Individualized Funding Resource Centre Society

07/28/2026

CSIL Employer Tom Cretain lost access to HandyDart services after 28 years of their service, when HandyDart, without notice, decided they could no longer safely transport him.

Included are two News links to this ongoing, important story:

Global News July 26th, news release: https://globalnews.ca/video/11994682/surrey-resident-housebound-after-loss-of-handydart-service/

Global News July 26th, update:
https://globalnews.ca/news/11995791/translink-no-longer-accommodate-handydart-user/

Tom Cretain has spinal muscular atrophy and isn't able to sit up. For decades he has relied on HandyDART to drive him to his destinations on an accessible bus or taxi.

07/28/2026

CSIL Employer Tom Cretain lost access to HandyDart services after 28 years of their service, when HandyDart suddenly decided they could no longer safely transport him.

We are including two links to this ongoing, important story:

Global News July 26th, news release: https://globalnews.ca/video/11994682/surrey-resident-housebound-after-loss-of-handydart-service/

Global News July 26th, update:
https://globalnews.ca/news/11995791/translink-no-longer-accommodate-handydart-user/

Tom Cretain has spinal muscular atrophy and isn't able to sit up. For decades he has relied on HandyDART to drive him to his destinations on an accessible bus or taxi.

07/21/2026

The IFRC is grateful to the Petro-Canada CareMakers Foundation for their generous support of our CSIL Navigator Program.

The Petro-Canada CareMakers Foundation’s commitment to helping caregivers and persons with disabilities, strengthens the IFRC’s Navigator Program which helps British Columbians with disabilities to successful manage individualized funding programs that promote independent living and community participation.

Our thanks to Petro-Canada CareMakers Foundation for making a meaningful difference to the IFRC clients.

04/22/2026

Please sign this petition to save the Right Fit Program! Your support and participation is greatly appreciated.

SIGN NOW: ONLINE PETITION TO SAVE THE RIGHT FIT PROGRAM! 📩

🔗 Link: https://c.org/N9X4MdVVLL

By signing and sharing this petition, you can help protect accessible housing for wheelchair users. 🤝 Demand urgent federal action to save the Right Fit Program, which is at immediate risk of shutting down due to a sudden loss of federal funding.

Without urgent action, this proven program will end—leaving hundreds of people with disabilities without the support they need to find safe, accessible housing.

Want to do more? Join our public rally in on Wednesday, April 22nd: https://disabilityalliancebc.org/join-us-at-a-public-rally-to-save-the-right-fit-program/

Individualized Funding Resource Centre Society



Gregor Robertson

04/17/2026

Thank you DABC, for posting this full video of the Right Fit Program's Press Release event held on April 2nd.

Please continue to watch for updates and new information.

To view the YouTube video, click see more and choose the YouTube link. Thank you!

On April 2nd, 2026, Disability Alliance BC and our Right Fit Program partner Individualized Funding Resource Centre Society held a press conference at the Ha...

04/16/2026

Please join the Right Fit Team and Supporters at the upcoming Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026 at 2:00PM Public Rally held at Honourable Gregor Robertson’s, Minister of Housing, constituency office at 3150 E. 54th Avenue, #360 to ask for a priority response to the serious crisis faced by the Right Fit Program! We need your help!

📢 Join us at a PUBLIC RALLY to save The Right Fit Program! 📢

The Right Fit is a vital program that matches wheelchair users with safe, accessible housing and it is at serious risk of ending. We need YOUR help to keep it going. Help us tell federal Minister of Housing and Infrastructure Gregor Robertson and other decision makers why this program is so important.

📆 When: Wednesday, April 22nd at 2 pm PT.

📍Where: Office of the Honourable Gregor Robertson ( #360-3150 E 54th Ave, Vancouver).

Thank you for supporting us!

Individualized Funding Resource Centre Society

04/16/2026

Thank you to the Balanced Supply of Housing, an Association made up of Academics and Officials across Canada in community partnership, for focusing their attention on the crisis facing the Right Fit Program!

A critical program in British Columbia that matches accessible housing to wheelchair users has lost its federal funding.

04/04/2026

Thank you to everyone who turned out to support the Right Fit Program's Press Conference. A special note of gratitude to the reporters who covered the event and whose stories were published with haste.

Feel free to share the post, to spread the urgency of this critical issue.

04/01/2026

In partnership with Disability Alliance BC (DABC), IFRC is standing with the Right Fit Program. After nine years of life changing success for wheelchair users, the Right Fit is at risk of losing federal funding. Please join us at the Harmony Building. Please share to help ensure wheelchair users in our community are not left behind.

Press conference: Thursday, April 2 at 12:00 PM
Harmony Building, 1451 East 12th Avenue, Vancouver

Please refer to the following link, for the event.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1210515660924165?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22me%E2%80%A6