History
1999
Contact Brant for Children’s and Development Services was incorporated September 1999. Doors opened in 2000.
2007
Initiated the tri-county publication of Your Guide, which is published two times a year, listing workshops, courses, groups and events available free to children, youth and families in Brant, Haldimand and Norfolk. This is also posted on our website.
2011
Developmental Services Ontario (DSO) satellite office co-located with Contact Brant.
2012
Assumed management of the Community Information Brant, Haldimand & Norfolk website. This website provides the public with easy access to information on community services. Our records are used by 211 Ontario to provide their provincial 24/7 information phone services, available in over 150 languages.
2016
Contact Brant was named as the Coordinating Agency for Brant. Implemented Coordinated Service Planning, working with other community stakeholders, to provide families of a child or youth with complex special needs a key contact person to coordinate their supports across education, health and community services.
2018
Implemented FASD Service Coordination supports to families of children and youth with FASD or suspected of having FASD. Our staff support the Brant FASD Caregiver Support Group that provides peer to peer support for parents and caregivers.
2022
Contact Brant was named lead Coordinating Agency for West Region, which includes Hamilton, Brantford, Brant County, Haldimand Norfolk and Niagara to implement the Urgent Response Service (URS) through the Ontario Autism Program (OAP). Contact Brant works with key stakeholders in the community along with children, youth, and families to respond with time-limited services and supports intended to respond rapidly to a specific need and prevent further escalation of risk of harm to self, others, and/or property.