Searching for Home
Registration now open for "Searching for Home", January 26-27, 2012
Searching For Home:
a national forum on policy, practices and innovations in building and sustaining real homes for people with intellectual disabilities
Join the conversation with people from across Canada as we strategize, reflect and plan how to support and create real homes with real choice for people with intellectual disabilities.
January 26-27, 2012
Coast Plaza Hotel and Suites
1763 Comox Street
Vancouver, BC
Registration fee: $150. Includes continental breakfast, coffee and lunch.
Scholarships available; please contact kdelong@bcacl.org for application.
Discussions include:
Making a House a Home: disability supports, the meaning of real choice, addressing isolation, and creating full lives in the community
Partners Old and New: creative financing, home ownership, partnerships with private developers, social housing, co-operative housing, leveraging assets, and sustaining accessible housing
Access, Affordability, and Inclusion: facilitating homes, income supports, homelessness and poverty, subsidies, and sustainability
Comfort Rooms with a city view are available at a rate of $99/night for attendees, or One Bedroom Suites with a water view rate are available at a rate of $139/night for attendees.
Please make reservations by phoning the Coast Plaza Hotel and Suites 604-688-7711.
If you require further information, please don’t hesitate to contact Charlotte Kates by phone: BCACL office at (604) 777-9100 ext. 503 or email ckates@bcacl.org