Canadian Farmers With Disabilities Registry (CFWDR)

The Canadian Farmers with Disabilities Registry (CFWDR), formed in January 1997, is a national organization that promotes farm safety and provides resources and encouragement to disabled farmers and their families. The provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island, Quebec and Saskatchewan are represented.

Establishing where and how farm accidents happen and the types of disabilities sustained, provide meaningful statistics for the development of future farm safety initiatives and identifies support programs required for those with disabilities. Through a united voice, these concerns can be approached collectively.

Types of disabilities range from disease, loss of sight or hearing, to amputations and paralysis. If you are a farmer, family member or farm worker with any type of permanent injury, illness, or disability, and would like to register on this confidential list, please complete and submit one of the "Yes! Count Me In!" forms on this web site. You can use the Printable, or the On-Line version. Alternatively, you can contact CFWDR directly, at dlangille@nsfa-fane.ca . Names will not be provided to anyone else without the written consent of the individual.

We are looking for provincial volunteers.
Please contact Carl Palmer, chairman, for more information call (902) 847-9420 or email carl.palmer@ns.sympatico.ca .

By working in conjunction with Farm Credit Canada (FCC), the Registry was instrumental in the development of different insurance options provided by FCC.

Production of a video, "It's Not Worth the Cost", also occurred.

With the generous funding of the FCC (Farmer Credit Canada), the CFWDR has commissioned the completion of an information manual for their peer-support counsellors.  This 62-page manual outlines the roots of the peer-support movement, as well as the CFWDR.  It itemizes the structural conditions by which peer-support counselling should be delivered (including training priorities, and needs for supervision and evaluation of peer-support counsellors), and describes, with examples, various key skills for peer-support counsellors within the CFWDR.  Copies in both official languages (English and French) are available to members of the CFWDR by contacting the President  Carl Palmer and his wife Evelyn Palmer (see _Contact Us_ on the website).

Canadian Farmers With Disabilities Registry (CFWDR) supports disabled people in pursuing farming as a viable and realistic occupational goal and lifestyle.

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