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This calendar is updated regularly, so please check back often. Get in touch if you have an event to share with us.
Learn about self-advocacy! Why is it important? What does it look like? How can you practice it?
This will be an introduction to self advocacy, with AiMHi peer advisor / self-advocate, Penny Soderna-Sutton, talking about the following: – Developing your advocacy skills is the next step to becoming a more effective advocate – Advocacy means getting support from another person to help you express your views and wishes and help you stand up for your rights – Advocacy means taking action to create change to take steps to tackle on issue – Advocacy is an activity by an person or group that aim to move affect or sway decisions – Advocacy communicate interests desires needs and right of yours self or another person.
The Family Support Institute of BC (FSI) is a provincial non-profit society dedicated to empowering and supporting families who have a family member with a disability.
227 6th Street
New Westminster, BC
V3L 3A5
(604) 540-8374 ext. 523
Support Line:
1-800-441-5403
As a provincial organization FSI acknowledges that our work spans across all of the traditional, ancestral, and unceded Indigenous territories in BC. Therefore, we respectfully honour all First Nations, Inuit and Métis people, as well as their ancestors, who have lived here and cared for these lands. It is with gratitude that we can live, learn and do our work in the province now known as British Columbia.