The Canadian Deafblind and Rubella Association - BC Chapter (CDBRA BC) services mainly children through their Early Intervention Program, Summer Intervention Program, Summer Recreation Program and Hospital Intervention Program.
Deafblind Services Society of BC (DSS) provides professional intervention services to adults and some children. Primarly DSS operates community living services and day programs funded by Community Living BC. DSS also runs the Volunteer Intervention Program and Special Opportunities Fund.
The BC Association of the Deafblind (BCADB) is an association group whose members are primarily adults who are acquired deafblind. The have on going social, recreational and peer support programs.
All three agencies work closely together and many of us volunteer with each other. Last year, for the first time, we all came together to organize and celebrate Deafblind Awareness Week. But to move forward we must begin to work more closely together.
If we want a "Lifetime of Service" for someone who is born or acquires deafblindness, the most challenging of all disabilities, then we must come together. We must pool, share, combine, join, merge, enhance, build, grow and foster our resources collectively under one larger umbrella.
In my opinion, there is no better way for all of us to provide services today and into the future.
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