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Great turn out today in brooks for the citizen walk about

Huge thank you to everyone who participated in this year's Citizen Walk About ! What a wonderful day it turned out to be.

ATHOUGH IT WILL BE A BIT CHILLY TODAY WE ARE EXCITED TO GO AHEAD WITH OUR CITIZEN WALK ABOUT TODAY. PLEASE DRESS FOR THE WEATHER.
HUGE THANK YOU TO SOBEYS LETHBRIDGE FOR THEIR SPONSORSHIP OF OUR BBQ TODAY.

$5.00 GETS YOU A BURGER, POP AND CHIPS

We are a go for the Citizen Walk About tomorrow! Dress for the weather. See you tomorrow.

Huge shout out to Cooper Rentals for the use of their BBQ to make the yummy burgers for friday's Citizen Walk about!

CWA 2024 T-Shirts are in!! Huge thanks to Fully Promoted Canada for being amazing to work with year after year! They won't miss us walking this year!

Please connect with us if you ordered a Tshirt to arrange pick up. If you have not paid please come and pay for your shirt.

We do have a few extras as well .If you do want one please come to the office with $15.00 before the 13th.

There will be no Drop in tomorrow and we will be back in the office September 3rd.
Hope everyone has a great long weekend.

T-shirt orders for the Citizen Walk About are closed now. If you have ordered a T-shirt and not paid for it yet. Please connect with us at the office. Methods of payment are cash or E- transfer to [email protected]

Thanks to everyone who ordered a T-shirt.

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Save the Date: September 13th Will be the Kickoff Citizen Walk about.
Cant make the Lethbridge event, not to worry you can catch another CWA in:
Brooks September 16
Taber September 19 and
Medicine Hat on September 20th.

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Are you a Disability Services worker? ADWA and AACT worked together to create a Wellness tool kit to help with Burnout. Check it out.

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Due to the weather we will not be having Social connections on Friday. We hope everyone stays warm and enjoys the snow. Have a great weekend everyone.

Hello!

We hope everyone is looking forward to the warmer weather coming with Spring and Summer! Please see attached our Spring/Summer workshop schedule and an advert for the upcoming Smart Devices for Beginners workshop in April 2024! We also still have space in our Community Living: Living with Others workshop starting here in March 2024 If you have any questions, please contact Mark Davids at the SAIPA office!

Smart Devices for beginners (3 week workshop) starting April 16th, 2024
Community Living (3 week workshop) starting March 28th, 2024

Just a reminder our office is closed Monday February 19th for family day .

"My History, Our Future is a video based training program created for adults with developmental disabilities to learn how to be self-advocates and for their allies to learn how to best support Self-Advocacy! After completing this workshop, self-advocates and allies will have the history of self-advocacy in Alberta, the skills to advocate for themselves and others, and the connections to make greater changes in their communities. Starts February 20th from 1-3pm. Please contact us at 403-320-1515 or at [email protected] to register in-person or to attend online!"

Come Join us for some Chili, Snacks and games at the office.