Take Action – Community Living Cuts
Last updated: November 2010 - Please also see the BC CLAG website for updates on our Community Living campaign
Letters/Statements
- Community groups urge Advocate for Service Quality to intervene. In an unprecedented move, community organizations representing people with disabilities, families, employers and employees have come together to urge the Advocate for Service Quality to intervene to stop the community living cuts, group home closures and forced relocations. Read the letter
- Letter from BC FamilyNet to Minister Coleman: Read it here
- Letter from BC Coalition of People with Disabilities to Minister Coleman: Read it here
- Letter from the Opposition Critic for Community Living, Shane Simpson to Minister Rich Coleman re group home closures. Read the letter here
- MOMS August 2, 2010 letter to Minister Rich Coleman urging the minister to stop group home cuts and forced relocations: Read the letter
- Letter from Nicholas Simons, MLA for Powell River/ Sunshine Coast to Minister Rich Coleman first raised the alarm over group home closures: Read the letter here .
Advocacy Tools
One concerned Dad produced this moving U-Tube video to share his concerns:
What you can do
- Contact Minister Coleman at [email protected] and/or your MLA to express your concerns: Find your MLA
- Write letters to your local media outlining how the cuts are impacting adults with developmental disabilities in your community.
Sign our online petition