Did you know? The average lifetime cost of care for an individual with CP is $1.5 million. Education plays a big role in empowering people with CP to realize their full potential and ambitions. On March 15th 2018, our fourth Life Without Limits Gala will partially raise funds for a life-changing initiative: the Tanabe Education Bursary. […]
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We Regret to Inform you… –Interview with the directors: Dr. Heidi Janz & Eva Colmers
By Stacey Francis Winning Awards and Breaking Barriers On May 14, 2016 the short film, We Regret to Inform you… won the EDA Award for Best Female-Directed Documentary Short at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival. The EDA Award is presented by the Alliance of Women Film Journalists and is named in honor of a founding […]
A man who keeps on giving – Yoshi Tanabe and the Tanabe Bursary Story
By Dan Chalcraft Yoshi Tanabe is extremely proud to be the namesake of the Cerebral Palsy Association of BC’s Tanabe Bursary program! The program has supported close to a hundred students with cerebral palsy to attend post-secondary school in BC and reach their dreams. The Power of Education Yoshi believes that pursuing post-secondary education […]
CPABC signs on to letter to Premier about Bus Pass Program
The Cerebral Palsy Association of British Columbia signed on to an open letter to Premier Christy Clark about the bus pass program clawback for people on disability assistance. In the letter, we join other organizations such as First Call BC and Inclusion BC to collectively urge the Premier to: Bring back the $45 per year bus […]
The good and the bad: changes to provincial Persons with Disabilities Assistance program
Two recent changes to the BC Persons with Disabilities Assistance (PWD) program increase access while at the same time clawing back transit funding. On February 11, the Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation (MSDSI) introduced legislation that will streamline the PWD application 28-page application for people with disabilities in the following programs: Community […]
