This newsletter is written and produced by the People First of Canada and Canadian Association for Community Living joint task force on De-Institutionalisation. “An institution is any place in which people who have been labelled as having an intellectual disability are isolated, segregated and/or congregated. An institution is any place in which people do not have, or are not allowed to exercise, control over their lives and their day to day decisions. An institution is not defined merely by its size.”