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Profile of NSDRCA

The North Shore Disability Resource Centre (NSDRC) has been providing services to people with disabilities and their families and friends in North and West Vancouver for almost 25 years. Programs and services are provided to individuals from birth through adolescence and on through young adulthood and later life. Programs include the Infant Development Programme; one-to-one goal focused child support workers, teen program, adult life skills and day program supports for adults. The NSDRC also operates a group home for children who have multiple disabilities and eleven group homes for adults needing varying levels of support.

In July 1998 to Resource Library, dedicated to the memory of well-known disability advocate Ed Desjardins, was officially opened. The library is an integral component of the Information Service Program which provides information and referral, public education and advocacy services.

The NSDRC is proud to have been a founding member of the North Shore Together Against Violence Network in 1993. Every year during Together Against Violence Month a special edition of the IMPACT newsletter is produced, focusing on issues of violence and abuse with respect to people with disabilities.

Pam Horton
Past President, NSDRC

Contact the North Shore Disability Resource Centre at: Phone (604) 985-5371 or Fax 985-7594.