CANADA DAY IN LAKE COUNTRY will have a Sign Language Interpreter again this year.
Where: Beasley Park
When: 10:00 for Pancake Breakfast
11:00 for welcome and “O Canada”
Come celebrate Canada Day at Lake Country!!!
Hope to see you there!!
Canada Day – Lake Country
CDYLC
Attention Deaf Youth In BC!
– Are you a Canadian citizen
– Are you between the ages of 18 to 30
– Do you want to build network with other Deaf Youth in Canada?
The Canadian Deaf Youth Leadership Camp needs you! The deadline has passed, so just contact CDYLC to register! We need more youth from BC!
DYC-BC have some funding to support you to attend the camp (not much, but contact me at Scott@deafyouth.ca)
Support Worker – Job Posting
Are you looking for an exciting career in Social Services?
Our organization offers full benefits upon meeting eligibility requirements, great opportunities to grow within and a fun and positive environment for both staff and clients!
Exciting opportunity exists for the right individual to join a progressive and fast growing non-profit organization as a Community Support Worker who is fluent in ASL (American Sign Language). The position entails working in a one to one setting with an individual is hearing impaired, generic disorders and FASD. This position is located in Surrey.
There are 12 hours permanent available (TBD determined, based on client needs) and many opportunities to grow within.
Stephen Hume: Provincial clawbacks relegate the disabled to life of poverty
Amy Jane Brown, or A.J. as she prefers to be called, is an accomplished artist, once a teenage ballerina, an advocate and a poster girl for the amazing abilities of those members of the community we categorize as “people with disabilities.”
That categorization is just a self-serving way of soft-soaping discrimination by providing an identifying label — although A.J. defies labels.
DABC: Publication Updates
Persons with Disabilities (PWD)/Persons with Persistent and Multiple Barriers (PPMB)
Community Update
Application and Appeal Guides
Dear Community Partner,
We have completed a full update of the following application and appeal guides:
– PWD Application
– PWD Appeal Part 1: The Request for Reconsideration
– PWD Appeal Part 2: The Appeal Tribunal
– PPMB Application
– PPMB Appeal Part 1: The Request for Reconsideration
– PPMB Appeal Part 2: The Appeal Tribunal
They are available on our website at http://www.disabilityalliancebc.org/money.htm.
This series of guides is designed for advocates, but can also be used by people applying for or appealing the denial of benefits. They focus on applications, reconsiderations, and tribunals for income supports and medical supplies/services provided by the Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation.
If you would like us to mail you this publication, please call Val at 604-875- 0188 or email her at feedback@disabilityalliancebc.org
Best regards,
Jane Dyson, Executive Director
Val Stapleton, Membership and Outreach Coordinator
GVAD’s Annual 38th Cornfest and 90th Anniversary!
Here’s more updated information regarding GVAD’s Annual 38th Cornfest and 90th Anniversary!
BCCSD movie night on May 27th
Please contact Julie or Kimberly to let them know you are coming so we can order pizza for everyone!
OVAD MEETING THIS SATURDAY AT 3 PM!!
JANICE LYONS from the Medical Interpreting Service will give presentation starting after the general meeting. Will have discussion on what’s the latest with the MIS and how we can improve services in the Okanagan.
It’s at 150-D GRAY ROAD, KELOWNA, BC #55 SENIORS CENTRE, AT 3:00 pm
