. Heather Haw, Jean Bowen and Lesley Anthony were part of the keynote address at The Elder Abuse Puzzle: Where Do I Fit? Read the story.
March 5, 2005, Ottawa Citizen: Does anyone care for the disabled? It's not that Rita and Bob Burns want their daughter to leave home, but they're 85 and they realize they won't be around to take care of her forever. Read the story.
March 2005, Ottawa Citizen: Program Helps Protect Elderly from Abuse, by Alex Munter. She's 86 years old. For years she was the victim of financial and emotional abuse at the hands of her own family. And now, in the cruelest irony of all, she had ended up exactly where they wanted her: in a nursing home. Read the article.
February 26, 2005, Ottawa Citizen: Free the disabled, but give them help. The province's controversial plan to shut a city institution for the developmentally disabled is winning support from some unusual sources, including disability rights activists and even one of the McGuinty government's fiercest critics. Read the story.
February 26, 2005, Brandford Expositor: Voices Against Elder Abuse becoming national concern. Lesley Anthony, Jean Bowen and Heather Haw will travel to the nation's capital in March to speak at an elder abuse conference hosted by Citizen Advocacy of Ottawa. Read the story.
January 28, 2005, Press Release: Citizen Advocacy of Ottawa-Carleton fully supports the closure of the three remaining Ontario institutions for people with developmental disabilities, including the Rideau Regional Centre in Smiths Falls. Read press release.
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