Self-Directed Living...
Fulfilling Life

Empowering people with disabilities to take greater control of their lives by forming a Microboard, accessing Individualized Funding, or using a Person Centred Society.

A family standing around their loved one in a wheelchair

Microboard

A Microboard is a small (micro) group of committed family and friends (a minimum of five people) who join together with a person with a disability to create a non-profit society (board). 

Man with Down syndrome fixing his bike

Individualized Funding

Individualized Funding is a payment option from Community Living BC that allows recipients to develop their own support services.

A support staff pouring a coffee for a boy with a disability

Person Centred Society

A Person Centred Society is a small non-profit that offers support to individuals and operates under the BC Societies Act.  

A family standing around their loved one in a wheelchair

Microboard

A Microboard is a small (micro) group of committed family and friends (a minimum of five people) who join together with a person with a disability to create a non-profit society (board). 

Man with Down syndrome fixing his bike

Individualized Funding

Individualized Funding is a payment option from Community Living BC that allows recipients to develop their own support services.

A support staff pouring a coffee for a boy with a disability

Person Centred Society

A Person Centred Society is a small non-profit that offers support to individuals and operates under the BC Societies Act.  

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