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Unlock These Cheap Spring Break Activities with your Access 2 Card

Since 2004, the Access 2 program has been opening up new adventures and experiences for persons with disabilities across Canada. This program is specially designed to relieve some of...

Good and Full Lives Spring from Shared Living

Developing relationships, deepening bonds, living good and full lives. That’s how posAbilities, a Burnaby-based support service agency, defines Shared Living with persons who have developmental disabilities.For posAbilities, this service...

Spring into Action with our Set of Person-Centered Spring Workshops!

We’ve partnered with Vancity, BACI and FamilyWORKs to bring you four new person-centered workshop events in venues across Burnaby. This March and April, we welcome our persons served, families...

Housing Supports for Persons with Developmental Disabilities: A VPTG Panel Discussion and Workshop

The Vancouver Parent Transition Group (VPTG) is an education and support group for parents of youth with disabilities who are transitioning to adulthood. The group meets once per month...

People of posAbilities: Meet Megan Haliburton

Meet Megan, a proud ambassador for the People of posAbilities Campaign. Now a team leader, Megan has received training in various roles across the organization. In doing so, she...

Happy Holidays from the People of posAbilities!

Season’s Greetings! As we approach the end of 2018, we reflect on the many years of offering service in a sector such as ours that is constantly and rapidly...

Celebrating International Day of Persons with Disabilities in 2018

As December quickly approaches, advocates, family members, caregivers, and community leaders come together to celebrate The International Day of Persons with Disabilities on December 3rd.

A Trip Down Memory Lane: The INCLUSION Art Show & Sale Then and Now

Contributed by Gabriela Torres, Communications and Events Assistant Every year, during community inclusion month, talented artists get together and gear up for the biggest disability art show in the...

5 Tips For Increased Independence In Kids

Contributed by: Monique Nelson, Director of Community Engagement Jen Farano is a force to be reckoned with. A mother, high school teacher, and senior girls basketball coach, she knows...

Aegis West Brings The Community Together

Over the month of May, communities around the Lower Mainland donated their gently used clothing and other goods for a clothing drive, organized by our Aegis West day program....

Rock for Autism

A parent’s gift to his Au-some son benefits the greater community. Father’s Day 2018 is fast approaching, and we’d like to give a big shout out to Guy Picard,...

Celebrating Caregivers – Alisa’s Story

This week we shine the spotlight on one of our amazing Shared Living caregivers, Alisa, who shares her life with two women, each of whom has very different cultural...

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