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Share Your Social Media Experience & Win! 

May 15, 2025 by DABC

Do you use social media? posAbilities wants to hear from you. Take the short survey below and you’ll be entered to win one of two $50 Amazon gift cards! Feel free to share the survey with others who might be interested.

What’s the research about?
In partnership with SFU, posAbilities is studying social media use among people with and without developmental disabilities, exploring:

  • Benefits and drawbacks
  • Unique advantages
  • Barriers to access

If you’re 19+ and use social media, we’d love for you to participate!

Questions? Reach out to hannah.nolan@posabilities.ca.

Survey link: https://sfufas.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_50lfle5LR1Ypff0

Download the flyer here.

Download the Spring 2025 edition of Transition Magazine!

March 14, 2025 by DABC

Cover of Spring 2025 edition of Transition. Features two smiling women taking a selfie with a smartphone, with a number of symbols representing different uses of the phone coming up out of the phone.

The Spring 2025 edition of Transition magazine is here!

The theme of this edition is Social Media: Opening the world through visibility, connection and advocacy.

Download it from our website in PDF format here and in text only format here.

Our Transition team is always glad to receive feedback and to consider articles or creative work from our community partners and from people living with a disability.

If you’d like to send along your ideas, we’d love to hear from you: transition@dabc.ca.

DABC stepping away from X (formerly Twitter)

February 4, 2025 by DABC

Disability Alliance BC (DABC) has decided to join other nonprofits and service providers in stepping away from the social media platform X ( formerly Twitter). We will keep our account but will no longer actively use the platform, and we will not be reachable through it.

X owner Elon Musk appearing to give a Nazi salute at Donald Trump’s inauguration was the final straw. We have been concerned for some time about X’s policy shifts under Musk’s ownership; it’s clear that its users are no longer sufficiently protected from harassment and hate speech. This goes against DABC’s organizational principles of providing a safe environment for those interacting with us and using our services.

This is not a decision we made lightly, as we understand that there is still a vibrant disability community on X and we regret that we will no longer be able to use the platform to share important information with this community.

We encourage our followers to stay connected with us through our Facebook  and LinkedIn accounts (facebook.com/DisabilityAllianceBC & linkedin.com/company/4863769). We have also set up a Bluesky account (bsky.app/profile/disaballiancebc.bsky.social) and will be learning the ropes in the coming weeks.

You can also keep an eye on our blog (dabc.ca/blog), contact us through direct communication methods, and sign up for our monthly e-newsletter by visiting this link: https://signup-can.keela.co/newsletter-subscription52.

Thank you for your understanding and continued support of DABC.