Links to Local and Provincial Resources:
Community Living BC
CLBC delivers support and services to people with developmental disabilities, children with special needs and their families in British Columbia.
Web: www.communitylivingbc.ca
Ministry of Children and Family Development
The Ministry is committed to having healthy children and families living in safe, caring and inclusive communities.
Toll free: 1-877-387-7027
Email: MCF.CorrespondenceManagement@gov.bc.ca
Web: www.mcf.gov.bc.ca
Advocate for Service Quality
The Advocate for Service Quality is Jane Holland. Jane helps adults with developmental disabilities and their families receive high quality services. She can help with service from Community Living BC, the Ministry of Children and Family Development, from other ministries, or from service agencies in the community. She was appointed by, and reports to, the minister.
She does not work directly with the government.
If you have a problem with services, you can contact Jane to talk it over. She will try to do something about it. She also encourages and helps adults to advocate for themselves.
For example, Jane will try to help:
- If you do not like the services you are getting
- If you think you are not treated fairly or with respect
- If you have problems with your social worker, financial aid worker, or support worker, or
- If you have problems with where you live
Contact Jane
Call Enquiry BC toll free at 1-800-663-7867 and ask to be transferred to Jane Holland’s office at 604-775-1238
Mailing address:
Office of the Advocate for Service Quality
Suite 820 999 West Broadway,
Vancouver, BC, V5Z 1K5
Alliance for Community Living
The Alliance for Community Living 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.
Email: webmaster@communitylivingcoalition.bc.ca
Web: www.communitylivingcoalition.bc.ca
BC Aboriginal Network on Disability Society
The BCANDS provides a variety of support service and resources to help BC’s aboriginal people with disabilities, and others associated with the disabled.
1179 Kosapsum Crescent
Victoria, BC V9A 7K7
BC Association for Community Living
The BCACL is a federation that advocates for children, youth and adults with developmental disabilities and their families to ensure justice, rights and opportunities in all areas of their lives.
227 6th Street
New Westminster, BC V3L 3A5
Phone: 604-777-9100
Fax: 604-777-9394
Email: info@bcacl.org
Web: www.bcacl.org
BC Coalition of People with Disabilities
The BC Coalition of People with Disabilities is a provincial, cross-disability advocacy organization. Their mandate is to raise public and political awareness of issues that concern them. They hope, through their work, to facilitate full participation of people with disabilities in all aspects of society and to promote independence.
204-456 West Broadway
Vancouver, BC V5Y 1R3
Phone: 604-874-0188
Fax: 604-875-9227
Email: feedback@bccpd.bc.ca
Courtenay Self-Advocacy Resource Centre
The SARC is primarily of use to people with developmental disabilities, people with other disabilities in general, and family members or people seeking information on services related to people with disabilities in the Comox Valley.
Phone: 250-334-3568
Email: centre.sarc@shaw.ca
Web: www.members.shaw.ca/centre.sarc
Family Support Institute
The Family Support Institute’s mission is to: “To strengthen and support families faced with the extraordinary circumstances that come with having a family member who has a disability.”
300-30 East 6th Avenue
Vancouver, BC V5T 4P4
Phone: 604-875-1119
Toll free: 1-800-441-5403
Email: fsi@bcacl.org
Web: www.familysupportbc.com
Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network
Plan assists families to develop a personal future plan for their relatives and facilitates the establishment of a loving and caring personal network in the lives of the person with a disability.
260-3665 Kingsway
Vancouver, BC V5R 5W2
Phone: 604-439-9566
Fax: 604-439-7001
Email: inquiries@plan.ca
Web: www.plan.ca
Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee
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.
700-808 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC V6C 3L3
Phone: 604-660-4444
Fax: 604-660-0374
Email: mail@trustee.bc.ca
Web: www.trustee.bc.ca
SelfAdvocateNet.com
SelfAdvocateNet assists people with intellectual disabilities to speak up and have their voices heard by connecting with family, friends and community members to advocate for an inclusive and caring community.
505-1380 Jervis Street
Vancouver, BC V6E 2E5
Phone: 604-688-7001
Fax: 604-688-7069
Email: bryce_schaufelberger@msn.com
Web: www.selfadvocatenet.com
Vancouver Island Heath Authority
www.viha.ca
BC Mental Health
1040-1302 Island Highway
Campbell River, BC
Phone: 250-286-7588
Community Resource Directory
www.islandhealth.ca
Campbell River Now
Your link to Campbell River
www.campbellrivernow.com
Autism Society of BC
Canadian Down syndrome Society
www.cdss.ca
British Columbia Epilepsy Society
www.bcepilepsy.com
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