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Kickstart Festival 2010 - March 8 - 27!

27-MAR-2010
Join us in experiencing this remarkable festival -- Unleashing the Extraordinary-- produced by Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture Society. Presented as part of Vancouver's Cultural Olympiad, it f ...
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familyWORKs -- A Welcome Site!

27-MAR-2010
A new website/blog for familyWORKs has just been created!   As many of you know, familyWORKs is families helping families to find innovative ways to create or find employment for loved ones who have ...
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BACI's Outcomes Measurement Report is Here!

27-MAR-2010
BACI's Outcomes Measurement Report for 2009 is now complete!  It's a comprehensive review of our achievements over the past year. Read it, look at the graphics, and be impressed!
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TYZE - Building Personal Networks!

27-MAR-2010
BACI is now able to offer secure, on-line social networks for the people we support -- through TYZE. TYZE networks connect people to an online community of caring that can help strengthen relationshi ...
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2010 Paralympics - Free Events Guide!

27-MAR-2010
Check out this comprehensive guide to find out "Where 2 Be for Free", and have fun at Paralympic venues throughout Metro Vancouver.  
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BACI Strategies Support Employment for People with Disabilities

28-MAR-2010
BACI's Board of Directors recently approved a Position Statement on Employment for People with Disabilities. Please click here to read the full document. Please click here to see a Day Services - ...
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BACI's Social Enterprise Plan!

28-MAR-2010
Please click here to learn more about some innovative ideas BACI has to create employment initiatives for people with disabilities.
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Job Opportunities at BACI

28-MAR-2010
Do you have a passion for helping people? Do you want to support individuals to build more meaningful lives and participate more fully in their communities? Do you want to work with adults or child ...
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Safeguards and People with Developmental Disabilities

28-MAR-2010
Please click here to read an important safety document for self advocates and family members of individuals with developmental disabilities, "Responding to Vulnerability: A Discussion Paper about Saf ...
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Advocacy Tips

28-MAR-2010
Please click here to see 10 Steps to Becoming an Advocate.
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EmployABILITY at BACI

28-MAR-2010
Through BACI's EmployABILITY initiative, individuals with varying abilities are assisted in securing and maintaining employment in the community -- matching them with jobs that align with their skill ...
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Life Sharing Network - Family Care Services Needed

28-MAR-2010
BACI is seeking individuals or couples who have experience supporting adults and children with disabilities, to become part of a Family Care Home model of service. A commitment to person-centered se ...
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Tutoring for Elementary School Aged Children with Special Needs

28-MAR-2010
BACI is offering FREE 45 minute tutoring sessions to help children develop their learning skillls and complete their homework, starting January 19th on Tuesdays or Wednesdays.
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Re-inventing Day Supports

28-MAR-2010
Read a new report on how agencies such as BACI are re-inventing Day Supports to better meet the interests and goals of the individuals we serve.  
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BACI -- Spreading the Word!

28-MAR-2010
BACI's communications strategies have recently been expanded, with the addition of the BACI Blast e-newsletter, and 2 more websites --  for our EmployABILITY initiative and our Grape Box enterprise. ...
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Provincial IDP Cuts a Blow to Child Development in BC

28-MAR-2010
Please see the media release from BCACL to learn more about the devastating impact of recent cuts by the BC Government to provincial IDP offices and Support Child Development Program. What you can d ...
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BACI's Advocacy Committee Invites You to Join!

28-MAR-2010
BACI's Advocacy Committee is looking for new members.  The committee is a group of parents and self advocates who work to advocate on areas of concern, and provide community groups with education on ...
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Planned Giving to BACI

28-MAR-2010
Be a part of our next 50 years. Over the past 53 years, BACI has created innovative supports and services to help children, youth and adults with developmental  disabilities to become fully particip ...
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BACI Social Enterprises Seek On-line Mentors!

09-APR-2010
We are looking for BACI staff and friends of BACI who are interested in being part of an  e-Committee to focus on 3 social enterprises – to gather knowledge about each business and create a supporti ...
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Government of Canada Tables the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

17-APR-2010
On December 3, 2009, the Government of Canada showed its support for people with disabilities by taking the first step to ratifying the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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MEDIA AND PUBLIC EVENTS

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What's New - December 3rd, 2008

Child Care - A Call to Restore and Build

In spite of over $4 billion in provincial surpluses, the BC government has cut over $40 million from BC’s already under-funded and fragile child care services.

Reductions will be phased in between April and October 2007, and include:
     - A 27% cut in Child Care Operating Funding for children from
        birth to 6 years of age, in licensed group and family child care 
     - Closure of all Child Care Resource and Referral Programs
        (CCRR’s), which provide parent information about child care options
        in communities, assist parents to apply for Child Care Subsidies,
        recruit family child care providers, and support quality in child care
        services
     - A “freeze” on major child care capital funding – for a “saving” of
        $7 million
     - A “cap” on access to Child Care Operating Funds for most new
        child care spaces.

The impacts to children, families and communities will be:
     - Parent fees will go up to cover the cuts to Operating Funds, and
        quality child care will not be affordable for many more BC families
     - Fewer children from low income families will be in licensed
        care
, as their parents are left to struggle on their won with the
        difficult child care subsidy application process
     - Wait lists will grow and more children will be in care of questionable
        quality, as the development of new licensed spaces is capped
     - Quality care will be eroded, because Child Care Resource and
        Referral Programs will disappear and caregivers will no longer have
        access to training, toy/equipment lending libraries, and other
        supports.

We encourage families to send the following messages to our BC government:
     - Commit remaining 2006/07 federal child care dollars
        (around $127 million) to the Child Care Operating Funding
        Program -- to lower fees, raise wages and improve quality
     - Commit now to maintaining current child care funding in
        BC’s 2007/08 budget
     - Make child care system building the next “major provincial project”.

BC has the money now and in the future to sustain and increase
child care funding to build a child care system. There is no excuse
for cuts to this funding.

For more information and updates, click here.
Status: Confirmed
Announced on: January 25th, 2007
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