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The Active Living Alliance for Canadians with a Disability (ALACD) promotes, supports and enables Canadians with disabilities to lead active, healthy lives.
Avalon Employment Inc. is a local not for profit Supported Employment service that employs a team of professionals to assist businesses and individuals in making long term employment connections
Best Buddies Vrais Copains Canada is a national charitable organization dedicated to enhancing our communities through one-to-one friendships for people with intellectual disabilities and students. Our program gives people with intellectual disabilities the chance to have experiences which most people take for granted - going for coffee, out to a movie, or simply enjoying the company of a good friend. To this end, Best Buddies establishes chapters at high schools, universities and colleges across the country.
Improving the quality of life for all Canadians affected by acquired brain injury and promoting its prevention.
The Canadian Association for Disabled Skiing is a volunteer based organization having as its main objective, assisting individuals with a disability to lead richer and fuller lives through active participation in recreational and competitive snow skiing and snowboarding.
TWe are based out of St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador. We are a group of Blind, Visually Impaired and our friends and volunteers. We organize numerous social events as well as address issues that affect the sight loss community.
The Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work (CCRW) is a Canada-wide network of organizations and individuals. Our mission is to promote and support meaningful and equitable employment of persons with disabilities. As innovators and agents of change, we build partnerships, develop skills, share knowledge and influence attitudes.
A fundraising organization with a mandate to support the physically and mentally disabled in the community, with primary support given to the Vera Perlin Society and the Newfoundland and Labrador Special Olympics. Objectives: to raise money for Special Olympics NL and the Vera Perlin Society; to provide community service that will enhance awareness of persons living with mental and physical disabilities in the hopes of improving their quality of life
Operating at the provincial and local levels, COD is an advocacy organization concerned with all persons with disabilities, promoting their rights and raising public awareness of their needs. COD is proactive, working to improve legislation and services at all government levels and networking with national and regional groups to support independence and foster positive self-concept of its members, to whom it is accountable and from whom it takes its overall direction
CHANNAL is a registered charity and the only non-profit provincial organization created by and for individuals living with mental health and addictions issues. CHANNALs primary goal is to support and encourage recovery through self-determination and the realization of full participation in society for our members.
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Eastern Residential Support Baord Inc. has been in existence an incorporated entity since 1998. However, the Board was created as a result of an amalgamation of three previous boards( United Church Group Home Board, Twin Cities Support Board, Avalon Community Accomodations Board) which dated back to 1980. We are funded by the Department of Health and Community Services and mandated to provide Cooperative Living Arrangements to individuals with developmental/physical disabilities, and in some cases psychiatric illness. The intent of the program is to provide these individuals with the necessary skills and independence to enable them to move on to less restrictive living arrangements
Our mission is to engage, inspire, and maximize opportunities for people with disabilities of all ages by providing meaningful programs and services. Our vision is for a community where all people with disabilities live full, healthy, and active lives. We are a charitable organization that has operated in this province since 1937. Since then we have tirelessly dedicated ourselves to engaging, inspiring and empowering persons with disabilities through life-changing programs and services. Approximately 100,000 people of all ages in our province live with disabilities such as physical, sensory, cognitive or other disabilities which present barriers to full participation in society. It is our mission to tear down these barriers and build an inclusive Newfoundland and Labrador.
Assist individuals with developmental disabilities (18 yrs of age or older) seek, secure, and maintain meaningful, paid employment. Genesis uses the concept of supported employment to achieve it's goal
Our mandate is to provide employment for persons with disabilities and a facility for social and recreational activities.
Inclusion Canada Newfoundland and Labrador is a non-profit organization that works with and on behalf of persons with intellectual disabilities and their families. Inclusion Canada Newfoundland and Labrador promotes a vision of communities where everyone belongs and has a rightful place; where families support a person’s right to full citizenship. It is simple really-most of us experience it every day. We are welcomed into our community, work with our peers and go to school with our friends. Inclusion Canada Newfoundland and Labrador works hard to make sure persons with disabilities are welcomed and supported in their community in the same way.
Established in November 2001, Interpreting Services of Newfoundland and Labrador Inc. (ISNL Inc) is the province wide provider of visual language interpretation services for persons who are Deaf and/or hard of hearing.
Cornerstone Housing Society is dedicated to the creation of homes where adults with intellectual disabilities and their assistants live together following the L'Arche model of community.
Working towards the advancement of education, employment, social development, legal rights and general well-being of people with learning disabilities; Act as an advocate and resource for individuals with learning disabilities and their families
To protect and promote the rights, needs and concerns of people who are profoundly Deaf or who communicate in American Sign Language within the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Northwest Rotary Community Housing Inc is a private company categorized under Apartments and located in St Josephs, NL, Canada.
People First of Newfoundland and Labrador is an organization started by individuals who have been labeled with an intellectual disability. They wanted to have a voice in their community and they wanted everybody to know that labels hurt people. They wanted to be known as people first, and started a group by that name.
The Vera Perlin Society is a not for profit, charitable organization dedicated to serving individuals with Developmental Disabilities.
