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SPOTLIGHT: FSI Resources for Caregivers!

Hey everyone, we’re focusing our posts on CAREGIVERS this month. We know that one of the challenges faced by many caregivers is…connecting with other caregivers, and connecting those they care for with others.

So…here is a great resource!

The Family Support Institute of BC offers their Calendar for Connection, as well as several other, each month. We’ve posted their events before, but we wanted to make sure you’d heard about ALL their calendars!

  • Check out the Calendar for Connection here.
  • Check out the calendar of Family Support Institute events here.
  • Check out the FSI list of external (partner) events here.

Lots happening online, too! Check it out.

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Rights & Responsibilities…

Hey everyone, as you know we’ve been posting topics for Community Inclusion month and last week we talked a bit about self advocacy.

A really important part of self advocacy is standing up for your own rights. We have a whole page that talks about rights and responsibilities here, complete with help to understand different kinds of rights, like:

Everyone has rights as a person in Canada, and rights as a person in BC. If you have a disability and you are getting supports, you also have rights as a person who uses the services of Community Living BC (CLBC).

With all those different kinds of rights in mind, we thought this would be a good time to remind ourselves about this awesome conversation that helped explore rights and responsibilities:

If you’ve got questions about rights and responsibilities, please let us know or leave us a comment.

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It’s PRIDE WEEK!

Hey everyone, October 24-31 is PRIDE WEEK in Kelowna, and there are a whole bunch of events going on to celebrate 25 Years of Kelowna Pride! You can check it all out here, including the bike derby, trans and non-binary storytelling evening and social, pride festival and pride cabaret.

You can find Kelowna Pride Society on Instagram at the link below, on Facebook here, and you can read about Pride Week on KelownaNow.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CVQb3rgJCdP/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

https://youtu.be/bbKl-jruuw8
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SPOTLIGHT: Local Documentary Wins!

Hey everyone, this past weekend marked the screening of the documentary “Shiny Objects – The Conductor with ADHD” in Kelowna. As CBC News reported back in August, the documentary won the New York International Film Awards’ best inspiration film title! The filmmaker, Gillie Richards, found out while she was making the documentary that she also had ADHD.

Check out more information in the video posted by Castanet about the documentary:

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