Well for starters I really lucked out on getting the Reception job at CLBC! I was on leave for a while and not working at the time; I was with a job group called Polaris. One day the Director of Polaris mentioned the BOE Program to me. It was a course at Douglas College in […]
Disability Awareness Week starts May 29th to June 4th. This year will be very exciting for me. In Kamloops, we have an event every year called FunFest to kick off the summer, hosted by Options and Opportunities, a day program that helps adults with physical and developmental disabilities. This year FunFest will be held during Disability Awareness Week on June 3rd. I am very […]
The Kamloops Self-Advocates is a newsletter for people with diverse abilities published by Krystian Shaw. May 2016 edition KSA Newsletter 2016 contains This month’s theme Welcome to May everyone! May is wonderful because it will be summer soon! It’s also a special month in honour of Mother’s Day. We would love […]
“Happy New Year! I hope you all feel inspired by my goals for this year and choose to face some big challenges of your own to conquer during year 2016. So far I have been faced with much larger health struggles than I ever anticipated and my biggest challenge is to stay positive during such […]
May is my busiest month of the year. I take the Hell’s Gate tour, up in the Fraser Valley one day. All the museums and gardens out in UBC another. The aquarium in Stanley Park along with the harbour tour, on a Third. In Squamish I visit both the train and mining museums then take […]
In September of 2013 I joined the EPIC Program with Abbotsford Community Services. I had not worked in 5 years prior to that. I had little success with previous employers and employment programs. I was nervous and anxious to start with when I came to EPIC but I was determined to see it through and to find […]
My name is Bev Johnson. I was born and raised in Nelson BC. I am very active in the community and has held many different jobs as well as taken a course at Selkirk College in the cooking program which has led me to the current position at a hot lunch program provided by a […]
Hi, it’s David Johnston, Self-Advocate Employment Trainer from www.selfadvocate.ca , reporting back on my recent speaking tour in Dawson Creek and Prince George. I have been practicing for a long time and finally had the chance to share my presentation called Passion to Purpose. My tour started in Dawson Creek on March 2nd and there […]
The Kamloops Self-Advocate is a newsletter for people with diverse abilities published by Krystian Shaw. April Edition KSA Newsletter 2016 contains This month’s theme Welcome to April everyone! Readers and contributors: I would welcome your spring stories and what you are looking forward to this spring. Get involved in being in […]
Hi there, My name is Erin Sinclair; I was born with Down Syndrome. Down Syndrome occurs in about 1 in 700 births and it is an extra chromosome caused by an error in cell division. Many parents of Down Syndrome children experience so many different emotions after the baby is born: such as confusion, hurt, […]
