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Gord Tulloch hopes film festival will change perceptions

'We want to celebrate the way (disability) enriches our world,' says program director By Deb Bartlett A posGord Tulloch hopes that the upcoming Wide Angle Media (WAM) film festival will create...

Partnerships, services point to greater movement towards true inclusion

Team manager says community of belonging and engagement is taking shape By Lisa Bailey A posEnvisioning a future of full inclusion and integration for people who have a disability, posAbilities team...

Wide Angle Media Festival features films by people who have a disability

Arts and culture help people understand themselves By Deb Bartlett Being involved with the Wide Angle Media (WAM) Festival is the latest development in posAbilities’ focus on using arts and...

Expanding employment, housing options and building awareness focus for 2012

PosAbilities CEO says best achievement will be people who have a disability achieving full citizenship By Camille Jensen A posAbilities employment service that is helping people find meaningful work is...

Teamwork, openness to change made 2011 successful year, says CEO

Accomplishments includes people finding meaningful work and new housing options By Camille Jensen When posAbilities chief executive officer Fernando Coelho reviews the organization’s accomplishments over the past 12 months, he...

Learning to use public transportation opens educational doors

Nicholas uses Skytrain, buses to get to school By Deb Bartlett Learning to travel independently to school and back will open more educational doors for Nicholas. ...

Woman experiences huge success with life skills worker

Patsy books HandyDART, banks, shops independently By Deb Bartlett Life skills worker Jadwiga Dobrowolski is proud of the effort that Patsy has put into learning to cross the street and...

New bike provides Jerald with boundless adventure

Jo Dickey Foundation provides grant for new three-wheeled bike By Camille Jensen If Jerald Abney could have it his way he’d travel the globe on his bike exploring each and...

Listening and learning on the air

Community Living Show encourages participation By Lisa Bailey The old adage that people who have a disability should be seen and not heard is literally turned on its ear every...

Bradley helping new video gaming business to build its brand

Relationship is 'a win-win' for employee and employer By Lisa Bailey Bradley describes himself as “a hard worker” who enjoys gaming and movies, and is “very organized” and “can help...

Award for Can You Dig It! grows incentive to do more

Social and economic inclusion rooted in community-based project By Lisa Bailey Receiving the Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion’s (BACI’s) first Inclusion through Innovation award for posAbilities’ Can You Dig It!...

Large, ‘inspired’ crowd attends Inclusion art show

Seventh annual event demonstrates ‘boundless possibilities’ of people who have a disability, says attendee By Camille Jensen VANCOUVER – In the six years Global television broadcaster Arran Henn has...

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