Special Housing Needs (Norman Haw, Canadian Paraplegic Association)

Author

Norman Haw (Canadian Paraplegic Association)

Published

November 2, 1989

NoteSource inspected

This archive inspected the public OCR of sections VII–IX of the conference proceedings, and the front matter in the companion OCR of sections I–II, on 20 September 2026. The evaluation report Haw cites was not inspected.

Identification

Data table
Element As seen
Host publication Managing Post Polio Problems: Proceedings of the First Pacific Northwest Regional Polio Conference, 2–5 November 1989, Richmond, B.C.
Sponsor (front matter) Post Polio Awareness and Support Society of British Columbia
Contribution “VII. Special Housing Needs,” speaker identified as Norman Haw, Canadian Paraplegic Association; Haw states he is Director of Rehabilitation Services for CPA
Public copy inspected Polio Place OCR PDF (filename spells “Manging”)
Companion front-matter OCR Polio Place, sections I–II

A publisher imprint and printed pagination were not confirmed from a title page in this pass.

Annotation

Haw gives a developmental account of accessible housing and support services in British Columbia from the early 1970s through the late 1980s (Paraplegic Lodge 1972; first group home 1974; Long Term Care and hour-pooling 1978; Kelly Court 1979). For this archive, the material Creekview passages are:

  1. Creekview 202 opened in September 1985 as “an integrated self managed independent living project developed by CPA and at least 6 former residents of Pearson Hospital, five of whom were ventilator-dependent,” occupying the equivalent of six one-bedroom apartments (4,700 square feet) in a 100-unit CMHC-funded co-operative.
  2. The Ministry of Health and the Workers Compensation Board “have provided funding to the tenants through CPA for purchase of support services such as a paramedic, home-maker, nursing, physiotherapy and occupational therapy.” Attendants were trained by Pearson staff. All six men “are equal members of the co-op”; Haw says one is president of the building and involved in hiring and firing staff.
  3. “In 1987 an independent evaluation of Creekview 202 was published which confirmed the success of the project in three respects.” Haw then paraphrases: tenant care about 60% of Pearson cost; about $100 a day less per diem and about $215,000 a year combined; overall health “at least as good,” with physical health maintained and mental health and social interactions improved; Canadian Council of Hospital Accreditation standards “met and exceeded in virtually all cases.” He adds that government “was not interested in measuring quality of life.” Those paraphrases are Haw’s, not a substitute for the evaluation.
  4. A next project then in development would, Haw says, take the Creekview 202 concept further for seven ventilator-dependent Pearson residents. The inspected OCR uses both “Nobel House Cooperative” and “Noble Housing Co-op.” This archive does not equate that project with SCI BC history’s later “Stanley Noble Stronge Housing Cooperative” without a title-page match.

source_type is near-primary: a 1989 public talk by a CPA official about events a few years earlier, not the 1987 evaluation itself.

Open questions

  • Printed publisher, place, and year of the bound proceedings.
  • Whether Haw’s “independent evaluation” is the Ryan / Ryan & Wiggins report named in early project notes.
  • Whether “Nobel House Cooperative” is the 1989 Stanley Noble Stronge project on the SCI BC history page.

Associated claims