VAD Activities

In the last quarter, VAD did 445 phone calls and emails and 114 appointments.

In our tracking for the grant we received for programs and services, we have started tracking different demographics.

Here are the number of appointments that VAD had: developmental impairments was 4; mental impairments was 4; neurological impairments was 23; physical impairments was 11; sensory impairments was 1 and there were 65 other unknown impairments for client appointments.

7 Clients were in indigenous; 182 were male, 261 were female, and 38 identified with other. VAD helped 114 new clients, of which 92 waited less than a month for services, and 22 waited more than a month for services.

The most common referrals were to legal support, (43) housing (11) and income support (172).

Our website had a high of 3121 website sessions during the reporting period. Our newsletter, generates a large push to the website with 2181 users this quarter.

Social media coverage has continued to increase slowly with 2882 Facebook followers, 1248 Linkedin Connections, 1024 Instagram followers, and Twitter has restarted and is up to 78 since the switch to X.

We had 33 collaboration meetings, most before the accessibility coordinator position became vacant.

VAD has had 4 disability awareness presentations this quarter with 1099 participants. A great honour to the office was being invited to the special Olympic Unified Games on May 28 as the Honourary Chair opening the celebration, with over 900 participants from around the province in attendance.

VAD offers support in the following areas:

• AISH Application forms
• CPPD forms
• Edmonton Leisure Access Pass forms
• Personal Taxes (for Low Income Individuals with simple taxes)
• Disability Tax Credit forms
• Old Age Security forms
• Alberta Adult Health Benefit forms
• Referrals for RDSPs
• Accessibility Coordination
• Education & Awareness training and presentations.