Happy Community Living Month! Community Living Month is a province-wide annual awareness campaign to recognize the accomplishments of the Community Living movement. This May 2026, join us and the other 125 local associations across Ontario as we show why Connections That Count matter for people who have an intellectual disability and their families!

Shine A Light on Community LIving

May is Community Living Month, and as part of this year’s celebrations, Community Living Ontario is thrilled to announce that our annual Shine a Light on Community Living campaign will be taking place on Friday, May 1st, 2026!

As is tradition, the Toronto Sign at City Hall and the CN Tower will participate by lighting up in Community Living blue and green throughout the night beginning at sunset. The CN Tower, has a standard light show will run for 5 minutes at the top of every hour, followed by another light show on the half hour. The night lighting will be visible by webcam on the CN Tower website: https://www.cntower.ca/live-views

Things you can do to participate:

Put up blue and green porch lights, or have a light shine through your window!
Enjoy a blue and green celebration
Go for an evening glow walk and check out the blue and green lights in your neighbourhood
Gather together and talk about community and belonging
Light up the night and have some fun!

Community Day at the Legislature

On May 6th, 2026, Community Living Toronto will once again collaborate with Community Living Ontario and return to Queen’s Park for our annual Day at the Legislature event. This event presents an opportunity for self-advocates, family members, agencies, and other supporters to increase our visibility and meet with policymakers in the spirit of connection and collaboration.

We look forward to seeing those of you who will be joining us!

(Note: This event is sold out.)

If you can’t attend, you can still take part from anywhere!

Download and print the #DayAtTheLeg26 flag HERE, take a photo or video of yourself waving it, and share your post on May 6, 2026 at 2pm to show your support. Don’t forget to tag us and Community Living Ontario (@CLToronto @CLOntario)

You are welcome to use the sample caption below:

“Today, people, families, and Community Living organizations across Ontario are at Queen’s Park to raise awareness about the barriers people with intellectual disabilities face. In support, we’re waving our flag. @CLToronto @CLOntario #DayAtTheLeg26 #CLMonth2026”

#WeAllBelong

With #WeAllBelong, we continue to reflect what we have heard from communities across the sector: belonging is not a single moment or message, but something lived every day through relationships, participation, and connection. The campaign has evolved as a shared platform that amplifies lived experience, celebrates inclusion already happening in our communities, and brings visibility to the people and places that make belonging real.

Join us on May 14, 2026 to share what belonging looks like in action and to keep inclusion at the heart of how we show up for one another.

Community Living Ontario Policy Forum

Stuck in Neutral on the Journey to Belonging (May 26, 12:30 – 1:30)

Understanding waitlists, spending and the future of developmental services

Who is this webinar for?

Developmental services staff and board members, parents and siblings, self-advocates

What will you learn?

Ontario’s strategy for developmental services, Journey to Belonging: Choice and Inclusion, was launched in May 2021. In the five years since, we have seen very little substantive change.

Unfortunately, Ontario’s developmental services sector faces challenges that Journey to Belonging is not able to address, including decades of underfunding, provincial policy that does not support innovation, and a lack of support for families.

Join Shawn Pegg, CLO Director of Social Policy and Strategic Initiatives, to learn about what we should actually expect from Journey to Belonging, why the strategy has not yet moved the dial on choice or inclusion, and what is actually needed to build system capacity and support more people.

Happening Across Ontario

Community Living Month is a provincial wide celebration. Community Livings across the province have special events planned. Community Living Ontario has created a calendar showcasing these events.