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Council for Canadians with Disabilities (CCD), formerly known as the Coalition of Provincial Organizations of the Handicapped (COPOH), was created by people with disabilities in 1976 to provide support for all people with disabilities who seek the opportunity to go to school, work, volunteer, have a family, and participate in recreational, sport and cultural activities.
This category is for disability organizations based in Canada. Subcategories. ... Canadian Paralympic Committee; Council for Canadians with Disabilities; D.
The end of the 1970s marked the establishment of the Coalition of Provincial Organizations of the Handicapped (now the Council for Canadians with Disabilities [CCD]), a prominent advocacy group. This organization stood out from others in that it was composed mainly of persons with disabilities themselves, rather than allies or professionals.
It was a subsidiary of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs—the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy—in 2007 and was disbanded in 2011. [8] The JCC was the main advocacy group for the Jewish community in Canada from 1919 to 2011, advocating for human rights , social equality , Canadian immigration reform and civil and ...
The Canadian Council on Learning works to provide up-to-date information to Canadian learners, educators, employers and policy-makers regarding effective approaches to lifelong learning in classrooms, homes, workplace and community. The Council performs research on critical learning themes such as Aboriginal or Adult Learning and establishes ...
Prince has been a board member of a community health clinic, legal aid society, hospital society and hospital foundation, provincial association for community living, the advisory committee on children and youth with special needs to the Representative of Children and Youth for British Columbia, [5] and the social policy committee of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities.
In the mid-2000s, Shannon was the attorney for intervener for the Canadian Association of Independent Living Centres in the national case of the Council of Canadians With Disabilities v. VIA Rail Canada Inc. [ 40 ] The case centered on whether VIA Rail needed to make the 139 rail cars it purchased in December 2000 fully accessible for the disabled.
Indigenous Disability Awareness Month [5] was created by Indigenous Disability Canada / British Columbia Aboriginal Network on Disability Society (IDC/BCANDS) in 2015, to raise awareness of the significant contributions that Indigenous peoples (First Nation, Inuit, Métis) living with disabilities bring to communities across Canada.