24 posts found for people with disabilities

Step-By-Step DIY Taxes Webinar: July 16th

June 19, 2019 by DABC

Are you a person with disabilities living in BC who would like to know more about how to do taxes on your own?
Then our Step-By-Step DIY Taxes webinar is for you! Please join us on July 16th for our next webinar.

This workshop is co-hosted by four organizations: including Ki-Low-Na Friendship Society, Together Against Poverty Society, Active Support Against Poverty Society and Disability Alliance BC.

For more information and to register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/step-by-step-taxes-diy-webinar-july-16-2019-registration-63595345390.

The Lind Prize: Accessibility Tour at The Polygon

May 17, 2019 by DABC

The Polygon is pleased to offer an accessibility tour, recommended for visitors of all ages with vision loss, hearing impairment, or any other physical or social challenges. Led by an art professional, who will be speaking with a microphone, and accompanied by both a visual description guide and an ASL interpreter, this tour is designed to welcome all audiences to experience visual arts.

JUNE 6, 2019 AT 11:00 AM 
Admission is by donation, courtesy of BMO

To join the tour, meet on the 2nd floor at 10.50am. The tour will last approximately 1 hour.

The tour will guide visitors through The Lind Prize 2019. This exhibition features 11 emerging artists from British Columbia who specialise in photography, film, or video. One of these artists has been awarded the Lind Prize for 2019, a prize awarded annually to an emerging artist.

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More info: https://thepolygon.ca/event/lind-prize-accessibility-tour/

Tax AID DABC's partnership with Community Living Society (CLS) was a great success!

April 24, 2019 by DABC

L-R: Ross Chilton, Chief Executive Officer of CLS, Myung Lee, Tax AID DABC’s Program Manager and Munira Vahanvaty, CLS’ Senior Administrative Assistant who coordinated the on-site services.

Disability Alliance BC (DABC)’s Tax AID DABC program and Community Living Society (CLS) formed a new partnership for the 2019 tax season.

CLS supports individuals with developmental disabilities or acquired brain injuries to live meaningful lives as full citizens.

The Tax AID program provided on-site tax filing services for CLS’s clients with disabilities, every Thursday from February 26 to April 25 at CLS’s headquarters in New Westminster.