Autistic Adults in NB have long been in need of long term, and in some cases permanent, residential care and treatment. Once again some political figures are preparing to dismiss the need for an autism residential care and treatment network with the decades old Bricks and Mortar dismissal. What has been available has actually BEEN bricks and mortar. ... The Restigouche Psychiatric Hospital in Campbellton in particular.
Look at the CBC image of the Restigouche hospital attached, you can see the Bricks and Mortar. Our political leaders from all parties have ignored that reality .... that evidence ... of how their empty rhetoric has simply no foundation in reality, how it has simply worked to hide our autistic adults on our northern border far, far from most families and far from the centrally located and internationally recognized autism expertise developed at the Stan Cassidy Centre autism team and the UNB-CEL.Autism program which was developed by UNB in both official languages and has been recognized internationally.
Attachment 1 Above : CBC Image of the Bricks and Mortar Campbellton Psychiatric Hospital where Autistic Adults Have Been Sent
Attachment 2 Below : - a Map showing how far Campbellton, situated on our Northern Border, is from most communities, including the largest communities in NB; as far away from MOST families as possible
The Map also shows that Fredericton is much more centrally located. ... It is where autism expertise has developed in Canada. An autism center in Fredericton could provide training and oversight to autism homes and for persons providing assisted living in apartments for autistic persons for whom an apartment living would be possible. The center could also provide permanent residential care for the most severely challenged.
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