ALL GENERAL MEETING AND CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 13 Mar 2017 Call for nominations for the Board of Directors of BC People First! The Nominations are due April 23, 2017. Elections will be held at the AGM on Sunday April 30th, 2017. Visit our Events page for more details: click here. Dear Members of BC […]
BC People First is celebrating Community Living month with 2 important presentations about the important work we do advocating for a diverse community where all people are: included and involved; honoured and respected; seen for their abilities, and supported to participate. Please join us on October 24th, in Coquitlam, 7-8:30pm for an Introduction to BC People […]
Dear Amazing Person! Yes! You amazing person! You would make a great Advisor to the BC People first Board. An Advisor is a volunteer role with the BCPF Board that helps us with our work to have the self-advocate voice heard. You help us do our work, not do our work for us. What you […]
By now you have probably heard of the changes the Senate made to the assisted-dying legislation – Bill C-14. The senate voted to remove the requirement that an adult’s natural death be ‘reasonably foreseeable.’ We believe that this will put at risk people with disabilities and chronic conditions who are not dying. We believe vulnerable […]
“We’re In This Together” BC People First Society Conference and AGM May 4 and 5th 2016 at the Coast Westerly Convention Centre Courtenay, BC, Vancouver Island -So what happened at Conference? – BCPF Board of Directors present at Conference (front back left to right) Michelle Goos, Michael Mclellan, Jerry Laidlaw, Dave Sherritt, […]
Inside this Edition of BC People First Newsletter 2016 Winter Edition Report on Retreat 2015 by David Johnson Insurance is Important by Paul Girardi Welcome our New Provincial Coordinator EXCITING NEWS Notice of AGM Official statement on PWD changes to the Bus pass system CLICK HERE for their newsletter Also if want contact BC […]
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On May 31 BC People First had their 2015 Conference and AGM. We had some great presentations, here is a bit about them. My presentation was called Passion to Purpose. This was a presentation on my personal experience with getting and losing employment. I also spoke of how with a bit of support, everyone who […]
Dear Honorable Jason Kenney, Re: Foreign Worker Program BC People First (an organization run by people labeled with a developmental disability for people labeled with a developmental disability) has been following the News on the issues with the Foreign Workers Program. We feel for the foreign workers that may be losing their jobs due to […]
David Johnson is a self advocate who lives in Dawson Creek BC. David has been involved in the community living movement for many years and is currently President of BC People First – one of the province’s largest self advocate organizations. Recently David made a presentation to his local City Council on behalf of people […]
