• Fall 2008 - CHKC opened its doors in May 2001 to provide Deaf-Blind Canadians with training opportunities and services, and to raise public awareness about the needs of people who have become Deaf-Blind.

  Since the inception of the Canadian Helen Keller Centre, our accomplishments include:

  - Developing a capable team of Instructors and Intervenors

  - Increasing our national base of clients and partners

  - Providing personalized courses in skills of daily living, orientation and mobility, technology, and communications.

  - Raising public awareness through connections to government and organizing events such as 'JuneFest', an annual event that brings together individuals who are Deaf-Blind and the organizations that support them.

  - Providing Seniors Support Services to seniors and their caregivers.

  - Delivering instruction in a new workshop format that provides training in a group format to members of the Deaf-Blind Community and employment opportunities to Deaf-Blind facilitators.

  To find out more, please read:

  1. CHKC Impact at a Glance for 2007-08. (Microsoft Word)

  2. Learning about CHKC firsthand. (Microsoft Word)

  3. CHKC Workshops - A Rare Chance to Contribute. (Microsoft Word)

  Please click here for directions to CHKC.
  
  

• February 2005 - Executive Director Patricia Grant's speech to the Rotary Club (Download Microsoft Word format here)
  
  

• Update, March 2004 - Executive Director's Update on the CHKC's Impact on the Community.
     

• Executive Director Report, Fall 2003 - Introduction of the new Executive Director, Patricia Grant.
   

• Our Programs - Outlines of the programs offered at the Canadian Helen Keller Centre; a national training centre that will benefit all Canadians who are deaf-blind.
   

• Executive Director Report, Fall 2002 - "Once Rotary Cheshire Homes was established it became obvious that a Training Centre was needed to close the gap in meeting the needs of deaf-blind Canadians."
   

• Report from the Chair, Fall 2002 - "This past year has been an eventful one for Rotary Cheshire Homes. As in life, there have been both positives and negatives over the year."
   

• Joyce Thompson - Founding Executive Director of RCH - "Rotary (Don Valley) Cheshire Homes Inc. (RCH) would like to pay tribute on her retirement to our Founding Executive Director, Joyce Thompson — an extraordinary woman who has devoted over 25 years of her life to the field of Deaf-Blindness."
   

• Report from the Chair: Fall, 2001 - "After a number of years of hard work and frustration, we saw the opening of the Canadian Helen Keller Centre. Initially it will be used as a training centre, but hopefully it will be expanded to include Outreach Services for Persons who are Deaf-Blind and Medical Intervener Services." — Warren Wakefield
   

• Canadian Helen Keller Centre Opens its Doors - "As the new Executive Director of the Canadian Helen Keller Centre, I am very pleased to announce that CHKC has opened its doors to the Deaf-Blind community." — Sharon Downie-Clarke
   

• History of the Canadian Helen Keller Centre - An outline of events, beginning in 1985, that have lead to the founding of the Canadian Helen Keller Centre.

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The Canadian Helen Keller Centre, Inc.
210 Empress Avenue
Toronto, ON
M2N 3T9

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