"In separateness lies the world's great misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength."
- Buddha

Emma Cochrane, VP Strategy & Operations, Tyze
Abilities Magazine
Thu, 03/26/2009
It’s 2009 and technology and social media are around every corner. As we read the news and talk to our friends, it seems as though everyone is sending email, checking Facebook, watching videos on YouTube and even blogging. Well, not everyone. While the majority of Canadians (a whopping 70%) are using Facebook, and 58% of Canadians are blogging, many of our citizens are still not online, never mind using the latest and greatest social media tools.

Tyze is an online social networking tool that provides disability-serving organizations with both the technology and support required to effectively place a person who is vulnerable to being isolated, at the centre of a caring social network of family, friends and caregivers. By working with private health care providers, government departments, health authorities, and corporations, Tyze can provide thousands of people with access to a transformative model of networking that focuses on contribution and ability rather than needs and disability.

We’re thrilled to now be delivering Tyze’s secure, personal, online networks to forward-thinking organizations who want to use Tyze to collaborate and stay in touch with the people they serve and the friends and families that support them.

One of the first organizations to purchase Tyze was BACI (the Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion), an organization that has dedicated over 50 years to providing innovative supports and services to children, youth and adults with developmental disabilities and their families. BACI continues to seek out opportunities to increase the social and economic inclusion of individuals with disabilities, and support them in becoming fully participating members of the community.