Advancing Access, Equity and Improved Health Outcomes for Persons Living with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Sunbeam’s Chief Executive Officer, Brian Swainson in his capacity as the Co-Chair of the Health Strategy & Engagement Working Group of the Provincial Network on Developmental Services, co-authored the September 2023 position paper: 

A Call To Action for Fundamental Cross-Sectoral Change: 

Advancing Access, Equity and Improved Health Outcomes for Persons Living with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

The 23 Calls to Action within this position paper, if advanced by government, will remove healthcare barriers and inequities, and improve health outcomes for people living with developmental disabilities in Ontario.

Three key themes which have emerged from this paper are the need for:

1. Structural integration of pathways between the Health and Developmental Services (DS) sectors.
2. Investment into research, data and systems spanning the Health and DS sectors, and
3. Retention, sustainability and growth of DS linkages to the Health sector, and embedded specialized clinical services, knowledge, expertise and tools within the DS sector.

To read the position paper in full, you can see the document below or you can click here to open the PDF in a new tab.