July Newsletter Now Available

The July Newsletter on Health Care Transition is now available. Click on the "newsletter" tab on the left to access it!

Don’t forget about our upcoming events:

Victoria: Tuesday, July 19 – "Everything Employment" at Victoria Disability Resource Centre 1:30-3:00pm

Vancouver: Sunday, July 24 – "Health Care Transition" at Riley Park Community Centre 1:30-4:00pm

Webinar available to watch online: The CSIL Webinar can now be viewed here:

 http://www.muscle.ca/en/western-canada/services/scholarships-and-bursaries.html.

Reminder: The Muscular Dystrophy Canada Bursary applications are due July 15, 2011. More information can be found here:

Happy Canada Day!

www.bridgestothefuture.ca/webinar.html.

June Webinar now available online

June Webinar on CSIL - Choices in Supports for Independant Living is now available under the "webinar" tab on the left hand tool bar menu. Thank you to Paul Gauthier of the BC Personal Supports Network for giving a fantastic workshop and thank you to our participants who came from all over BC, including the Okanagan, Vancouver Island, Lower Mainland, Kootenays, and Northern BC.

Vote in the Pepsi Refresh Contest!

Flex YOUR muscles and Help Muscular Dystrophy Canada Win $100,000 to Empower Youth

The 185 youth and caregivers who attended our prior Youth in Action Conferences loved it! They said we did an "awesome job", and excitedly told us about their new networks of friends and the plans they’re making for their lives. Muscular Dystrophy Canada wants to continue to offer this amazing program in the future, so we’ve entered into an online voting contest to win $100,000. We need your help! Please vote daily at Voting is easy to do and we can win this! We started off in 25th place and now we’re in 22rd place. Your votes can put us into 1st place! To vote, go to And while you’re there, please help the Jasper Fire Fighters win $5,000 by voting for them at Thank you! "I would just like to thank MDC for putting on this conference. I was so grateful to receive funding as I wouldn’t have been able to attend otherwise." Youth Participant, 2010 www.refresheverything.ca/musculardystrophy, sign in with your email address and select vote. That’s it. You can vote every day until June 30.www.refresheverything.ca/jasperfirefighterswww.refresheverything.ca/musculardystrophy

June Newsletter Now Available

The June Newsletter is now available, with articles on Food and Healthy Eating! Check it out on the newsletter tab on the left hand side of this page. Also find out details about the June contest and upcoming Bridges to the Future events and workshops!