“Staying Safe in the Community when you have a Disability” offers strategies and tips for people with disabilities on safety planning. This resource was created due to a lack of tools available for folks in the disability community to keep themselves safe despite the rising incidences of violence in our communities against marginalized and vulnerable populations.
Interview – Food Access and Insecurity in Adults with Mobility Disabilities
You are invited to listen to CILT’s interview with Meagan Gillmore at AMI about Food Access and Insecurity in Adults with Mobility Disabilities, this Wednesday November 11 at 9:27am eastern on “Now with Dave Brown”. You can listen live at www.ami.ca/listenlive.
Online learning series on the proposed Canadian Disability Benefit
Achieving a Canadian Disability Benefit is an historic opportunity to end disability poverty. No other government in the world has made such a commitment. It will take a lot of work to turn that opportunity into a reality that is meaningful and inclusive. It will take widespread engagement by disabled people from every corner of the country. Including leadership from Quebec and those from racial minorities, the indigenous community, and those discriminated against because of age, race, colour, gender, and sexuality. It will also take widespread popular support from regular Canadians. Finally, it will take bold political decision making.
Register here to learn from Canadians with expertise and experience at system change.
Accessibility Resilience Program
The National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS) has put in place the Accessibility Resilience Program, with generous support from the Government of Canada’s Supports for Student Learning Program through a contribution agreement, to deliver $157,000 in student emergency financial assistance.
Click here for more information.
Take Urgent Action Against the Dangers of Electric Scooters in Toronto Zoom Meeting
CILT and CWDO Invite You to Join a 1-hour Live Email Writing Campaign to Toronto’s Mayor and Your City Councillor. Help stop the City of Toronto from allowing electric scooters (e-scooters), a serious new danger to the safety and accessibility of people with disabilities, seniors, and the public.
When: Thurs. Oct 1, 2020, 1:00-2:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApduGpqDsoE9KlJm1Tr8uHn8YjFGoakd1_
For more info, here is the flyer