New laws, restoring cuts to community living on their agenda.
By Tom Sandborn
TheTyee.ca
Cathy Grant, born with cerebral palsy and confined to a motorized wheel chair, is determined to make her mark on B.C.'s fast nearing provincial election. The 54-year-old Vancouver resident told The Tyee she is pouring her efforts in fighting cuts to community living programs and supporting a pair of proposed new legal reforms.
Many other B.C. citizens who, like Grant, live with disabilities, and their family members and advocates are mobilizing to affect the outcome of the May vote and make a better deal for British Columbians living with disabilities.
Kimberly Yanko's son Daniel lives with an as yet undiagnosed developmental disability that confines him to a wheel chair. Yanko says that Daniel, 22, is getting "hardly anything" from government programs since he came of age.
"I worry what will happen to him when I am dead and gone," says the activist mother. She is part of a group of parents who call themselves CLBC Stop the Cuts. CLBC stands for Community Living BC, the Crown agency that delivers support and services to British Columbians with disabilities and their families.
On April 14, Yanko, Grant and others will gather at noon in Vancouver's Robson Square to protest items in next year's announced provincial budget that will cut funding for CLBC dramatically.
Read more here.
New laws, restoring cuts to community living on their agenda.
By Tom Sandborn
TheTyee.ca
Cathy Grant, born with cerebral palsy and confined to a motorized wheel chair, is determined to make her mark on B.C.'s fast nearing provincial election. The 54-year-old Vancouver resident told The Tyee she is pouring her efforts in fighting cuts to community living programs and supporting a pair of proposed new legal reforms.
Many other B.C. citizens who, like Grant, live with disabilities, and their family members and advocates are mobilizing to affect the outcome of the May vote and make a better deal for British Columbians living with disabilities.
Kimberly Yanko's son Daniel lives with an as yet undiagnosed developmental disability that confines him to a wheel chair. Yanko says that Daniel, 22, is getting "hardly anything" from government programs since he came of age.
"I worry what will happen to him when I am dead and gone," says the activist mother. She is part of a group of parents who call themselves CLBC Stop the Cuts. CLBC stands for Community Living BC, the Crown agency that delivers support and services to British Columbians with disabilities and their families.
On April 14, Yanko, Grant and others will gather at noon in Vancouver's Robson Square to protest items in next year's announced provincial budget that will cut funding for CLBC dramatically.
Read more here.
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