Posted on March 21, 2017 by DABC March 2017 Community Update Disability Assistance Rate Increase and New Child Benefit Exemptions The monthly disability assistance rate for people receiving Persons with Disabilities (PWD) benefits from the Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation (MSDSI) will increase by $50 beginning with the cheque that will be issued […]
This morning I went to Google, typed in “Down Syndrome News” and waited the nanosecond it took for the search engine to present me with the results. My goal was to see, on World Down Syndrome Day, what I would find. I do things like this with expectations, here I expected to find an article […]
When the girls arrived on the weekend we asked them if they’d like to be part of the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade that would be happening on Sunday. There wasn’t even a breath of hesitation. “YES!!” And then the talk was immediately of costumes and we added into the plans a trip to the dollar […]
Beauty and the Beast was on the top of the list for what we had planned with Ruby and Sadie this weekend. Knowing that a lot of showings had sold out, we arrived at the theatre for its first showing and about 20 minutes early. We bought our tickets and were ushered in. What with […]
We all agreed to meet a Tim’s. It’s located right beside a grocery store, and we needed to pick stuff up for supper, as well as being a convenient place for us all to meet for a tea and gather up the girls and their stuff for the weekend. Joe and I arrived early. I […]
Vampire or werewolf, which will I be? I can never tell, but, it will be one of them. I wonder if others of you who are wheelchair users have similar experiences. When I wait for an elevator, I wait off to the side, giving passengers room to exit. However, even though you’d expect that those […]
We are not “product people.” When we get ready in the morning it takes minutes, the expression “shit, shave and shampoo” fits us well. So when I was in Boots in Heathrow to buy both shaving gel and balm, because we’d run out on the road, I was taken by the buy 2 and get […]
Inclusion BC is a proud co-delivery partner for British Columbia for Ready, Willing and Able. Here’s an update on this innovative initiative. Zero Project highlights Canada’s ‘innovative’ RWA at 2017 Vienna conference Canada’s Ready, Willing and Able initiative was highlighted at this year’s Zero Project conference in Vienna, which focused on inclusive employment, vocational education […]
Dear Friends and Allies of the Self Advocacy Community, This is a letter to update you on the following CLBC news: CLBC strategic plan CLBC budget for 2017/18 Include Me! Quality of life survey Designing a new community inclusion service Widening our World (WOW) awards CLBC – BCGEU Scholarships open for applications 1. CLBC announces its […]
By Linda Shaw The biggest and most surprising journey of my life has been being Krystian’s mom. Krystian was born premature. At first, I was told he was delayed, but would catch up. Later I was told he was developmentally delayed and would never catch up, probably never being able to read or […]
