Handy tips to consider when buying a wheelchair.

Information about Canada's new Registered Disability Savings Plan. It is intended to help parents and others to save for the long-term financial security of a child with a disability.

A unique program designed to help people with disabilities find employment and build a career at CIBC. The program offers different avenues of service depending on the clients experience, skills, and career goals.

Phone: 1-800-465-2422
Email: ccap(at)cibc.com

The objective of the Opportunities Fund is to help persons with disabilities to prepare for, obtain and keep employment or self-employment. The Fund supports an array of activities such as encouraging employers to hire workers with disabilities; increasing the employment skills of persons with disabilities; providing work experience; assisting individuals to start their own business; assistance integrating into the workplace; and providing the personal supports needed for participation in employment and employment services. Limited financial assistance is available. Call your nearest HRDC office for more information.

Phone: (780) 427-3722
Email: disability(at)canada.gc.ca
1 800 206-7218

The CCRW is a network of organizations and individuals that provides leadership in programs and services for job seekers with disabilities and businesses committed to equity and inclusion. A one-stop shop for disability and employment resources, CCRW works with businesses of all sizes in all industries through its Job Accommodation Service, Skills Training Partnership Program, Partners for Workplace Inclusion Program and the Disability Awareness Series, and more! The CCRW also provides support to individual job seekers through its WORKink^TM site, and develops disability-positive educational material for children in grades 3-5.

The National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS) is a consumer organization, with a mandate to encourage the self-empowerment of post-secondary students with disabilities. They offer an on-line directory of financial assistance, scholarships and bursaries available to students with disabilities.

Launched in the spring of 2007, handicapemploi.com is the first website for handicapped workers in Canada. It allows users to search for jobs and post offers according to various types of handicaps.

The Accessible Channel is a national descriptive, closed-captioned HD digital TV specialty service for the vision impaired and persons who are hard of hearing that is inclusive of the whole family. More than 700 films, countless television programs and entertainment will be accessible to all cable subscribers.

Since 1983, the lives of over 1200 men, women and children from the age of 8 to 84, have been enriched by the services of specially trained Dog Guides from Lions Foundation of Canada.

You may be eligible for Special Skills Dogs of Canada program for Canadians with a physical or medical disability.

Bloorview Kids Rehab created BLOOM to bring together the wisdom of families – reflected in firsthand columns such as Role Model, Parent Talk, and Trailblazer - and professionals in childhood disability treatment, research, real-world programs and education at Bloorview and beyond.

Through the Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB) program, some Nutrition Products are covered as additional benefits for Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB) recipients in defined circumstances.  Approved Nutrition Products are eligible for coverage under the ODB program only when prescribed by a practitioner as the patient’s sole source of nutrition. Patients tolerating some solid foods and requiring only supplementation in addition to food are not eligible for coverage.

Eligibility criteria :

Approved Nutritional products will be reimbursed for ODB eligible recipients when prescribed by a practitioner as the patient’s sole source of nutrition and

• oropharyngeal or gastrointestinal disorders resulting in esophageal dysfunction or dysphagia e.g.,head and neck surgery, neuromuscular disorder, or cerebral vascular disease where dysphagia prevents eating
• maldigestion or malabsorption disorder and/or significant gut failure where food is not tolerated; e.g. pancreatic insufficiency, biliary obstruction, short bowel syndrome
• patients requiring the use of a chemically defined diet as a primary treatment of a disease where the therapeutic benefit has been demonstrated; e.g. Crohn’s disease 

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