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Our VisionCommunity Living Belleville and Area envisions a community where everyone belongs and all people are valued and respected as participating and contributing members.
Our MissionCommunity Living Belleville and Area exists to provide quality supports to people with intellectual disabilities and to facilitate their full inclusion in community life. Community Living Belleville and Area is also mandated to educate the larger community and to advocate wherever necessary on behalf of people with intellectual disabilities and their families.
Welcome to Community Living Belleville and Area 
This year marks the 60th Anniversary of Community Living Belleville and Area (formerly known as Plainfield Community Homes). Appropriately, we are paying tribute to our rich history of service to this community.
In the early years, the organization was known as the Babies' Convalescent Home and this name told the community what our focus and mandate was at that time: a place for babies with complex needs to convalesce. Over the years, the organization grew and became better known. Expectations and requirements from the Ministry of Community and Social Services changed and the Babies' Convalescent Home changed names several times, finally becoming known as Plainfield Children's Home.
In 2000, it was decided that our name no longer reflected the supports and services that we were providing. The children had grown up and become adults and we learned that people wanted to live in homes of their own in the community, rather than in a large building in Plainfield, Ontario. We changed our corporate name to Plainfield Community Homes to reflect this new direction.
In the last several years, we have placed a concentrated focus on providing individualized supports to people and ensuring people have the opportunity to become active members of the community and participate in person-directed planning. Other changes involve supporting people to choose where and with whom they want to live, including providing support to a couple of people who live semi-independently in their community. We also support people and their families with ‘direct' funded services, whereby they are able to choose the day support that works best for them. We are working in partnership with the Hastings CAS to provide services and supports to families who are ‘at risk' to reduce the likelihood of family breakdown. We are supporting people to engage in active volunteer roles or, for those who are interested, gainful employment.
We have raised the bar on our accountability systems. Our staff