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July is Disability Pride Month! 🌟 It's the perfect time to reflect on how we can secure the future for our loved ones with disabilities. Estate planning plays a crucial role in ensuring their needs are met without compromising their eligibility for government benefits. Let’s take steps to protect and empower our family members. 👉 Share this post to spread awareness and connect with estate planning resources tailored for families with disabled members. #DisabilityPrideMonth #EstatePlanning #SpecialNeedsTrust

July is Disability Pride Month! 🌟 It's the perfect time to reflect on how we can secure the future for our loved ones with disabilities. Estate planning plays a crucial role in ensuring their needs are met without compromising their eligibility for government benefits. Let’s take steps to protect and empower our family members. 👉 Share this post to spread awareness and connect with estate planning resources tailored for families with disabled members. #DisabilityPrideMonth #EstatePlanning #SpecialNeedsTrust

Imagine a world where everything is easily accessible. What would that be like? Empowering children and adults to imagine new possibilities for the world around them is at the heart of We Move Together, a children's picture book co-created by Anne McGuire, program director of the Critical Studies in Equity & Solidarity program, along with colleagues Kelly Fritsch, and Eduardo Trejos. The book introduces readers to Disability Justice (DJ), as well as disability culture, community, and social justice, using colourful illustrations and minimal text. Read more about how "We Move Together" is opening up meaningful conversations on disability and how it is integral to relationships and communities: https://uoft.me/9XJ #IDPD

Advisors: One in four U.S. adults lives with a disability. How are you serving these clients? Get insight from a disability inclusion specialist. http://m.ct-inv.us/4dbZgRB #DisabilityPrideMonth #DisabilityInclusion

The future of disability support brings challenges and opportunities, from the need to boost profit margins to demands for a more person-centered and community-orientated approach. The future of disability support is a positive one. It is more empowering, intersectional, and comprehensive. We will see more people with disability receive the support they need as their voices and experiences are listened to! But, it requires us to continue to advocate and have our voices heard "MAYDAY MAYDAY DON'T DELAY". Advocate to stop the rate increase delay. The presence of as many people as possible is critical to having our voices heard. #APositiveFuturefortheDisabilitySupport

Totally unsurprising. Just look at the Convention of Rights of Persons with Disabilities and how inadequate it is at protecting disability rights. For example, it does not mention the word "special education" even once and promotes mainstreaming at all costs in the name of "inclusion", despite that putting all disabled students in mainstreaming classes is a bad idea in which many disabled children will fail to learn crucial life skills with zero possibilities of academic achievement. At this point, mainstreaming looks more like forced assimilation, but a destined-to-fail one.

Day Three Challenge 🌟 🌍🤝 Disability Pride is about celebrating our unique experiences and perspectives. Let's take a moment to listen, learn, and share. 💬 Challenge: Think about how Disability Pride can vary by the individual. Share a story, quote, or insight from someone whose perspective on disability has made an impact on you and your thinking. 📸 Post a picture or video that represents diverse voices and experiences within the disability community. It could be a book, a piece of art, an interview, or anything that resonates with you. 🗣️ Tag someone who has shared their unique perspective on disability and let them know how their voice has impacted you. #DisabilityPrideMonth #DiversePerspectives #InclusionMatters #ListenAndLearn

Last week marked the unveiling of the Royal Commission's extensive investigation into Violence, Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of People with Disability. 🔍 Key Insights: • A total of 222 pivotal recommendations were presented. • The comprehensive report spans 12 detailed volumes. • For a concise summary, explore 'A Quick Guide to the Final Report', tailored for everyone - be it individuals with disabilities, caregivers, advocates, or service providers. Special Highlight: The Royal Commission also launched 'Listening to First Nations People with Disability', a brochure amplifying the distinctive challenges and voices of our First Nations community members with disabilities. 📄 Dive into the complete report here: https://lnkd.in/gHPEuZNJ Support Is Available: If you or someone you know with a disability has endured harm, mistreatment, or exploitation, know that you're not alone. Blue Knot Foundation offers complimentary specialised counselling. 

Thank you Peter Torres Fremlin of Disability Debrief for being one of the first in the global disability community to publicly share what has been happening at the International Disability Alliance . This opening is so needed. Yes, we need to talk! In addition to the questions you raised, I have more: - How can IDA be rebuilt so that non-elite persons with disabilities have not only a voice, but a leadership role? It is telling that the new Board is run mainly by men from powerful positions and the only woman is "secretary". - How can other OPDs and OPD networks on the ground in the Global South gain working relationships with large donors and also, partner with them to run key spaces like the Global Disability Summit or Global Action on Disability Network (GLAD)? This would provide innovations informed by local actors (the majority of people with disabilities) and prevent a monopolization of all spaces. - How do we truly live the principles of "nothing about us without us" and the participation mandate of the CRPD? Maybe work of the participatory philanthropy community (which was inspired by the motto of the disability movement) should be tapped. Check out the Advancing Participation in Philanthropy Tool at https://lnkd.in/gbDvKrmN, which could provide a useful exercise in rebuilding IDA. Let's expand this conversation. Without transparency, new efforts will also fail. Sida Department for International Development (DFID)

This UK Disability History Month, the theme is Disability, Childhood and Youth. The focus will be placed upon the past, present and future of young disabled people with a view to learning what is needed to reduce the stigma and bullying many of them face. Find out more here: https://ukdhm.org/ #UKDisabilityHistoryMonth2023 #UKDHM2023