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Register today for Everybody Belongs 2024!
Early bird pricing ends on April 15th, 2024.
Register today to select your workshops and get the best price.
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Scholarship applications are open for Everybody Belongs 2024! Would you like to attend the conference but are experiencing financial barriers? We offer a limited number of scholarships every year which cover most of the costs of attendance, including travel and accommodations in some cases. Read more and apply here
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- Inclusion BC's Employment team will be hosting two job fairs this month. The first will be in Burnaby on March 7 and the second will be in Kelowna on March 14. Register for your preferred location today!
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What’s in Store: Everybody Belongs 2024
Join us for three days of togetherness, celebration, and learning for disability inclusion.
There are workshops for everyone at Everybody Belongs. Registration is open and sessions are filling up fast.
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Our interpretation of the Throne Speech on February 20th and Budget 2024: Taking Action For You.
Read about our recommendations, followed by the related dollar amounts allotted in this year’s budget. There are a few opportunities to explore, but still significant work to do in important areas for people with disabilities.
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BC People First Conference: A History | |
BC People First is run by a Board of self-advocates who want to advocate for their rights to be independent. Attendees at this year’s free conference can expect to learn about advocacy, goal setting, presentation skills, using social media, human rights, and more.
BC People First Conference
March 13 to 15, 2024
Online and in downtown Vancouver.
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Our Position Statements & Letter to the Minister of Health | We wrote a letter to Hon. Adrian Dix, Minister of Health, requesting a meeting to discuss our new position statement on Access to Health and Coordination of Care for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. | |
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Our Family Leadership Series | Families mobilized and started the community living movement and continue to keep the inclusion movement going today. Inclusion BC’s Family Leadership Series works to strengthen families’ networks and build their capacity for individual and group advocacy. | | |
Outreach in Victoria for Inclusive Employment | |
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Inclusion BC’s Employer Outreach Project, and Community Living Victoria organized a gathering aimed at promoting inclusive employment in British Columbia. Employers came together to participate in a forum characterized by shared insights, learning from experience, and networking opportunities.
We also created a film in Victoria promoting inclusive employment practices and outlining the benefits.
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Chilliwack Society for Community Living: 70 Years of Leadership and Community Connection | Our Journey to Inclusion: 70 Years of Innovation is on at Chilliwack Museum and Archives from January 25 to June 8, 2024. Check their website for hours and rates. | | |
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By making a donation or signing up as a Circle of Friends monthly donor, you are helping us to advocate for the rights and opportunities of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
We couldn't do it without you! Help us continue to advocate for the rights and opportunities of people and their families.
"In my journey to get adequate classroom support for my son, Inclusion BC paired me with a skilled and experienced advocate who listened to my concerns, gave me valuable advice on the escalation process, and sat in with me on important meetings. She gave me the confidence to advocate for my child's rights and also provided much-needed emotional and moral support during a high-stakes and stressful situation." - Parent
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First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
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Opportunities to Take Action | |
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Are you a parent with a disability? Take part in this study with UBC and share your experiences
What to expect:
If you decide to participate, you will join a focus group with other parents for around 60-90 minutes to talk about your experiences and what supports and services were available to you as a parent. Groups will be in-person, or online
Read more and participate
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Write to your Member of Parliament today to fund the Canada Disability Benefit (CDB)
Every person deserves a life of dignity. People with disabilities continue to struggle.
An adequately funded CDB is the key to reducing disability poverty. Let's demand funding NOW!
Click here for tools to send your letter
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Now more than ever, $10aDay needs your input! Share your experience and expertise and help inform the advocacy for a $10aDay system of child care that:
- meets the diverse needs of BC children and families
- values and fairly compensates educators; and
- supports operators to provide equitable access to high quality, inclusive child care programs.
We hope you’ll take one of the surveys below to share your important perspectives, and to enter a draw to win one of five $100 cash e-transfers.
I'm a Parent/Guardian
I'm an Educator
I'm an Owner, Operator or Manager
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Write to your Member of Parliament to repeal S.43 of the Criminal Code (Defense of physical punishment)
Bill C-273 passed second reading in the House of Commons on February 14th. Conservative MPs in BC voted against this bill. We encourage everyone to send them letters urging them to reconsider their opposition to this needed legislative change to protect children.
Send a letter in support of this bill from this website here
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The Centre for Civic Religious Literacy (CCRL) is conducting a research project on (1) how people with intellectual disabilities learn about, engage in, and express spirituality and (2) how community living service providers perceive their role in spiritual literacy and engagement.
This first phase of research is being conducted in 2024 with posAbilities, Kinsight and Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion and will consist of a literature review, field documentation review, and interviews with employees, care providers/families and supported individuals. It also includes a scan of community living service providers in BC who offer any sort of religious or spiritual programming or exploration. If your organization provides something along those lines, or has in the past, we’d very much love to hear from you! Please reach out to Alice Chan, Executive Director CCRL, at alice@ccrl-clrc.ca.
If you are interested in hearing more this project, please feel free to contact Gord Tulloch at gtulloch@posabilities.ca.
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Inclusion BC is a non-profit federation working with partners to build community and enhance the lives of children, youth, and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and their families. They do this by supporting people’s abilities, promoting positive action, and advocating for rights, responsibilities, and social justice. Inclusion BC is supported by a membership of individuals, families, and 65 member organizations that are working together to build inclusive communities across the province of British Columbia.
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