General Contact

Executive Director

Ken Kaminski

Ken joined NDRC as a board member after retirement. He was selected to take over the executive director position about 10 years ago when it was decided that the former had to leave.

Hours

Monday-Friday
9am-12pm/12:30pm-3:30pm

Locate Us

Nanaimo Disabilty Resource Centre
#2 4166 Departure Bay Rd.
Nanaimo, BC, V9T 4B7
We are located on Departure Bay Road, behind Country Club, off of Norwell Drive, between the Subway and the Medicine Shoppe, beside the Diabetes Centre.

Our Program Administrators

Each program has one person in charge of it. If you’re looking for specific information about one of our programs the administrator is typically the best person to talk to.

Betty Penston

a cartoon pig and goose with disabilities and the words Parking Permit Program around it

Parking Permit Program

Betty has been our parking permit coordinator for longer than anyone (including her) can remember but best guess is 25 years. She started off as a computer school student (yes! We had computer school even back then!) then started to volunteer, moved into a part time position and then became NDRC’s first full time employee!

Allison Frame

Information and Resource Referral Program

Allison started in 2018 as the Computer School Coordinator. Over the years she has become passionate about the Information and Resource side of things, signing up for a course to learn as much as she could about the disability application process in this country and province. She now helps 80+ people a month, answering questions, finding resources in the community, and applying for CPPD or PWD or other application forms. She also has recently taken on advocacy work in the form of tenancy dispute resoloution.

Marie Little

Computer and Technology Program

Marie joined NDRC in 2019 part time while finishing her Bachelor of Business Administration. Originally fulfilling the role of 1 on 1 instructor and public relations assitant, she has since moved on to Computer School Administrator as well as resident IT tech, website developer and Newsletter Editor. “The Swiss Army Knife of NDRC” became NDRC’s second full time employee.