October 19, 2023
On Monday, October 16th, 2023, Karis Disability Services received notification from our partner, the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services (MCCSS) of an upcoming compliance inspection. This inspection will take place across communities in Ontario from November 6th, 2023, through November 24th, 2023.
We expect that this inspection will include Supported Independent Living (SIL), Host Family (HFS) and/or Community Participation Support (CPS) locations, and not just Supported Group Living (SGL) locations.
While we do not currently know which service locations MCCSS will be visiting, we know that there will be visits in every district across Ontario, and that the MCCSS Compliance team will work with district leaders on November 6th to identify specific locations and inspection schedules.
In addition, some of our leaders will be meeting with our MCCSS Inspection Lead ahead of November 6th to talk through some logistics questions, and to inform the inspection team of our journey to digital transformation, and our status within that journey.
It is also important to be aware that, similar to 2022, should the MCCSS inspection team find any issues that are considered to be “recurring” issues, these issues may be elevated to a higher level of response (e.g., a “high risk” issue will now be an “immediate risk” issue, and will require immediate response and follow-up). For more information on compliance trends, please visit CHconnect HERE (VPN required).
For any questions, please contact your district Systems Manager(s) or Justin Radstake, Manager of Quality Assurance: jradstake@christian-horizons.org.