Events hosted by community partners from within BC. FSI is not responsible for the content, management or facilitation of these sessions. All inquiries and comments are referred directly to event organizers.
Events hosted by community partners from within BC. FSI is not responsible for the content, management or facilitation of these sessions. All inquiries and comments are referred directly to event organizers.
This family-led event will explore the intersection of familial poverty, childhood disability, and health outcomes. It will create an opportunity for families, health care professionals, and policy researchers to come together and share both their knowledge and lived experiences on equal footing to identify where we can partner to effect systemic change. Childhood disability is known to have a huge financial impact on families and children.
There is simply not enough data or awareness about the intersection of childhood disability with familial and personal lifelong financial challenges.
We want to change that.
Disability Without Poverty is a movement, led by people with disabilities supported by our families, friends, service providers, allies and organizations. Right now, our priority is to build consensus toward a federal Canada Disability Benefit that would ensure income support above the poverty line for people who live with disabilities.
Call for Artists Living in Canada
We are seeking submissions, 3 minutes maximum, of original material – a poem, song, monologue, however you express yourself – to publicize and present within and around this national conversation about Childhood Disability Poverty at our discretion.
If you’re interested in being featured, please include or attach to an email:
Send email to on or before May 1, 2023.
Families and Other Attendees: Would you like to let us know what has prompted you to register for this conference, and how it connects to your life and / or work? Please submit a short written blurb or a video submission of 3 minutes maximum by May 1, 2023 to .
Other ways Disability Without Poverty might use artist, family, and other attendee submissions and contact information:
If you prefer to remain anonymous or have questions or concerns about the use of your submitted materials, please contact
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.
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New Westminster, BC
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(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.