ESC - Drop Zone® 2024
Drop Zone® is live today in Victoria, BC! 🦸🏼♂️⚡️
Join us for this thrilling adventure in support of Easter Seals™. If you can't make it, there's one last chance to be part of the excitement:
📍 Victoria, BC - September 18, 2024
📍 Toronto, ON - October 2, 2024
With only two events left in 2024, don’t miss out! For more details, visit https://thedropzone.ca.
ESC - Drop Zone® 2024
Feel the rush at an Easter Seals™ Drop Zone® event near you! 🦸🏼♂️⚡️ The adventure continues across Canada with these upcoming dates:
📍 Kelowna, BC - September 5, 2024
📍 Vancouver, BC - September 10, 2024
📍 Burnaby, BC - September 13/14, 2024
📍 Victoria, BC - September 18, 2024
📍 Toronto, ON - October 2, 2024
Don’t miss out on these thrilling events! For more details, visit https://thedropzone.ca.
ESC - Drop Zone® 2024
Whether you're a seasoned pro or a first-time adventurer, the Drop Zone® Challenge is an inclusive event where people of all abilities can push their limits and make a difference. This is your chance to experience a thrilling adventure while supporting a great cause!
Join us and be part of the excitement—sign up to rappel in a city near you at www.TheDropZone.ca. Let’s make 2024 a year of challenge and change!
#DropZoneChallenge #EasterSealsCanada
ESC - Drop Zone® 2024
Today marks the exciting start of the Easter Seals Canada Drop Zone® 2024 events, with our first event taking place in Halifax, NS! 🌟
Whether you're a seasoned pro or a first-time adventurer, the Drop Zone® Challenge is an inclusive event where people of all abilities can push their limits and make a difference. This is your chance to experience a thrilling adventure while supporting a great cause!
Join us and be part of the excitement—sign up to rappel in a city near you at www.TheDropZone.ca. Let’s make 2024 a year of challenge and change!
#DropZoneChallenge #EasterSealsCanada
Easter Seals Ontario - Camp (Sept. 25th) (1080p)
From thrilling activities to building new skills, Easter Seals Ontario summer camps offer an inclusive and supportive environment for campers with physical disabilities.
Easter Seals Ontario’s Camp Merrywood (Perth, ON) and Camp Woodeden (London, ON) give children, youth, and young adults the opportunity to participate in a wide range of activities and experience an environment where they are not limited by physical barriers or made to feel different because of their disability. Campers can discover their true potential through a wide variety of accessible and inclusive activities, including an accessible high ropes course, giant swing, sailing, canoeing, music and drama, life skills, archery, rock climbing, swimming, and so much more!
By creating opportunities to participate, push boundaries, and connect with peers, Easter Seals Ontario’s camps help children with physical disabilities develop a stronger sense of self and independence while discovering what they are capable of when limitations are removed.
Learn more about Easter Seals Ontario’s accessible and inclusive summer camps at EasterSealsCamps.org.
Easter Seals Ontario
#EasterSealsOntario #HelpingKidsBEKIDS #CampMerrywood #CampWoodeden
Easter Seals Canada Drop Zone 2024
Registration is now open for #DropZone events across Canada! 🧗🏻♀️
Regardless if you’re a pro at rappelling or have never done it before, the Easter Seals™ Drop Zone® Challenge is an inclusive event that gives people of all abilities a unique, once-in-a-lifetime chance to challenge themselves and change lives!
Learn more about the #DropZoneChallenge and sign up to rappel in a city near you at www.TheDropZone.ca.
NAAW Video - The Hon. Kamal Khera, Minister of Diversity, Inclusion, and Persons with Disabilities
Let's celebrate National AccessAbility Week with The Hon. Kamal Khera, Minister of Diversity, Inclusion, and Persons with Disabilities! This year's theme is "Forward Together: Accessibility and Inclusion for All."
Watch the video to see how individuals and organizations are advancing accessibility and disability inclusion. This is the time to celebrate the many incredible contributions that over 8 million Canadians with disabilities have made to our country. This week is also a chance to celebrate incredible organizations like yours and to highlight the important work that you do every single day to make our country more accessible and inclusive.
Join the conversation and consider what more you can do to promote accessibility and inclusion for everyone in your community.
https://bit.ly/2JXR4K3
#NAAW2024
#AccessibleCanada
#PWD
Get your red shirts ready for May 29th, Red Shirt Day™ is just a few weeks away!
Learn more about Red Shirt Day today: www.easterseals.ca/en/redshirtday
#RedShirtDay #RedForAccessAbility
Red Shirt Day is on the horizon, and our team is all set with new red shirts! On Wednesday, May 29th, join us in wearing your own favourite red shirt to show your support for Canadians with Disabilities and pledge to help create a more inclusive and accessible country.
Learn more about Red Shirt Day today: www.easterseals.ca/en/redshirtday
#RedShirtDay #RedForAccessAbility
Jackson Leavitt - Eyegaze
Every year, thousands of people across Canada benefit from the assistive equipment and adaptive technology supports provided by Easter Seals. Jackson Leavitt, a participant and Ambassador of Easter Seals New Brunswick is one of those people. 🗣
Jackson is a little boy living with a disability who is full of life! He is a happy child who brings joy to his family and everyone who knows him. His mother Hannah, describes him as “the strongest, bravest, most incredible boy” she knows.
Jackson was born very premature and at the age of 4, he required specialized technology for communication. “Jackson was born weighing 1 pound 10 ounces, and has since exceeded all of the expectations that doctors set for him,” Hannah says. “He has yet to walk, talk or eat on his own but he is always smiling.”
“Jackson is non-verbal, so by receiving the EyeGaze system, a whole world of communication has been opened to him with just the use of his eyes. We are so thankful for this amazing technology that will provide Jackson with his own voice.” – Jackson’s mother, Hannah
After receiving the Eyegaze Inc. communication aid through Easter Seals, Jackson is now able to express himself in new ways and build his confidence and independence!
By making a donation to Easter Seals, you will be helping transform lives of children like Jackson, and strengthening our century-long legacy of inclusion, accessibility, and acceptance. 💯
Donate to Easter Seals by visiting: https://easterseals.akaraisin.com/ui/donations/donations/start
Easter Seals Ontario Camp Woodeden & Camp Merrywood Recap
Stories are a powerful tribute to the difference Easter Seals has made over the past 101 years — and counting!
After two summers without in-person programming, Easter Seals Ontario welcomed campers back to Camp Woodeden and Camp Merrywood for the 2022 camp season. Thanks to the generosity of donors, they were able to offer hundreds of campers the opportunity to push their boundaries, make lifelong friendships, and discover what they are capable of in a fully accessible, inclusive environment.
This video captures some of the incredible moments of joy, adventure, friendship, discovery, and independence that were created when Easter Seals camps resumed in Ontario last summer.
Red Shirt Day 2023
Happy #RedShirtDay! ❤️
• Wear Red.
• Make a Pledge.
• Support Canadians with Disabilities.
Visit www.redshirtday.ca to learn more! #RedForAccessAbility
McQueen Home
We would like to introduce Chad, one of the residents at the McQueen Home in Edmonton, Alberta. 🙋🏻♂️
💬 "A house that was built just for people with physical disabilities was exactly what I needed" - Chad
Listen to Chad's story on how Easter Seals Alberta and the McQueen Home have made a positive impact on his life and living situation.
For over 100 years, Easter Seals has been helping people like Chad receive the support they need to live a full life and be #UnstoppABLE®.
Donate now by visiting: https://easterseals.ca/en/support-us/
Stories of Impact - Abby Quiqley
Because of you, we have some amazing stories to share about our children, youth, adults and their families and how they’ve championed with the help of Easter Seals. ✨🙏🏼
Today we'd like to highlight Abby, a participant who is a part of the Easter Seals NL Career Services programs.
💬 “Hey everyone, my name is Abby Quigley and I am a life-long participant at Easter Seals NL. I enjoyed having the opportunity to gain professional certifications to add to my resume and learn skills like budget, time management and customer service interventions were very helpful for me. I also learned how to interact with coworkers and management and learn how to problem solve in the moment". Thank you for your continued support of Easter Seals" - Abby Quiqley
On behalf of Abby and the many young people like her, we encourage you to donate to Easter Seals. Donating to Easter Seals means that you are helping to provide much needed programs and services to people living with disabilities across Canada.
↳ Be a part of someone’s story today. Donate to Easter Seals by visiting www.easterseals.ca
Senate of Canada
Yesterday, our Ambassadors ( Alex Lytwyn, Hoor Ulain Nassani, Sebastien Parent and Brandon Bowen) were in attendance and recognized at the Senate of Canada. 🇨🇦
We would like to thank Senator Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia for his message and acknowledgement of Easter Seals in front of the Senate. We appreciate you being an advocate for people living with disabilities in Canada.
"With all that has already been accomplished, I'm eager to see what the next 100 years will bring" - Senator Ravalia
#easterseals100years #cndpoli
#OneC21 Conference
That's a wrap! Thank you CENTURY 21 Canada for including Easter Seals in your #OneC21 Conference this past week in St. John's, NL!
It was an amazing few days and we were so thrilled to have the opportunity to officially present the 2021 Easter Seals Patron Award in-person.
We are proud to be CENTURY 21 Canada's charity of choice! 👏🏼
Easter Seals 100 Years
100 years of being #UnstoppABLE® 💯
Over the past 100 years, Easter Seals has helped to ensure that persons living with a disability have access to the equipment, programs, services, and support they need to make the most of their abilities and live their lives to the fullest.
Help us continue to be #UnstoppABLE®. Support persons living with disabilities across the country by donating $100 to Easter Seals. We appreciate donations of all sizes, however! :)
https://easterseals.akaraisin.com/ui/100for1002021/donations/start
#EasterSeals100Years
Jackson Leavitt - Eyegaze
Every year, thousands of people across Canada benefit from the assistive equipment and adaptive technology supports provided by Easter Seals. Jackson Leavitt, a participant and 2022 Ambassador of Easter Seals New Brunswick is one of those people. 🗣
Jackson is a little boy living with a disability who is full of life! He is a happy child who brings joy to his family and everyone who knows him. His mother Hannah, describes him as “the strongest, bravest, most incredible boy” she knows.
Jackson was born very premature and at the age of 4, he required specialized technology for communication. “Jackson was born weighing 1 pound 10 ounces, and has since exceeded all of the expectations that doctors set for him,” Hannah says. “He has yet to walk, talk or eat on his own but he is always smiling.”
“Jackson is non-verbal, so by receiving the EyeGaze system, a whole world of communication has been opened to him with just the use of his eyes. We are so thankful for this amazing technology that will provide Jackson with his own voice.” – Jackson’s mother, Hannah
After receiving the Eyegaze Inc. communication aid through Easter Seals, Jackson is now able to express himself in new ways and build his confidence and independence!
By making a donation to Easter Seals, you will be helping transform lives of children like Jackson, and strengthening our century-long legacy of inclusion, accessibility, and acceptance. 💯
Donate to Easter Seals by visiting https://easterseals100.ca/
#easterseals100years #MyEasterSealsStory
Stories of Impact
For 100 years, Easter Seals organizations across Canada have been impacting the lives of people living with disabilities nation-wide. 💯
Stories are a powerful tribute to the difference we have made to people like Courtney Martin from Newfoundland and Labrador. Thanks to the Easter Seals NL Opportunities Fund, Courtney has been working full time with Debbie Hanlon Real Estate for 6 years! 🏡
It's also through the Opportunities Fund that employers are able to hire a loyal and dedicated employee and we are thrilled to be able to provide Debbie with the resources she needed to hire Courtney!
Be a part of someone’s story today. Donate to Easter Seals by visiting https://easterseals100.ca/
#MyEasterSealsStory #EasterSeals100Years #StoriesOfImpact
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2022 Summer Camps
Easter Seals camps are BACK for 2022! After two summers of virtual camps, we are thrilled to see campers being welcomed back in-person to our camps across Canada!🚣🏾♀️🌳
Chloe Fraser, a longtime Easter Seals Ontario camper, will be returning to camp later this month. Watch her interview with Brandon Rowe of CityNews Toronto to hear her explain the importance of in-person camp and why she can't wait to get back this year!
"It's also a good part of Easter Seals Camp because you get to meet new friends and get to know that you're not the only one in a wheelchair" - Chloe Fraser
#EasterSealsCamps
#MyEasterSealsStory
