Goals - Canadian Deafblind Association National

1 – Promote deafblindness as a “unique” disability

Encourage and support Chapters that provide direct services to meet CDBA standards including but not limited to:
- Independent Living
- Lifelong Intervention
- Summer Intervention

Encourage and support government and non-government agencies which provide services, such as educational, recreational, medical, and supported living

Encourage and support Research proposals and projects:
- Medical: Rubella Prevention, Late onset medical symptoms, Cytomegalovirus (CMV), CHARGE Syndrome, Usher Syndrome, Acquired causes
- Etiology and Recording of Information Impact of Service Provision for more than 20 years
- Determine the Socio-Economic Impact of deafblindness on: The individual who is deafblind, Families Educational Systems, Communities, Employment, Extended Care facilities, Government participation

Encourage and support the development of a national Coordination Centre to maintain and disperse information from a Data Bank, Registry, and to be a contact base for networking.

Individual and Family support
- National (Emergency) Intervention Fund
- Family Weekends
- Workshops

Networking and information flow
- use of Internet, develop a CDBA home page
- communication by newsletters, other publications

Partner with foundations, government and non-government agencies on major initiatives such as research, awareness and service provisions

Assessment of CDBA’s Internal Counterparts on topics such as:
- Formation of the organization
- Sources of funding
- Prevention programs
- Overview of service delivery.