BCPF Panel Presentation: Our Experiences with Filing Complaints

Do you want to learn from people with experience fighting for their rights in an ableist society? Do you want to hear from leaders of advocacy groups and award-winning change-makers in BC? Join our upcoming panel presentation!

Our panelists will share real stories about human rights and filing complaints.

You’ll learn about:

• How to have a clear message when filing complaints

• Experiences filing complaints with City Hall, CLBC, the BC Human Rights Tribunal

• Making media aware of unaddressed or unsolved complaints

This event is a great chance for community members, service providers, and allies to step back and learn directly from people with lived experience.

This event is a great chance for self-advocates to learn from other people's experiences and to feel more confident when making complaints.

Our panel members will each share lessons and experiences. And then we'll have some time for a few questions and discussion at the end. 

*An ASL interpreter is scheduled to attend the event – please help us share the news!

Thursday, September 4, 2025 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm (Pacific Time) on Zoom.

Panel members include:

• Charlene Barney

• Jo-Anne Gauthier

• Nicole Jinn

• Dan Sleath

• Margaux Wosk

  
  

We hope you can make it!

This presentation is for: 

• BCPF Members, Self-Advocates, and self-advocacy group members

• Allies and supporters of people with intellectual or developmental disabilities

• Anyone who wants to learn more about human rights and the self-advocacy movement in BC

Hosted by BC People First Society — Self-Advocates supporting Self-Advocates!

Please register by September 1st. We will send an email reminder with the Zoom login information to all registered attendees two days before the event on September 2nd. (Check your promotions/junk folder if you don't find it in your inbox this day or email us at hello@bcpeoplefirst.com to get the login link).