Project Lifesaver receives Trillium grant

Caledon council members and Project Lifesaver representatives were joined by Gail Grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation and Sylvia Jones, MPP John Tory's assistant, in celebrating the $92,600 grant the Trillium Foundation provided to Project Lifesaver over a three-year period.

The Project Lifesaver Caledon pilot project received a boost of $92,600 from an Ontario Trillium Foundation grant recently which will distributed over a three-year term.

"With the implementation of Project Lifesaver in our community, Caledon families now have access to a significant safety net to protect their loved ones," Mayor Marolyn Morrison told Ontario Trillium Foundation representative Gail Grant.

Project Lifesaver is a non-profit public safety organization that uses radio technology to locate vulnerable children and adults who have a history of wandering. If these at-risk individuals become lost, a search and rescue team is dispatched to track the signal over many kilometres, returning the person who has wandered to familiar surroundings as soon as possible. Based in the United States, Project Lifesaver has conducted more than 1,000 successful searches, and has been endorsed by the National Sheriff's Association and the Alzheimer's Foundation of America.

Launched in conjunction with Peel region, Brampton Caledon Community Living and the Caledon detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police, the scope of the pilot project is limited to a small number of children with an identified cognitive disability or impairment. The Ontario Trillium Foundation, an agency of the Ontario government, receives $100 million annually from Ontario's charity casino initiative. The foundation allocates grants to eligible charitable and not-for-profit organizations in the arts and culture, environment, human and social services and sports and recreation sectors.