Since COVID-19, Community Living Sarnia-Lambton has hired a lot of new staff.

“Just like everybody else, there was significant turnover during the pandemic,” said executive director Corry Thomas.

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“And it took a while to recover from it, to stabilize.”

The agency that supports people with development and intellectual disabilities and their families has about 300 staff and had a turnover rate approaching 30 per cent in recent years, he said.

That’s since dropped under 10 per cent, he said.

“We don’t expect it to spike like that again,” he said, recalling the extraordinary circumstances of limiting care to people who needed it 24/7 amid public health requirements, cancelling day and respite care programs and redeploying staff.

Members of the relatively new workforce

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