The Institute engages local, provincial, national, and international organizations as partners in research and community engagement activities. Many have also funded projects or have contributed financially to support our core operations from 2008 – present. These partners will continue to be integral to the work of the Institute and with our growth our engagement with partners provincially, nationally, and internationally will grow as our capacity and reach increases.
The following community, provincial, national, and international organizations, as well as UBC Faculties and Schools have been partners in research and community engagement activities and many have also have funded projects or have contributed financially to support our core operations from 2008 – present.
F – refers to an organization that has both partnered with the CIIC and has also provided funding in cash or in-kind.
- AiMHi – Prince George Association for Community Living F
- Alzheimer’s Society Canada F
- Anvil Centre F
- Association of Neighbourhood Houses of BC
- Autism Okanagan
- BC Aboriginal Network for Disability Society
- BC Association for Child Development and Intervention
- BC Centre for Ability
- BC Centre for Employment Excellence F
- BC CEO Network F (a network with 115 community social service providing organization members)
- BC Council of Administrators of Special Education
- BC Employment Network F
- BC Ministry of Children and Development F
- BC Ministry of Education F
- BC People First
- BC Representative for Children and Youth
- British Columbia Personal Supports Network
- Canadian Association for Community Living F (national membership includes over 40,000 individual members, 400 local associations, and 13 Provincial/Territorial Associations for Community Living)
- Canadian Association of Genetic Counsellors
- Canadian Autism Spectrum Disorders Alliance
- Canucks Autism Network
- Centre for Dementia Research – The National Institute for the Study of Ageing and Later Life (Sweden)
- Centre for Welfare Reform (United Kingdom)
- Chilliwack Society for Community Living F
- Citizen Network (International, Founding Member)
- City of New Westminster F
- Community Living British Columbia F
- Community Living Society F
- Cool Arts Society
- Delta Community Living Society F
- Disabled Women’s Network (DAWN) Canada
- Douglas College
- Easter Seals BC/Yukon F
- Empowering Self Advocates to Take Action
- Family Support Institute of BC F
- Giving in Action Fund F
- IAM Cares F
- Inclusion BC F (a provincial federation with 78 member organizations providing services to people with I/DD their families in BC)
- Inclusion BC Foundation F
- Inclusion BC Self Advocate Advisory Council
- Inclusion Langley F
- Inclusion Melbourne
- Inclusion Powell River F
- Independent Living Vernon
- Institutes for Research and Development on Inclusion and Society
- International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- Kelowna Community Development Society
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University
- MOSAIC
- Nanaimo Association for Community Living F
- Newport Bay Consulting Services
- North Island College
- Okanagan College Shuswap Settlement Services
- Okanagan Nation Alliance Wellness Committee
- Pacific Autism Family Network
- Pathways Abilities Society
- People First of Canada F
- posAbilities Association of BC F
- Provincial Networking Group Inc.
- Ready, Willing and Able
- Richmond Society for Community Living F
- Saskatchewan Association for Community Living
- School of Disability Studies, Ryerson University
- School of Library and Archival Information Studies at UBC
- Self Advocate Net
- Self Advocates of Semiahmoo (SAS)
- Semiahmoo House Society F
- Shuswap Association for Community Living
- Shuswap Connexions
- Simon Fraser Society for Community Living F
- Simon Fraser University
- Spectrum Society for Community Living F
- sprOUT, a Griffin Centre Project (Toronto)
- Starbright Children’s Development Centre
- Tangled Art + Disability Society
- UBC Faulty of Education (UBC Okanagan, Departments of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Educational and Counseling Psychology and Special Education, and Educational Studies)
- UBC Okanagan Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies
- UBC Okanagan Faculty of Health and Social Development (Social Work, Nursing, Health and Exercise Sciences)
- UBC Okanagan Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences ( Community, Culture and Global Studies)
- UBC Vancouver Faculty of Arts ( Social Work, Theater and Film, Psychology, Centre for Research on Personhood and Dementia)
- UBC Vancouver Faculty of Medicine (Occupational Sciences and Occupational Therapy, Psychiatry, Genetics)
- UBC Vancouver School of Nursing
- UBC Vancouver School of Library, Archival and Information Studies
- UBC Vancouver Peter A. Allard School of Law
- University of Calgary
- University of Delaware, National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities
- University of Victoria
- Vancity F
- Vancouver Coastal Health
- Vancouver Island University
- Vela Canada F
- Western Human Resource Corp
- World Federalist Movement-Canada, Vancouver Branch
Current and Past Funding Organizations
It is important to note that many of the Partner organizations listed above have also provided funding in cash or in kind to projects, knowledge exchange initiatives of the core operations of the CIC. The two lists do not duplicate organizations.
- BC Ministry of Social Development and Innovation
- Bethesda Christian Association
- Canadian Institute of Health Research
- Clay Tree Society
- Community Living Victoria
- Community Ventures Society
- Employment and Social Development Canada
- Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
- The HOMESociety
- Thompson Community Services
- UBC Catalyzing Research Grant
- UBC Inclusion and Equity Office
- Vancouver Foundation