Media Information
Media Fact Sheet - Updated July 2021
An Overview
• Niagara Children’s Centre is a rehabilitation (treatment) centre serving children and youth with physical, developmental and/or communicative delays or disabilities.
• Serves 12 municipalities of the Region of Niagara
• Core services include physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech language pathology and social work.
• Secondary services include: medical clinics (neurodevelopmental paediatrics, physical medicine and complex care), specialty clinics (alternative and augmentative communication; seating and mobility), gait lab; resource consultants; recreation therapy; aquatics
• In January 2019, Niagara Children’s Centre assumed responsibility for School Based Rehabilitation Services
2020-21 Statistics
- 5,857 children served
- 1,486 new referrals
- 36,827 visits
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Wait #s as of March 31, 2021
# Waiting for Assessment: 2,701
# Waiting for Treatment: 400 - Located at 567 Glenridge Avenue; some satellite locations (in-kind space)
- Governance; 11 member Board
- Administration: CEO, Director of Clinical Services, Director Corporate Services and Finance, Director of Development; Clinical Mangers (3)
- One of 21 Children’s Treatment Centres in province.
- Member of Empowered Kids Ontario (EKO), the provincial association for children’s rehabilitation and child development centres; one voice to government.
- Employ approximately 110 full and part-time staff
Our Vision:
“Niagara’s Children & Youth at their Best”
Ends Policy:
“We enable children and youth with physical, developmental and communicative delays or disabilities to achieve their optimal potential within their home, school and community environments.
We do this through delivering a continuum of therapeutic supports and services to children and families and by working with our partners to deliver coordinated, integrated and family-centred care.”
Our Values:
• Children and families come first
• Excellence and innovation are cornerstones of our achievement
• Teamwork and partnerships are vital
• Respect underlies all we do
Our Funding
- Multiple Funders
- Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services.
- Region of Niagara
- HNHB LHIN
- Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (ADP)
- Donations
- Grants
- Annual budget of approximately $9 million
Our History
- Established in 1964 as a voluntary, non-profit charitable organization; through the efforts of May Court Club; several area Rotary Clubs and Port Colborne Lions Club
- Originally named Niagara Peninsula Crippled Children’s Society; 1999 named changed to Niagara Peninsula Children’s Centre; 2012 changed name to Niagara Children’s Centre.
On-site Partner
Niagara Children’s Centre School Authority
- Established in 1964, along with Centre
- Governed by School Trustees; Principal and Administrator
- 60 students
- Funded by Ministry of Education; Section 68 School
- Focus is on transition to the child’s community school
Use of Name/ Acronyms
Operating and Legal Name: Niagara Children’s Centre
Acceptable Abbreviatons: the Children’s Centre, the Centre
Unacceptable Abbreviations: NCC (please note that we do not use this acronym)
For more information
www.niagarachildrenscentre.com
Shaunna Morris, Executive Communications Coordinator, shaunna.morris@niagarachildrenscentre.com
Oksana Fisher, CEO, Oksana.fisher@niagarachildrenscentre.com