Working with Steven Christianson and the March of Dimes, David Shannon and Mary Ann McColl developed recommendations to ensure equity for disabled citizens under The Fair Elections Act. The March of Dimes team secured an invitation for the CDPA to present at the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs for Bill C-23, the fair elections act. On March 31,… Read more »
Since 1975, there have been many policy events that have aimed towards a more inclusive Canada. The timeline below displays the federal disability policy events that have occurred in the last 4 decades. _______________________________________________________ Resources for the Timeline and links for more information: Canadian Human Rights Act UN speech about the evaluation of the International Year of Disabled Persons The… Read more »
Under the expert leadership of Spinal Cord Injury Canada, CDPA and CDPP have partnered with 28 community organizations to provide advice to the federal Minister of Sport and People with Disabilities, the Honourable Carla Qualtrough, on what to include in new national accessibility legislation. This 18-month project is part of an extensive public consultation on the issues and barriers facing… Read more »
The Equipment and Assistive Technology Initiative (EATI) was created in 2009. It is a program run by the British Columbia Personal Supports Network (BCPSN) and the Ministry of Social Development (MSD). For adults with disabilities in British Columbia who have an employment related goal, the program provides assistive technology (AT) (assistive equipment and devices). The purpose of this study was… Read more »
In 2013, CDPA was contracted by the Government of Canada to participate in the scheduled legislative review of the Registered Disability Savings Plan. We produced a paper that was embargoed until now. We share it now in the hope that it will still be useful. The literature, although difficult to summarize (due to varied methodologies), suggests that the lifetime cost… Read more »
An example of the Learning Collaborative methodology in action was the CDPA’s Health services team’s initiative to enhance accessibility in Ontario’s Family Health Teams. Working with our partners at Spinal Cord Injury Ontario, we reached out to 186 Family Health Teams and 25 Nurse Practitioner-led clinics to ensure that they were meeting their obligations under the Accessibility for Ontarians with… Read more »
The first edition of the of the policy scan was produced 5 years ago and has since been one of the most visited documents on the Canadian Disability Policy Alliance website. The second edition has been updated for the next phase of our work as an Alliance. It reminds us how much work needs to be done. Since there is… Read more »
After 27 years, New Brunswick has an Inclusive Education policy in place. Dr. Gordon Porter, president of Inclusive Education Canada, and Community Lead for CDPA’s Education team, applied the findings of his extensive research to assist the government of New Brunswick in its development. The policy was unveiled by the Education and Early Childhood Development Minister Jody Carr in late September, 2013…. Read more »
The policy environment is perfectly designed to produce the problems that people with disabilities experience This is a core assumption of the Canadian Disability Policy Alliance. In other words, if people with disabilities in Canada experience a problem in their day-to-day lives, it can almost always be tracked back to a gap in the policy environment (e.g. regulation, legislation,… Read more »
In disability studies, there are ongoing debates about the best ways to learn more about the experience and consequences of disability. At present, emancipatory research appears to be a favoured approach, yet it has many critics. It is grounded in principles such as: a focus on removing barriers, consumer-research collaborations during all stages of research, and an emphasis on the… Read more »
