SCI Sask Parascope – Spring 2025

Click here to read our Spring 2025 Parascope. Learn more about how you can receive your own copy mailed to you by emailing: sciinfo@scisask.ca

Mavis shares her story about SCI Sask

Mavis Bristow has been a client of SCI Sask for many years, she also has been the organization dedicated contributor and supporter. She reminiscing her experience with SCI Sask through the following story: “After my car accident in 1968 the first organization to contact me was the Paraplegic Association, as SCI was known then. The…

Lisa finding creative ways to make a fulfilling life

Lisa, a client of SCI Sask and a Peer Mentor, shares their thoughts on SCI Sask: “Donating to SCI SK goes a long way because many of the members who receive help and support from the programs eventually become the volunteers who give back to the programs and the community. We’re like a quiet network…

Christina Martens-Funk tribute to SCI Sask

Christina is a Chartered Professional Accountant, with experience in collaborative leadership, financial management, and governance strategy. Christina currently works as Chief Executive Officer of Inclusion Saskatchewan. She is passionate about social justice and creating a supportive and equitable community for disabled people. Christina shares her sentiment and thoughts of Spinal Cord Injury Saskatchewan at our…

Paul Gustafson reflection on Peer Mentorship Network journey

Paul has been a long standing member of SCI Sask, an employee, and a huge supporter of the organisation and the disability community in general. He started out his career working at the Canadian Paraplegic Association [CPA], which is now Spinal Cord Injury Saskatchewan, and has worked as a rehab counselor and education & employment…

Peer Connection with Lisa and Kyra

SCI Sask Peer Mentor, Lisa, decided a few years ago that she wanted to give back to a community that had supported her through many life changes. She sustained a SCI as a teenager, and contributes a good portion of her resiliency and acceptance to peers, both formal and informal, that she has encountered along…

Life Journey of Darwin Bender

Darwin Bender’s life was deeply rooted in the agricultural landscape. He grew up on a family farm where they tended to cattle, cultivated grains and raised pigs. He enjoyed an active lifestyle in this rural setting. However, an unforeseen accident abruptly transformed his world. As a passenger in a truck driven by a drunk driver,…

Orrie Babichuk: Life Journey to Career in Agriculture

I was 19 when I crashed my snowmobile on New Year’s Eve 2018 and became paralyzed around level T 5/6 and down. The next year after my injury I was pretty lost and never knew what I wanted to do in life long term because my previous job was very physical and not an option…

2020 LA Charities Scholarship Recipient – Selali Tettevi

I am honored and excited to be a recipient of the 2020 LA Charities Post-Secondary Education Scholarship and I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you and the Scholarship Committee for your support of students who need it most. This award will help me focus on earning credentials in Leadership and Innovation, opening…