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Empower U: Learn to Access Your Disability Rights Training on Canadian Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and its Optional Protocol (OP) training aims to increase awareness of how to address discrimination using more familiar Canadian human rights laws such as Human Rights Codes and the newer international Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). This is training for persons with disabilities by persons with disabilities. The training is part of a project funded by Employment and Social Development Canada and implemented by the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) in collaboration with Canadian Multicultural Disability Centre Inc. (CMDCI), Citizens With Disabilities – Ontario (CWDO), Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities (MLPD) and National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS). Read more.
Home Supports
Home Supports are personal, non-therapeutic assistance provided to people with disabilities outside of institutions. They assist people with disabilities in many aspects of their lives, including at home, in the workplace, and in the community to meet personal, employment, education, health and social goals. Home supports include assistance with washing, dressing, meal preparation, homemaking, shopping, paperwork, attending community events, etc. Home supports are a component of disability-related support.
Public policy on home supports is very important. Although home supports are delivered by the provinces, home support policy is of national significance. With the aging of the population, home supports will be of critical importance to many Canadians.
Recent Work
December 2, 2009
Letter to the Editor Re: Advantage Disabled?
CCD is hopeful that the attention being focused on the benefits of technical aids in the area of elite sports translates into increased support for public programs providing technical aids to Canadians with disabilities. Read more.
February 1, 2005
A National Snapshot of Home Support from the Consumer Perspective
End Exclusion supporters rally in support of an accessible and inclusive Canada.