Image description: Angie Nethercott and I beside each other holding our awards Last night at the banquet hall of a large hotel here in Toronto, Angie and I represented our respective agencies, Hands The Family Help Network and Vita Community Living Services as we received an award for the Direct Support Worker newsletter that we […]
Image description: A blackboard, surrounded by an orange border with the alphabet inscribed on it and with an apple and a pencil at the bottom right corner. On the blackboard in white letters are the words SCHOOL DAYS. I was on the phone to her mother when Ruby arrived home from school. She called out, […]
Image description: A yellow ball with the words ‘over easy’ the over is written upside down and placed atop the word easy. On Friday, my mind was full of concerns and questions and worries. Joe and I were driving off to the hotel where we would stay the night before the Saturday presentation to parents. […]
Image Description: Test Reading GOOD MORNING Saturday, with flowers and sunshine and bees flying about. It’s Saturday morning and I’m up and nearly ready to head out and do my first presentation of the year. Today it is to a group of parents and I have to say I’m wildly excited about it. I enjoy […]
Note: there is no voice over, the only sound is that of a guitar playing gently) This morning I was on one of the two gay news sites that I visit every day. Both of them were lauding, and rightly so, Hallmark for producing a ‘kiss’ ad featuring a gay couple. I clicked on to […]
Image description: a set of stairs, viewed behind a tree, that has a wheelchair ramp zig zagging through them. When we were in Vancouver, out for a walk, many, many, years ago, we came across the Law Courts building and it was there that I first saw what I thought to be then, the coolest […]
Image Description: The words ‘I am OTHER’ on a black background, the letters in the word ‘other’ are all of different colours. Being Other: I can be angry without being bitter. I can be dissatisfied without being ungrateful. I can be plainspoken without being rude. I can be difficult without being unreasonable. I can be […]
“Attacking people with disabilities is the lowest display of power I can think of.” — Actor Morgan Freeman Last week’s B.C. budget briefly raised the hopes of people with disabilities who had suffered nine years without an increase in benefits — and then crushed them when the awful truth came out. This is an ugly […]
Beginning Sept. 1, 2016, all Persons with Disability (PWD) clients will receive a rate increase of up to $77 a month – providing extra support to 100,000 people in B.C. The increase provides fairness in the system and more choice for people on disability assistance. There are currently two transportation supports available to people on […]
A program that helps youth with developmental disabilities and their families navigate the services and supports they need as they transition to adulthood will soon have a much wider reach in British Columbia. The Services to Adults with Developmental Disabilities (STADD) program will expand its Navigator program to cover the Fraser region during 2016-17. Navigators […]
