Safe and Secure
- Six Steps to Creating a Personal Future Plan for People with Disabilities,
Third Edition
A Good Life - For
You and Your Relative with a Disability
Peace of Mind -
For You and Your Relative with a Disability CD
In 1997, award-winning
journalist André Picard, who spent a year studying not-for-profit organizations,
cited PLAN as a charity of the future; "on the cutting edge of the revolutionary
transformation taking place in Canada's voluntary sector."
In 1999, PLAN Institute
for Citizenship and Disability, a registered not-for-profit charity, was
created to respond to a growing interest from around the world in PLAN's
work.
In 2001, the Insurance
Corporation of British Columbia awarded PLAN a
$2 million endowment fund to support people with disabilities.
In 2002, His Excellency
John Ralston Saul C.C. was officially inaugurated as PLAN's national patron.
In 2003 PLAN launched
the completion of the 2002 Accountability Report - PLAN's first Social Audit
In 2004, the National
Film Board of Canada produced a documentary on PLAN's work The
Ties That Bind and created an interactive internet documentary with
regular updates, opportunities for sharing and feedback.
In 2004, PLAN presented
the idea of a Disability Savings Plan - a tax vehicle for Canadian families
to plan for the future of their loved one with a disability - over 3,00
Canadians signed the petition.
In 2004 PLAN and Vancity
Saving Credit Union announce a renewed partnership to affect positive change
within the disability community.
In 2004-2005 PLAN continues
to work on Social Policy reforms
In 2005, PLAN launches
a new website at www.plan.ca
On March 31, 2005 PLAN
and the PLAN Institute had:
3351 subscribers
1686 associates
103 lifetime members
96 networks
55 facilitators
16 full and part-time
staff members.
As of March 31, 2005
PLAN had 11 affiliate organizations:
Okanagan Lifetime Networks Association
The Road Ahead Society (Calgary)
PLAN Edmonton
Lethbridge Association for Community Living PLAN
Regina & District Association for Community Living PLAN
WSEP Lifetime Networks (Montreal)
Lifetime Networks Ottawa
Planned Lifetime Support Networks Port Elgin
Planned Lifetime Networks (Waterloo, Wellington- Oxford) and
LifeSPAN (Seattle)
In 2004, PLAN staff
and volunteers conducted over 42 workshops across Canada, Australia, Scotland
and the U.S.
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