PROGRAMS UNDER DEVELOPMENT

Pediatric Respite / Hospice House

This program is in the planning stages. Our dream house will include:

- 8 private theme rooms with en suites
- 2-3 family suites
- communal gardens, patios and verandahs
- great room for activities and socializing
- family-style dining room
- kitchen and pantry
- indoor spa for hydrotherapy
- school room
- media theatre room
- library resource center
- multisensory room
- indoor and outdoor play structures
- laundry facilities
- meeting and quiet rooms
- main bathroom with century tub
- nursing station

Respitality Central Okanagan

Respitality will involve hotels, restaurants and entertainment businesses donating services to ABCD for distribution to families who have children with special needs.

Opportunities will be given to participating families to enjoy an evening out, and to relax and rejuvenate themselves, while their child is cared for in their own home.

Families will register for Respitality through ABCD. They will then be matched with an overnight stay in a local hotel or bed & breakfast, a restaurant dinner and/or a movie or play - all graciously donated by the hospitality industry.

This program will be offered free of charge to families with children who have special needs. This program is in the planning stages.

Adopt an MLA Campaign

The Adopt an MLA Campaign is designed
to bring MLAs across the province into the homes of families with children with
disabilities. A family invites an elected
official for an informal visit, maybe even
dinner, hoping to create a relationship and increase their MLA's understanding of one family's day-to-day challenges.

The project's goal is to bring the family and MLA together in a home, not an office. This interaction will empower the MLA to discuss,
in the Legislature, issues involving children
with disabilities and their families.

This campaign is in the planning stages.