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The BC Self Advocacy Foundation is a charitable organization whose sole purpose is to assist people with developmental disabilities to become full, participating citizens in their own communities.

Our Vision is a future where the voices of people with developmental disabilities are heard and respected.

Our work is supported through provincial government grants, fundraising efforts and donations from supporters like you.

Thank you to everyone who applied for a No More Barriers Community Grant!

We had an overwhelming response and are very happy to announce that we have funded 12 community projects across British Columbia to break down barriers for people with developmental disabilities (self advocates).

We have also decided to offer Community Grants each fall!

Thank you for helping us promote Self Advocacy in British Columbia.

We will keep you posted on the progress of each of these projects and hope to fund many more in our 2013 call for projects.

My name is Jo-Anne Gauthier. I live in Cranbrook, B.C. with my husband, Mike, and our two beautiful daughters Sylvia (21) and Crystal (17). My husband and I have been together 25 years.

Years ago, a friend put my name forward to sit on a board, and I never looked back. I sat on the BC Self Advocacy Caucus for six years. After a few years on the Caucus, I joined the BC Self Advocacy Foundation Board of Directors.

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My friend Rasika is a superb dancer. She is an intelligent, beautiful, and smart lady with a diversability. She speaks English and Marathi fluently. She is involved in her Indo-Canadian community through her Hindu temple and her self-employment in story-telling as a traditional classical South Indian dancer.

Photographer: Vidyut Aklujkar

A large multi-school and community Anti-bullying project that’s addressing aspects of bullying in our everyday lives through an Arts and Entertainment night.

At: David Thompson Secondary School 1755 East 55th Avenue Vancouver, BC

One voice CAN and WILL make a difference!