The Prince Rupert Self Advocacy Group will be hosting its 14^th Self Advocacy Conference from Oct 23, 2012 to Oct 25, 2012.

This year’s theme is Futures on the Horizon. The Prince Rupert Self Advocacy Group says that many of today’s people who have a developmental disability have fought for the same rights that we all share. They want to have the same things in life we all love. Just like a sunset or sunrise their futures are on the horizon, where instead of seeing an individual with a disability we see Tom that hard working guy, or Samantha who loves to paint. One day we will just see people without labels, without prejudice without faults.

Guest Speakers will be talking about employment and what it means to your business, your family and your community. Tickets will be $175.00 this includes full conference a dinner and dance. Conference tickets $65.00 per day without the dinner and dance. Snacks will be provided at all breaks.

For more information and to register for the event, please contact Fairview Management Services at: (250) 627-4748. Please RSVP by Oct 2, 2012.

Researchers at the University of Victoria are interested in examining the different ways that parental caregivers of adult children (i.e., 19 years of age and older) with intellectual disabilities (i.e., significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behaviours, which extends to a variety of social and practical skills) plan for the future of their children.  If you are the parent of an adult child with an intellectual disability, you are eligible to participate.

The information obtained through this research could aid in developing methods for better assisting and supporting parental caregivers as they face the challenging task of planning for the future of their loved ones.

Participation in this research involves completing a brief electronic questionnaire. In addition, if agreed to, there is the possibility that participants will be contacted at a later date for a follow-up audio-recorded phone interview. Participants are under no obligation to agree to follow-up contact.

If you are interested in participating or have further questions, please contact Megan at cainesm@uvic.ca or 250-858-5836.

Thank you for considering this research project!

To celebrate our 35th anniversary, BCCPD will be designing a new logo.

We’d like to know what people in the community think about us and our work. This will help us to brainstorm on the best way to communicate what we do in our logo design.

Please take a minute to give us your opinions and impressions, and your name will go in a raffle to win a gift certificate to a local coffee shop or bookstore.

Thank you very much for your feedback–we really appreciate it!

Deadline for feedback is September 19/12.

Click here to do our very short survey.