Financial Support For Children with Support Needs
Child Services, Financial, and Medical Equipment
Provided by CKNW Kids’ Fund
Provides financial support to vulnerable kids with physical, mental and social challenges living in BC communities.
CKNW Kids' Fund grants millions of dollars to hundreds of thousands of children with support needs, and the organizations that support them, through aid such as:
- Therapies: Therapies including speech, occupational, physio, music, equine and others may be funded up to a maximum of $2,500.00. Requests will be accepted for three consecutive years with an updated application required each year. Assessments and transportation costs are excluded.
- Tutoring: Tutoring subsidies may be provided up to a maximum of $1800.00. Requests will be accepted for three consecutive years with an updated application required each year.
- Bursaries: Bursaries for students with specific needs attending independent provincially approved special education facilities may be provided. The individuals may apply with supporting documentation by the attending school. A current limit of $1,500.00 per individual child (per school year) for up to 3 consecutive school years will be considered.
- Equipment: The maximum funding that may be made available annually for any one individual child is $5,000.00, subject to consideration of special circumstances or hardship. Cost sharing or partnerships with other organizations will be encouraged. Typical types of equipment are items that allow and support life, mobility, communication or independence. Equipment funded by the CKNW Kids' Fund becomes the property of the family for whom it was purchased. When the family no longer requires the equipment, it is requested that the item(s) be made available to others with similar needs.
CKNW Kids' Fund accepts grant applications from both individual families and organizations in BC that are focused on children’s programs and special projects. To apply for a grant, click here, and mail the application with supporting documents to the organization (instructions contained within application).
Qualifications for Funding - Children whose needs/circumstances have been assessed and recognized by a medical/health/social/educational professional and for whom an application is supported by a brief statement indicating the problem/condition and recommendations by such assessors.
- Children who don’t qualify for existing services provided by government-sponsored funding, or are on an extensive waiting list, have exhausted other sources of financial assistance, or who do not meet all of the government criteria.
- Children who are financially at risk. This definition does not exclude those children who have medical/social/educational impacts brought about by poverty.
604-331-2781
Public email: cknwkidsfund@corusent.com
Website: https://www.cknwkidsfund.com/
Cost: No cost
Referral options:
- Parent / Guardian referral
Availability
Service area: Province-wide + show cities
Service Types Provided
Child Services
Financial
Medical Equipment
Ways to Access
- Includes the provision of funding
The listing of this service in Pathways is not a recommendation or endorsement by Pathways.