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Text reads: "2025 Federal Election. Make your priorities known. Inclusion Alberta." On the right is an icon of a ballot box with a red ballot coming out of the top. The box has the word 'vote' on the front of it.
April 4, 2025

Inclusion Alberta encourages every Albertan 18 years and older, including those with intellectual disabilities, to participate in the federal election and exercise their right to vote on election day, April 28, 2025. […]

Inclusion Alberta Rotary Employment Partnership. Bayley at Blackfalds IGA
April 1, 2025

Inclusion Alberta’s Rotary Employment Partnership is creating life-changing job opportunities while providing an untapped labour market to Alberta’s business community. The partnership has created over 850 jobs to date in […]

Gift of flight. Win a roundtrip flight for two guests to any regularly scheduled and marketed WestJet destination, with all proceeds going to Inclusion Alberta! Inclusion Alberta, WestJet
March 24, 2025

Our friends at WestJet have graciously donated one roundtrip flight for two guests to any regularly scheduled and marketed WestJet destination*, and we are raffling them off with all proceeds go to […]

Government of Alberta depriving tens of thousands of AISH recipients poverty relief by clawing back Canada Disability Benefit
March 20, 2025

For immediate release – March 20, 2025 The decision by the Government of Alberta to claw back the Canada Disability Benefit (CDB) dollar for dollar will deprive support from tens […]

Text on the left reads: "Inclusion Alberta. Rotary Employment Partnership. Dan at White Cap Red Deer". On the right is an image of 3 workers standing next to each other. They are in a warehouse setting with black oil drums in front of them. They are wearing yellow and orange safety vests, and all are smiling.
March 10, 2025

Inclusion Alberta’s Rotary Employment Partnership is creating life-changing job opportunities while providing an untapped labour market to Alberta’s business community. The partnership has created over 850 jobs to date in […]

Alberta Budget 2025. Budget 2025 leaves 1000’s of children and adults with intellectual disabilities and their families in crisis. Inclusion Alberta
February 28, 2025

For immediate release – February 28, 2025 Budget 2025 provides increases to the Family Support for Children with Disabilities (FSCD) and the Persons with Developmental Disabilities Program (PDD) but falls […]

Inclusion Alberta applauds Edmonton parents who challenged discriminatory Ministerial Order
February 21, 2025

UPDATE: FEB. 27, 2025 Inclusion Alberta is pleased that the Minister of Education has issued a new Ministerial Order that no longer discriminates on the basis of disability but fails […]

Action urgently needed. Contact your MLA about FSCD and PDD. Inclusion Alberta
January 23, 2025

It has been three years since the Alberta government released data related to the Family Support for Children with Disabilities (FSCD) or Persons with Developmental Disabilities (PDD) programs, such as how many eligible children and […]

Cut to children and adults with intellectual disabilities and their families. Inclusion Alberta
January 22, 2025

For Immediate Release – January 22, 2025 Inclusion Alberta supports children and adults with intellectual disabilities and their families across the province. We bring families together in both rural and […]

Inclusion Alberta releases survey results on FSCD and PDD. Bureaucratic and systemic barriers.
January 20, 2025

For Immediate Release – January 20, 2025  It has been three years since the Alberta government released data related to the Family Support for Children with Disabilities (FSCD) or Persons […]