Organizations providing disability benefits navigation services
The Disability Benefit Navigation (DBN) program funds not-for-profit community-based organizations to help address long-standing barriers related to awareness and take-up of benefits for persons with disabilities, including the Disability Tax Credit, the Canada Disability Benefit, and other provincial and territorial disability benefits.
Funded organizations provide accessible, individualized disability benefits navigation support on a one-to-one basis.
The following is a list of organizations funded by ESDC to provide direct disability benefit navigation services to persons with disabilities and their families and caregivers. Contact information and details on how to access these services are available through the links provided, which will be updated periodically.
- Canadian Association of the Deaf
- Inclusion Canada
- Indigenous Disability Canada / British Columbia Aboriginal Networks on Disability Society
- Mood Disorders Society of Canada
- Plan Institute
- Vision Loss Rehabilitation Canada
- NWT Disabilities Council
- Nunavummi Disabilities Makinnasuaqtiit Society
- Disability Alliance British Columbia / Disability Alliance Canada
- Voice of Albertans with Disabilities
- Finautonome
- ResourceAbilities
- Independent Living Nova Scotia
Contact details:
Canadian Association of the Deaf
- Region: National
- Language: English and French
- Email: info@cad-asc.ca
- Phone number: 1-613-518-2944
- Website: Canadian Association of the Deaf
Inclusion Canada
- Region: National
- Language: English and French
- Email: inform@inclusioncanada.ca
- Phone number: 1-855-661-9611 (Toll-Free)
- Website: Inclusion Canada
Indigenous Disability Canada (IDC) / British Columbia Aboriginal Networks on Disability Society (BCANDS)
- Region: National
- Language: English and French
- Email: ninsadmin@bcands.bc.ca
- Phone number:
- Main/General British Columbia: 1-250-381-7303
- National Coordinator Ottawa:1-613-899-6893
- Website: Indigenous Disability Canada/BCANDS
Mood Disorders Society of Canada
- Region: National
- Language: English and French
- Email: info@BenefitsPathway.ca
- Phone number: 1-888-975-9990
- Website: Mood Disorders Society of Canada
Plan Institute
- Region: National
- Language: English, French, or interpretive services available in any language of choice
- Email: helpline@planinstitute.ca
- Phone number: 1-844-311-7526
- Website: Plan Institute
- Accessibility menu provided for each webpage
Vision Loss Rehabilitation Canada
- Region: National
- Language: English and French
- Email: Contact Us
- Phone Number: 1-844-887-8572
- Website: Vision Loss Rehabilitation Canada
NWT Disabilities Council
- Region: Northwest Territories
- Language: English
- Email:
- General: admin@nwtdc.net
- Navigation services: info@nwtdc.net
- Phone number:
- Phone: 1-867-873-8230
- Toll-free: 1-800-491-8885
- Fax: 1-867-873-4124
- Website: NWT Disabilities Council
Nunavummi Disabilities Makinnasuaqtiit Society
- Region: Nunavut and the North
- Language: English, French and Inuktut
- Email: connect@nuability.ca
- Phone number: 1-867-979-2228 or 1-877-354-0916 (Toll-free)
- Website: Nunavummi Disabilities Makinnasuaqtiit Society
Disability Alliance British Columbia / Disability Alliance Canada
- Region: National
- Language: English, French or language of choice
- Email:
- British Columbia: dtc@dabc.ca
- All locations excluding British Columbia: info@disabilityalliancecanada.ca
- Website:
Voice of Albertans with Disabilities
- Region: Alberta
- Language: English
- Email: vad@vadsociety.ca
- Phone number: 1-780-488-9088
- Website: Voice of Albertans with Disabilities
Finautonome
- Region: Quebec, Francophones nationally
- Language: French
- Email: aide@finautonome.org
- Phone number: 1-833-866-7334
- Website: Finautonome
ResourceAbilities
- Region: Prince Edward Island
- Language: English and French
- Email:
- General: admin@resourceabilities.ca
- Kings County: montague@resourceabilities.ca
- Queens County: amerah@resourceabilities.ca and kerry@resourceabilities.ca
- Prince County: summerside@resourceabilities.ca
- Website: ResourceAbilities
- Phone number:
- Kings County Office – Montague: 1-902-838-5879
- Queens County Office – Charlottetown: 1-902-892-9149 Ext: 222 and 1-902-902-9149 Ext: 224
- Prince County – Summerside: 1-902-436-1296
Independent Living Nova Scotia
- Region: Atlantic
- Language: English and French
- Email: dtc@ilns.ca
- Phone number: 1-902-453-0004 Option 4 or 1-800-725-6585
- Website: Independent Living Nova Scotia
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