Canadian Farmers With Disabilities Registry (CFWDR)

The Canadian Farmers with Disabilities Registry (CFWDR), is a registered charity supported by volunteers from across Canada.
CFWDR promotes education across Canada on farm safety and health issues and encourage and support farmers living with disabilities or illness.

CFWDR Vision
Our vision is to see every farm family in every rural community across Canada have access to education on farm safety and health  issues and to provide a support system for farmers living with a disability or illness.

CFWDR Support
After experiencing a disabling accident or illness, a farmer may experience:

· guilt for being injured or ill,
· concern for acceptance by family, friends and community,
· inability to communicate with family and friends

An essential part of your healing process is to be able to talk about your situation with someone who has survived a similar experience and who understands your feelings.

· We’re here to listen,
· We care about you and your family.

CFWDR Activities
· Provide volunteer support and resources to help farmers and their families deal with a disability or illness.
· Assist provincial organizations in developing and delivering farmer safety and health support programs to farmers and their families.
· Network with other like-minded health organizations to improve services to farmers.
· Provide a library of videos, booklets, designs for modified farm machinery, and other relevant resources for use by disabled farmers.

With the generous funding of the FCC (Farmer Credit Canada), CFWDR has completed an information manual for their peer-support counsellors.  This 62-page manual outlines and itemizes conditions by which peer-support counselling is delivered by our volunteers. This includes training, supervision and evaluation of peer-support counsellors. The manual provided examples on various key skills for peer-support counsellors within CFWDR.  Copies are available in French and English. Please contact the Chair of the organization by emailing to info@fwdcanada.com

Empower and Enable
The purpose of the CFWDR program is to give farmers/ranchers and their families the opportunity to choose whether or not to  continue farming with a disability or illness.

We can provide important resources to farmers living with a disability or illness. Together with our provincial representatives and assisted by the financial support provided by our sponsors and individual donators, we can bring farmer safety and health programs to all rural communities across Canada.  
For more information about the CFWDR or to contact your Provincial Representative go to website page Contact Us.

Become a Member
There two ways to join CFWDR. If you are a farmer, and you or one of your immediate family members has a disability or illness you can register as a “Member”

If you are not a farmer but have a personal or professional interest in farm safety and supporting farmers living with disabilities or illness, then you can register as an “Associate Member”.

To register as a member 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. All information will be kept confidential.

CFWDR Volunteer
As volunteer you can be involved in your local farmer safety and health programs. Go to our website for information on how to contact your Provincial Representative or any one of our Board of Directors.

As member/volunteer of CFWDR you will have opportunity to meet and interact with people from a variety of backgrounds with similar goals.

"Farming is our way of Life"