The BC Coalition of People with Disabilities now have some of their most requested publications on self-help, CPP, disability benefits, and health available in Traditional Chinese and Punjabi.
chinese, CPP, developmental disability, Disability, Health, HIV/AIDS, Punjabli, self-help, Seniors and Elders, Welfare, British Columbia
BC Coalition of People with Disabilities' Robin Loxton has written an article in Visions: BC's Mental Health and Addictions Journal on the various benefits available to people who are on Persons with...
Disability, Mental Health, Welfare, British Columbia
In BC, according to provincial legislature if you qualify as a "persons with disabilities" and perform at least 10 hours of volunteer work a week, you are eligible for a volunteer supplement. But...
Disability, Welfare, British Columbia
The Social Planning and Research Council of BC (SPARC BC) is a non-partisan, charitable organization operating in BC since 1966. SPARC BC focuses on social justice issues and works together with...
Disability, Ethnicity and Race, Homelessness, Housing, Poverty Research, Welfare, British Columbia
The BC Coalition of People with Disabilities (BCCPD) is working with Woodlands School survivors for their struggle for justice and compensation. Woodlands School was a provincial residential...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Children and Youth, Disability, Mental Health, British Columbia
The Ministry of Employment and Income Assistance has replace its BCEA manual for a new kind of information provider, entitled, the MEIA Online Resource. You can also access the Ministry Reports and...
Children and Youth, Disability, Welfare, British Columbia
Information on Disability Assistance in BC. In order to recieve PWD assistance you have to fill in an application form, have a physician report completed by a doctor or medical practitioner and...
Disability, Welfare, British Columbia
BC 211 is British Columbia's directory of community, social and government services. Available online or by dialling 211, where staff are available 24/7 to assist those looking for services.
Aboriginal and First Nations, Children and Youth, Disability, Government Policy, Homelessness, Housing, Legal Aid, Mental Health, Seniors and Elders, Tenants' Rights, Unemployment, Violence, Welfare, Women, British Columbia
Gallery Gachet provides artists informed by mental health issues with opportunities to exhibit, curate, perform, read, teach and to develop their leadership skills.
Art and Culture, Disability, Mental Health, British Columbia
The following are the titles of the five advocacy booklets available online or through MSS:
(A PDF viewer such as Adobe Reader is required)
ADVOCACY
COMMUNITY AND LEGAL RESOURCES
MS AND HUMAN RIGHTS...
Disability, Human Rights, Legal Assistance, Seniors and Elders, British Columbia
The British Columbia Public Interest Advocacy Centre (BCPIAC) created fact sheets that are available for download. They include a summary of the Ombudsman's report into systemic unfairness at the...
Disability, Government Policy, Human Rights, Welfare, British Columbia
As British Columbia's cross-disability advocacy organization this website provides information about their projects and publications.
Disability, British Columbia
The website of a self-help support society formed in the firm belief that Cerebral Palsied (CP) adults are the only experts on their own needs and aspirations. The VCP is controlled and operated...
cerebral palsy, Disability, British Columbia
BCANDS provides a variety of support services and resources to help B.C.'s aboriginal people with disabilities, and others associated with the disabled.
Aboriginal and First Nations, Disability, British Columbia
The B.C. Community Living Action Group (BC-CLAG) has released its report Reaching Out, Weighing In which is the result of broad based community discussions, including two major public forums hosted...
Disability, British Columbia
Social assistance policy manuals are an important source of detailed information about such questions as initial and ongoing eligibility, the treatment of assets and income, how benefits are...
Alberta, Disability, social assistance, social assistance, Welfare, welfare manual, welfare policy, welfare policy, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Québec, Saskatchewan, Yukon, All of Canada
The British Columbia Public Interest Advocacy Centre is a non-profit society that advances the interests of groups that are generally unrepresented or underrepresented in issues of major public...
consumer advocacy, consumer law, consumer rights, credit, debit, Debt and Consumer Law, Disability, disability rights, factsheets, farmworkers rights, Homelessness, Human Rights, Legal Assistance, Legal Info (PLEI), Legal Research, PLEI, Tenants' Rights, Utilities, Workers' Rights, British Columbia
SelfAdvocateNet is the website for the Abbotsford Self-Advocacy Group and a larger network of self advocates who want others to know what is possible if they speak up and stand up for their rights....
Disability, intellectual disabilities, self-advocacy, self-advocate, British Columbia
The Community Resource Database is a way to find information about activities, volunteer groups, services and supports that are available in your local community.
Many of the listings are available...
community living, development disabilities, Disability, services, British Columbia
Over the past year, the BC Coalition of People with Disabilities has been working with a number of community organizations in British Columbia through the BC Personal Supports Council to discuss the...
Disability, Technology, British Columbia
