Casino

Next casino fundraiser coming in 2010. Details will be posted here as soon as we have a date, and please consider volunteering to work a shift. The casino is a major source of CCLS revenue.

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CCLS is on the move and we need your help!

The Calgary Community Living Society "CCLS" has provided leadership to families who have children with a developmental disability since 1984. Though it is not "always" intentional, we find ourselves in a period in which the power to define what a service will be like is very much in the hands of the people who run our systems more so than most ordinary people including service users, families, friends and interested people in the community realize. We began 24 years ago creating services in reaction to the dominant institutionalized services of that day and we find that yet again these services have evolved into another version of the institutional human service hierarchies.

CCLS believes that consumers of services, families and others close to them are and must be the core designers of directors of the own supports because again and again systems have turned against the interests of families. CCLS knows that there are many good people wasting away within very poor service systems. CCLS knows that there are many good people wasting away within very poor service systems. CCLS wants to change this for everyone - we want to put the horse in front of the cart where it belongs. To this end, we propose a new way of doing business. We want to acquire our own family friendly meeting and office facility. This facility will have room outside for adequate parking, and inside - about 5000 square feet of spcace to include our present collaborators and comfortable meeting space for large and small groups to help us devise new ways of supporting the dreams and visions of families in the Calgary Community.

We have moved to a new, temporary, location. We will continue to work towards our goal of purchasing our own facility within 3 years. We need the help of our members to help coordinate fundraising.

Please call Jim at CCLS: 245-4665, to join the discussion.

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