B.C. launches review of home-sharing program after inquest into woman’s starvation death

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B.C. launches review of home-sharing program after inquest into woman’s starvation death

By Ashley Joannou

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Posted June 2, 2025 7:43 pm

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The British Columbia government is commissioning an independent review of the province’s home-share program, months after an inquest into the starvation death of a woman with Down syndrome in a Port Coquitlam share home.

A statement from the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction says the review will assess safety in home-sharing arrangements, standards that promote quality of life, as well as accountability and oversight measures.

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The government says it will convene an advisory body made up of individuals, families and service providers to give input for developing recommendations.

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Florence Girard was 54 years old when she died in 2018, weighing only about 50 pounds in the home where she lived as part of the home-share program for people with developmental disabilities, managed by the Crown corporation Community Living BC.

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A coroners inquest jury in January made 13 recommendations including calling for better training and pay for people who share their homes and an improved system to co-ordinate residents’ needs.

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Shane Simpson, chair of Community Living BC’s board, says in the statement that the Crown corporation welcomes the review and that the organization has made a number of changes to its processes and oversight since Girard’s death.

The government says the review is expected to be finished in the fall.

 

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