british columbia
Advocating for the quick implementation of the Canada Disability Benefit and the end of disability poverty from a British Columbia perspective.
Our Team
Amanda Lockitch
Community Organizer
Amanda’s background as a teacher, event manager, and in the theatre contributes to her team-building prowess. She lives in Vancouver with her family.
Kat Wong-Perrotta
Administrative Consultant
Kat is a writer, teacher, designer, artist, and human rights activist who lives in Vancouver with their wife and dog, Tater Tot.
Our Provincial Partners
Our Provincial Partners
- Vancouver Foundation
- Community Living Society
- Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion
- Spectrum Society for Community Living
- Kinsight
- UNITI
- Delta Community Living Society
- Inclusion Langley Society
- Inclusion BC
- Inclusion Powell River
- PosAbilities
- Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN)
- Plan Institute
- Disability Alliance BC
Community Partners
DWP Newsletter: April 2024
This month we are proud to feature Spectrum Society For Community Living! Spectrum Society for Community Living is a Vancouver-based registered non-profit society and charitable organization. Established in 1987, it emerged from the vision of a small group of friends...
DWP Newsletter: March 2024
This month we are proud to feature our partnering organization, DABC! Since 1977, Disability Alliance BC (DABC) has been a provincial, cross-disability voice in British Columbia. Our mission is to support people, with all disabilities, to live with dignity,...
3 Days in Victoria – Advocating for the CDB featuring Shape the CDB
27% of the population of Canada are disabled. 40% of the people who live in poverty are disabled. Nothing accounts for this disparity but our society’s attitudes towards disabled people. We can change this. These are the words we took with us into...
BC – Shape the CDB
BC represented 20% of the respondents in our National survey, even though BC only accounts for 13.5% of the population of Canada.
The Results Are In: OurCare Roundtable!
9,000 people shared their primary care experience with OurCare. OurCare has created one of the largest ever data sets on the experience and attitudes of people living in Canada towards primary care. Read the report here. And check out the question-by-question data...
DWP Newsletter: February 2024
This month we are proud to feature our partnering organization, Kinsight! Kinsight is celebrating 70 years of service. Founded in 1954 by parents who wanted something different for their children, their families and their community, “Kin” reflects those families,...
Contact Information
email: bc@disabilitywithoutpoverty.ca
Phone: 1 (877) 775-6652