Every summer, more than 6,000 kids living with disabilities attend one of 14 specialized, fully-accessible Easter Seals camps across Canada, but there are many more who never get this opportunity. Through the Kids to Camp Campership Fund, Easter Seals provides life-changing summer camp experiences for kids living with disabilities from lower income families who could not otherwise afford to send their child to camp.
Through the AccessABILITY Program, Easter Seals provides financial assistance and delivers a range of direct-to-client programs to help ensure that Canadians living with disabilities have access to essential mobility equipment, assistive technology, communication devices and learning aids to maximize independence and improve quality of life.
The Ability to Succeed Scholarship Program assists Canadian youth living with disabilities with the ever-increasing cost of post-secondary education. Along with helping to cover the cost of traditional academic expenses such as tuition and books, an Ability to Succeed Scholarship also helps students cover the added expenses that are unique to those with disabilities—the specialized equipment, technology and support that some students require to make learning possible.
Through the ActiveABILITIES Program, Easter Seals challenges Canadians with disabilities to get active and get involved. Easter Seals provides a wide variety of specialized, fully-accessible sport, recreation and active living programs for kids and adults with a range of physical, cognitive and sensory disabilities. These programs are offered and delivered at Easter Seals’ own facilities, through community facilities, or at Easter Seals’ camps across Canada.
Through the ArtisticABILITIES Program, Easter Seals encourages kids and youth living with disabilities to get interested and involved in the arts. Easter Seals provides a wide range of specialized arts programming that gives kids living with disabilities the opportunity and the means to explore their individuality and embrace what makes them unique. These programs are offered and delivered at Easter Seals’ own facilities, through community facilities, or at Easter Seals’ camps across Canada.
The IncredABILITIES Grant Program provides funding for kids living with disabilities to follow their dreams, pursue their passion and reach their full potential. Easter Seals believes that every goal is important and no dream is too big or too small. Whether it’s to play on a sledge hockey team with friends, or whether it’s to one day be the Prime Minister of Canada, Easter Seals believes in helping kids living with disabilities pursue their passion and achieve their dreams.
At Easter Seals, we believe that individuals have the power to affect change in the choices and purchases we make. And we have incredible partners who agree with this, and seek to contribute positively and responsibly to the health and well-being of our communities. Hence, Product:Abilities was born to provide Canadians with another way to support Easter Seals, simply by purchasing a product or experience from an Easter Seals Product:Abilities Partner. These partners will then in turn donate a portion or proceeds of the sales to Easter Seals to help fund programs and services in support of Canadians living with disabilities/diverse abilities.
To discuss any of these national funding or partnership opportunities, please contact:
Easter Seals Canada
partnerships@easterseals.ca
Toll Free Tel: 1-877-376-6362
Easter Seals Canada is proud to be accredited by Imagine Canada’s Standards Program for excellence in financial accountability and transparency, board governance, fundraising, staff management and volunteer involvement.
