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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.
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Every family supporting a person with a disability is concerned about the future; “what will happen when we can no longer support our child?”
Safe & Secure: Seven Steps on the Path to a Good Life for People with a Disability was written specifically for families struggling with this question.
PLAN Okanagan is once again offering the 2 day Safe & Secure Book Club on March 5th and March 19th, 2022, 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM. The workshop will lead participants through the book, offering a step by step guide to creating a plan for the future which provides for the safety, security and well being of people with disabilities.
Hosted by Lena Charlton, who has worked in the diverse-ability (disability) field for 13 years and is a PLAN Okanagan Board Member, Denise Martell is a Financial Professional and former PLAN Okanagan Board Member, and Mary Bickert is PLAN Okanagan’s Community Coordinator. All three have loved ones who live with a diverse-ability.
We would like all those who are interested in this workshop to be able to attend. If you find the cost of the workshop prohibitive, please contact us at or 250-860-2080, as there are some scholarships available.
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.