OFCP 63rd Annual Conference

Theme: "Lets Celebrate Our Uniqueness"
Location: Toronto Airport Marriott Hotel
Date: October 29-31, 2010

Watch for our conference brochure in next few weeks!

Assistive Devices Funding Program Announcement

As of June 1, 2010, the Assistive Devices Funding Program will not be accepting new applications for funding. All funds available for this funding year 2009 - 2010 have been utilized. We will be accepting new applications on September 1, 2010. Applications and guidelines for this Program will be available from our office or in printable version on our website.

You can receive our mailings electronically

In our efforts to save the environment and reduce the use of paper, The Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy would like to offer the opportunity to receive our mailings electronically. If you are interested, please e-mail us at newsletter@ofcp.ca or give Linda Woodhams a call at 416-244-9686 Ext. 238, or toll free, 1-877-244-9686.

OFCP New Programs

Day Activities Funding Assistance Programs click here.

Vacation Assistance Funding Program click here.

Tax Tips 2009 Taxation Year

A Tax Tips article for the 2009 taxation year is now available from the OFCP. The article includes information on: RDSP; Tax Free Savings Account; 2009 Tax Tips re the T2201 Disability Tax Credit Certificate, the Disability amount and Caregiver Amount.

To read the article, please click here or call us to have a copy mailed to you.

OFCP - A Member of Neurological Health Charities Canada

The Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy is a member of Neurological Health Charities Canada. The Neurological Health Charities Canada (NHCC) is a collective of organizations that represent people with chronic, often progressive, neurological and/or neuromuscular diseases, disorders, conditions and injuries in Canada. NHCC's role is to provide leadership in evaluating and advancing new opportunities for collaboration specific to advocacy, education and research projects, related to brain health. For more info, click here.

To view the NHCC's first issue of Brain Matters, a newsletter to keep Canadians touched by brain conditions informed about the National Population Health Study of Neurological Conditions, please click here.

OFCP Supports Cerebral Palsy Research

Networks of Centres of Excellence in Brain Development, a research group based at the Child and Family Research Institute in British Columbia, are in collaboration with the World Health Organization. They are in the process of conducting a research project regarding the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) as it relates to children and youth with motor impairments, specifically cerebral palsy (CP).

The OFCP has offered our support to this collaborative research project and would like to invite interested individuals to participate in their survey

Please click here for additional information about the project and related survey.

In Memoriam

Mona Winberg
President of the OFCP (1972 - 1974)

Mona will be remembered by many for her dedication to the work of the Federation. In her welcome to the 1969 OFCP Conference in Toronto, Third Vice-President Mona Winberg pointed out that, in essence, everyone had an impossible dream, and to achieve this dream we all need support, encouragement and independence. She quoted the late Robert Kennedy:

“I dream of things that never were and ask, ‘Why not?’ ”

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