Strategic Links

Organizations connected to community living and/or disability related issues listed in alpha order.

Alliance for Community Living - Advocacy, Inclusion & Empowerment. (ACL-AIE) - The Alliance is an open and inclusive gathering of people and organizations dedicated to empowering individuals and families to make decisions about how they lead their lives in the community.

B.C. Association for Community Living (BCACL) - is a province-wide, non-profit federation working to ensure children and adults with developmental disabilities are able to live quality lives in their communities.

B.C. Coalition of People with Disabilities (BCCPD) - is a provincial, cross-disability advocacy organization.

Canadian Association for Community Living (CACL) - The Canadian Association for Community Living is Canada's national association dedicated to promoting the participation of people with intellectual disabilities in all aspects community life.

Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) - The Canadian National Institute for the Blind is a national voluntary agency providing services to individuals across Canada to whom loss of vision is a central problem in personal and social adjustments.

Community Integration Services Society (CISS) - The Community Services Society is committed to enabling Individuals with disabilities to become active members of their own communities.

Community Living British Columbia (CLBC) - Community Living BC delivers support and services to people with developmental disabilities, children with special needs and their families in British Columbia. It has a board of self-advocates, family and community members, as well as staff located throughout the province.

Jo Dickey Foundation (JDF) - The Jo Dickey Foundation was established to help mentally and physically challenged members of the community residing in group homes in improving their quality of life. This improvement can be achieved through the universal empowerment of this group, within their greater communities, as individuals. This is the concept underlying what has come to be known by the term "community living"; a concept conceived through the pioneering vision of Jo Dickey in the 1970's.

Kwantlen University College - Community Support Worker Program (KUC) - People with mental disabilities are increasingly participating in the community in valued roles such as friend, citizen, employee and neighbor, creating the need for qualified workers to support people in everyday activities and events of their choice. The Community Support Worker (CSW) program provides opportunities for students to develop the personal and professional knowledge and skills that are required to work in the field. The program promotes inclusion and participation, and emphasizes supporting people with dignity and respect. Classroom and practicum experiences focus on enabling the student to integrate knowledge, theory and practice, with their developing sense of self. The program is taught at the Langley Campus. Students can enroll either full-time or part-time.

Ministry of Children & Family Development (MCFD) - A Ministry department in the Provincial Government of British Columbia.

Ministry of Human Resources: Fact Sheets - Persons with Disabilities (MHR) - This site contains information about: persons with disabilities, disability assistance rates, earnings exemption for persons with disabilities, employment program for persons with disabilities Minister's Council on employment for persons with disabililities, and vehicle and earnings exemptions for caregivers of children with disabilities.

Public Guardian & Trustee of B.C. (PTGBC) - The Public Guardian and Trustee of British Columbia operates under provincial law to protect the legal rights and financial interests of children, to provide assistance to adults who need support for financial and personal decision making, and to administer the estates of deceased and missing persons where there is no one else able to do so.

Roeher Institute (RI) - The Roeher Institute is Canada's leading organization to promote the equality, participation and self-determination of people with intellectual and other disabilities.

TASH (TASH) - Described by many as pioneers of social change for persons with disabilities who have been underserved and undervalued in our society.