There are many physically disabled people whose particular needs are not
covered by any other agency or government department; and there are many
others who cannot meet the cost of rehabilitation services they require. These
are the people who, in B.C., are helped by the Kinsmen Rehabilitation Founda-

tion's direct and indirect programs.

Yes

{Indirect Programs

Patient Care
Department

of the KRF, in the 1979-80 fiscal year, pro-
vided over 1100 services to children and
adults in B.C.

Typical of the many services provided were:
.® appliances, such as braces, artificial
limbs, orthopaedic shoes, lifts, etc.;

@ accommodation and transportation ex-
penses to medical centres.

The department's Equipment Loan Program
provides people with such items as Fataps,
wheelchairs, elevators, hospital beds, watk-
ing aids, etc. ona free permanent loan basis.
There is a regular program of follow-up for
repair and maintenance of the leaned items.

The Disabled
Living
. Resource

meets a long recognized need in providing answers
on any subject telated to the lives of physically
handicapped people, with the exception of
medical matters. ,

The Centre is an addition to the existing Patient
Care and Technical Aids Programs of the Founda-
tion, and is the only one of its kind in Canada,
Subjects covered range from bathrooms, clothing
and general household equipment, to mobility
aids, accommodation, employment 2nd feisuze ac-
tivities.

Featured are displays of sites to daily living for
disabled people, including actual equipment.
These are augmented by pictorial and audio-visuat
representations,

ht provides fullest details on availability of aids,
their scurce and price, as weil as an information
and referral service,

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The
Technical

Provides the almost totally disabled Person
with some control and/or means of com-
munication through electronic. equipment
activated by sensitive micro switches. The
Foundation pioneered this type of equip-
ment in Canada and, since the first unit was
installed in 1973, over two hundred have
deen placed by the KRF with severely disabl-
ed persons in 8.C., more than the total in the
rest of the country. This equipment gives
them a degree of self-reliance, limited but
cherished, to do everyday things. for
themselves — things that we all take for
granted. The Foundation is also now to the
fore in providing electronic aids to severely
disabled people who have also lost the power
of speech, enabling them to communicate.

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Assistance to the physically disabled through
Foundation grants to:

Vocational Services
* Garth Homer Society for the
Handicapped, Victoria

Medical Services
% Canadian Hemophilia Society (B.C.
Division) :
* Poison Control Centre, Vancouver
General Hospitat

Program Review & Development Services
* Canadian Rehabilitation Council for
the Disabled

* SPARC of B.C. (Panel on
Handicapped, a committee of the
Social Planning and Review Council
of B.C}

Self Uelp Groups

is an important part of the rehabilitation Programs of XRF» It works to awake and increase awaeness
among the public of the needs of the haadicapped. Through the print and elecironic media, the
publication of the KRF’s quarterly journt, IMAGE, and other Projects, it informs the public, rehabilita-
tion professionals, and physically disabled Persons, of the KRF's aims and the services it provides, and of
new developments in the field of rehabilitation. Although separate fram the fund-raising side of the KRF,
the Public Awareness Department designs and implements the Kinsmen Mothers’ March, publicity cam-
paign. . :

* B.C. Wheelchair Sports Assocation
%® Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

* B.C. Coalition for the Disabled

* Handicapped Action Committee

* Pearson Hospital ,

The Public
Awareness
Department

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