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A Call to Ensure Your Voice is Heard: Support the Return to Community and the Closure of Alberta’s last large institution for people with developmental disabilities
March 23, 2013

  As you all know on March 11 the Alberta government announced the inevitable and necessary closure of Michener Centre and its plan to transition the 125 individuals living there to a life in community.  This is an action that AACL, as a family organization, along with almost every other family and disability rights related […]

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Almost 100 Years of Institutionalization in Alberta of Individuals with Developmental Disabilities Draws to a Close
March 11, 2013

  Today is a momentous day of celebration for all Albertans as we join almost every province in Canada in ending the large-scale institutionalization of Albertans with developmental disabilities with the closure of Michener Centre’s institutional facilities and the return to a life in community of the adults with developmental disabilities who lived there. Institutionalization […]

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Alberta transitions adults with developmental disabilities into the community

March 11, 2013 The Alberta government is listening to the advice of experts and transitioning 125 adults with developmental disabilities into community homes from the North and South buildings at Michener Centre, an institutional care facility for people with developmental disabilities located in Red Deer. The change will improve quality of life and ensure that […]

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