Sharon Russell understands firsthand that navigating an SCI in the family can be an overwhelming journey that simply can’t be faced alone. A year ago, her husband Bill sustained an SCI.
Voices
By: Spinal Cord Injury Ontario | Spring 2023
Looking Back to Look Forward
People with lived experience are the best source of information about day-to-day living and can also talk about the emotions associated with sustaining a spinal cord injury. That is the basis of our Peer Program.
Navigating SCI as a Family
“We don’t talk often enough about the impact that an SCI has on the family’s mental health as a whole...”
Filling the Toolbox
When you are struggling with poor mental health, there are many different tools you can use to help you.
Finding the Light on Dark Days
When you are passionate about helping others overcome challenges and barriers, and you work for an organization that is dedicated to the same, it is more than a job, it is a vocation.
Scooting Through Life
Access to the right equipment after sustaining a spinal cord injury can ease the challenges in daily living, Frank Walker understands this well from personal experience.
Adaptation: How Jake Thomas Combined his Love of Sport and Filmmaking
Jake Thomas is a passionate filmmaker from Ontario, breaking boundaries in action sports.
Through the Desert to the Water
Saleh spent most of his years between Egypt and Saudi Arabia, where accessibility was less than ideal and at times non-existent.
Drew Cumpson: Taking Advocacy to the Next Level
Meet Drew Cumpson, a passionate disability advocate who’s taking his efforts to the next level by running in the upcoming provincial election as the NDP candidate for Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston.
Meet Taylor Lindsay-Noel
Taylor is a bold, 28-Year-Old Entrepreneur and Tea Lover with a Passion for Pioneering Change
Meet Julie
Julie Sawchuk is an accessibility strategist, educator, speaker, best-selling author and SCIO Board member.
Plan Your Legacy
Planning our life’s legacy is both a responsibility and an incredible privilege – it allows us to decide how we will be remembered when we are gone.
Dedication
Dr. Mary Ann McColl and her late husband, Kirby Rowe are familiar names to many in our community.
Rolling Through Barriers: Inclusive Workplaces
This fall, as part of Spinal Cord Injury Ontario’s Rolling Through Barriers campaign, we hosted a virtual panel to tackle some of the challenges and opportunities that exist when it comes to finding meaningful and...
Keeping Goals in Sight – Summer 2021
Our Board of Directors are a dedicated and diverse group of individuals that give their time and expertise to our organization and our community. We continue to profile this generous group of individuals. This edition...
Rolling Through Barriers Champions
Pandemics betray our ideas around equality. They shine a light on the deep deficiencies and chronic ruptures that exist in society, often impacting the most vulnerable and marginalized in our communities. They urge us –...
A Path to All
A woman sits at her window looking out at the neighbourhood. She sees her neighbour across the street coming home from shopping. It used to be that she would have joined her friend on that shopping trip and then...
Rolling in Style
Designer Rachel Zoe says, “Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak”.
Keeping Goals in Sight – Spring 2021
Our Board of Directors are a dedicated and diverse group of individuals that give their time and expertise to our organization and our community. Their experience, viewpoint and foresight help to guide our organization...
