Here’s what the experts at UL recommend you do now to prevent accidents and keep the family safe To paraphrase the old Byrds song, to everything, there is a season. Shorter days and cooler nights mean it’s time to take some steps around the house, and within your family, to keep yourself and your loved […]
Self advocates attention this report is from BC Ombudsperson finding on complaints issues that found. In MCFD and Ministry of Income Assistance, CLBC and others released on August 1st,2019 you can rad full report below. The BC Ombudsman’s Annual Report offers important insights on fair practice, […]
New Westminster Wednesday, August 21, 2019 10:15 AM People in assisted living residences, including supportive recovery homes, will have access to more care options and added protection as amendments to the Community Care and Assisted Living Act come into force. Effective Dec. 1, 2019, these changes and new regulations will give seniors, people living […]
Attention Self Advocates CLBC and BC Non Profit Housing Association are asking you to participate by answering a few questions online survey for Housing Task Force and their partners to increase access to affordable housing. Where do you want to live? What does your ideal home look like? The Inclusive Housing Task Force, co-chaired […]
I had been requested by a woman with Down Syndrome that I had come into acquaintance with to attend a meeting with her father and her sister. Her mother had passed away a few years earlier and the passage through grief had brought them all closer together. There was resistance to my being there, but […]
Several of the hotels that we stayed in over the last few days on the road to and from St. Louis had renovated or ‘updated’. They all looked great, but looks can be very deceiving. In the first one I got off the elevator to turn towards the room and sank into porridge soft carpet. […]
We were having lunch at a small cafe in a mall near the hotel in which we were staying. The food court was a few feet down and around the corner from us. We we chatting over our meal when Joe’s face froze. He said quietly to someone other than me, “Put the fucking phone […]
We’d had dinner in a packed restaurant, with waitstaff that had no idea how to sit a disabled customer, and were on our way out. I came through the / doors and saw that a huge truck had used the cut curb to pull back up into a parking space to unload and store equipment […]
We got to the restaurant a little later than we had planned. But what’s a vacation for but to make plans and then freely set about to mess them all up? We were greeted by a woman with a disability, she used a cane for stability and for assisting with movement. She was warm and […]
This morning I had to have an x-ray, a great way to start a vacation, and, yes, everything is fine. We arrived to a long line up and a sinking feeling that we’d be there for hours. Turned out that we got through the process faster than we did at the drive-thru at Harvey’s We […]
