Hey everyone, join Becky from posAbilities in Kelowna or Penticton this April for a lunch and learn discussion about Navigating Restrictive and Prohibitive Practices in a Home-Share Setting. Details below!
HOME SHARE: Share your story!
Hey everyone, check out this opportunity to share YOUR home share story!
Request for Stories from Home Share Providers, People living in Home Share and their Families
As part of updating CLBC’s Home Share Handbook, the Home Sharing Handbook Working Group Committee has made an extensive revision of the various existing handbook materials, identified additional topics of importance that have surfaced in conjunction with the frequently asked questions about Home Sharing. The first draft of this project is to design a new resource handbook called an ‘Introduction to Home Sharing’ with specific go to references for Home Share Providers, People living in Home Share and for the persons family. Included in the content of this resource will be stories and videos about experiences in Home Sharing. These stories will invite enthusiasm and provide clear insight as to what Home Sharing exactly means.
If you are presently a Home Share Provider or a Person Living in Home Share or a family member, please share your stories! Your experiences with Home Sharing are valuable and important in understanding what Home Share truly means. Everyone’s successes tell a different story. We understand every person with diverse abilities assisted in Home Share are unique and come from different cultural backgrounds. The composition of the family of Home Share Providers varies as does living in rural regions.
Please forward your stories by Monday, March 16th, 2020. You can do so either by email to adultcare@shaw.ca or by mail to COPCS, 1844 Golbeck Court, Kelowna, BC, V1P 1L7. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact us at 778-753-2625. We look forward to hearing your stories and inspiration! Please share this email with your Home Share networks.
Sincerely,, Margaret Milsom & Jack Sawatzky (Committee Members of the Home Share Handbook Working Group)
Kelowna: CCSS visits our local Radio Stations!
Hey everyone:
So, check this out! The community support crew in Kelowna organized a trip and tour of our local radio stations. Check out the video organized by our intrepid reporter Amit Ghosh and filmed and edited by our very own Kathy Herbert.
Great video – what an incredible day!
Goodbye dear friend…..
It is with much sadness and heavy heart that we announce the passing of our dear friend Mary Nicholas. Our friendship with Mary started 25 years ago and we have all been blessed to receive her kind and gentle guidance. She has made us better people. We will miss her dearly and will always remember her fondly. There will seldom be a spring breeze that won’t bring her gentle intention in its warm embrace.
MANDT Training!
Hey everyone, there is a MANDT training opportunity coming up in Castlegar on March 12th. Check it out – sign up by March 5th.
Kelowna: March 6 – Dance at PRC!
Hey everyone:
Please see the attached poster for the dance at Parkinson Rec on March 6 with live band Easy Fix. Looks like a blast! And pizza too!
See you out there!
CLBC: Winter 2020 Newsletter Released
Here’s the latest CLBC Newsletter, lots of great stuff to check out.
Okanagan Self Advocates: 2020 Winter/ Spring Speaking Series
Hey all:
Check out the poster for the Okanagan Self Advocates Speaking Series. Great topics and an opportunity to learn and have your voice heard.
See ya out there!
WK: First Aid in Fruitvale
Hey everyone, there is a First Aid course coming up in April in Fruitvale – check out the information here:
Your Vancooooouver Canucks!
Hey everyone!
We’re doing it again… the community support crew in Kelowna is arranging a Vancouver Canucks trip to head down to Vancouver to see the ‘nucks play the Las Vegas Golden Knights.
Join us!