Find Empowerment Through Connection
Welcome to British Columbia’s biggest learning event for intellectual and developmental disabilities, inclusion, and diversity. This year, we’re celebrating Inclusion BC’s 70th anniversary by partnering with Inclusion Canada and Aspire Richmond for a national event. This conference is a fantastic opportunity to connect, share, and get the latest information and resources on inclusion and diversity.
Everybody Belongs! is open to everyone, including people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, family members, advocates, educators, government representatives, volunteers, disability support workers, and allies of inclusion and diversity.
Richmond welcomes you!
Richmond is a unique island city in Metro Vancouver, on the traditional lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Indigenous Peoples. It offers all the perks of city living, plus beautiful parks, dike trails, and cultural heritage attractions like the Britannia Heritage Shipyards and the Gulf of Georgia Cannery.
Sponsor Everybody Belongs 2025
The conference will bring together people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, family members, advocates, educators, government representatives, volunteers, disability support professionals, and allies of inclusion and diversity. We will host over 40 unique workshops on advocacy and personal development, education, employment, Indigenous engagement, and community building.
Your brand will be presented to an active and engaged national audience of over 400 attendees from across the country.
We hope you will join us in a partnership—to help you achieve your goals and to work together as we build a world where everybody belongs.
Click the link below to read more and sponsor Everybody Belongs 2025!
Scholarships
We have a small number of scholarships each year, available to people experiencing financial barriers. Scholarship funding will be available to cover registration costs, and some funds will be available to cover travel and accommodation expenses.
Priority for the scholarships is given to self advocates, family members, people who have never been to the conference before and those who have not received a scholarship in the past 3 years.
Travelling to Richmond?
Richmond is home to the Vancouver International Airport on Sea Island, and BC Ferries offer service from Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands, and the Sunshine Coast. There are also several major freeways and the rapid-transit Canada Line into and around Richmond.
Get in Touch
Need help or have questions about our 2025 Everybody Belongs Learning Event?
Ariel Pavic
Special Events Coordinator
