Proclamation - Community Living Awareness Month 2025
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS Community Living Algoma has provided supports and services to people with intellectual disabilities and their families in the Municipality of Wawa and surrounding area since 1954 and provides services to 432 adults and 154 children across the District of Algoma; and
WHEREAS Community Living Algoma’s goal is that people with intellectual disabilities have every opportunity to participate fully in our community with dignity, independence and acceptance; and
WHEREAS Community Living Algoma works with township of Wawa volunteers and other stakeholder groups and organizations to promote citizenship for people with intellectual disabilities, so they have the rights and responsibilities, and the opportunities that come with belonging, participating and contributing as a valued member in society; and
WHEREAS Community Living Algoma Awareness Month is a province-wide initiative created to celebrate the values of Community Living, which are inclusion, equality and respect; and
NOWTHEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Council of the Municipality of Wawa does hereby proclaim the month of May 2025 as “Community Living Awareness Month” in Wawa.
Dated this 15th day of April, 2025
Wawa Municipal Council