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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.
Policy Reform: Roles of State and Society
Recent Work
January 9, 2015
Québec Poverty Reduction
An overview of the Disabling Poverty/Enabling Citizenship project's research findings concerning Quebec's poverty reduction strategy. Read more.
December 11, 2014
Policy Reform Options for Community Organizations to Consider
Recommendations are presented for the federal government and provincial/territorial governments. As well, a series of recommendations speak to cooperation among governments in Canada. Read more.
December 9, 2014
Christine Elliott's Vision of a More Inclusive Canada
So, building an inclusive society, yes, at times it may seem daunting. At times it may seem a little bit too elusive. But when you think about how much we can accomplish together, the goal of an inclusive society doesn’t seem quite so daunting, doesn't seem quite so elusive. Our future will be one of full opportunity, of independence. Our future will be one in which individuals with disabilities and their families are empowered where the threat of chronic poverty can be eliminated. Our future will be an inclusive society. There's no doubt about that, because I know that working together we can achieve that. Read more.
More on Policy Reform: Roles of State and Society
November 27, 2014
Media Advisory
November 19, 2014
MPP Christine Elliott to Address Disabling Poverty/Enabling Citizenship Forum
September 17, 2014
Disabling Poverty, Enabling Citizenship: Recommendations for Positive Change
August 4, 2013
Disabling Poverty/Enabling Citizenship: income security reforms to advance dignity and inclusion in Canada
June 5, 2012
Rethinking Knowledge and Power: Reflections on the Disability Community in Canada (presentation)
June 5, 2012
Rethinking Knowledge and Power: Reflections on the Disability Community in Canada
End Exclusion supporters rally in support of an accessible and inclusive Canada.