Access For Sight Impaired Consumers
Support Groups
Following is a list of blindness-related support groups, catagorized by the area, municipality or city within the Metro Vancouver area of British Columbia where they meet or assemble. In many cases, group leaders are individual volunteers who, themselves are blind or sight-impaired. Many do not have e-mail addresses where you may contact them so we have supplied their telephone numbers as a point of contact. Should you find the telephone number is outdated, please contact us
and we will be pleased to determine the updated contact information for any particular group.
We invite you to submit the name and contact information for any other blindness related support group(s) which offers a "helping hand" to others. We will catagorize further submissions by municipality/city and province so that visitors to this page can quickly and easily find an appropriate group in their locale.
Abbotsford
- Abbotsford Blind and Visually Impaired Society - Contact Bruce at 604 852-1720 or contact Bill via e-mail for further information.
Chilliwack
- Chilliwack White Cane Club - Contact Ann at 604 795-7230.
Coquitlam
- Coquitlam White Cane Club - Contact Elaine at 604 942-4680.
Delta
- Delta Macular Degeneration Support Group - Contact Kit at 604 584-8679.
- Delta (South) Macular Degeneration Support Group - Contact Matt at 604 946-9934.
Langley
- Langley Visually Impaired Group - Contact Mildred at 604 574-9771.
Maple Ridge
- Maple Ridge / Pitt Meadows White Cane Club - Contact Ferdi at 604 466-0694.
New Westminster
- New Westminster Low Vision Group - Contact Helen at 604 522-2249.
- New Westminster White Cane Club - Contact Eugene at 604 525-9383.
North Vancouver
- North Vancouver White Cane Club - Contact Joan at 604 985-2293.
Sechelt
- Sechelt (Sunshine Coast) White Cane Club - Contact Florence at 604 885-3187.
Surrey
- North Surrey / Fraser Valley Visually Impaired Society - Contact Joe at 604 951-4349.
Vancouver
- Lower Mainland Blind Parent's Support Group - Contact contact Lovette via e-mail for further information regarding this group which provides support for blind parents of all aged children.
- Vancouver Macular Degeneration Group - Contact Luella at604 431-2161 or contact Luella via e-mail for further information regarding this group which meets the third Wednesday morning of each month at CNIB's Vancouver Service Centre.
- Vancouver Parent's Support Group - Contact Mary-Kay Kennedy (in care of CNIB's Vancouver Service Centre) at 604 431-2121 or contact Mary-Kay via e-mail for further information regarding this support group for parents of children who are blind or sight-impaired.
- Vancouver White Cane Club - Contact Lance at 604 874-2562.
- Vancouver Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) Support Group - Contact Brad at 604 431-2151 or contact Brad via e-mail for further information regarding this group which meets at CNIB's Vancouver Service Centre.>
West Vancouver
- West Vancouver Visually Impaired Persons Support Group - Contact Maureen at 604 922-1179.
White Rock
- South Surrey / White Rock Macular Degeneration Support Group - Contact Eileen at 604 535-3200.
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