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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.
Council
CCD refers to its Board of Directors as the National Council of Representatives. The National Council of Representatives elects the CCD Executive Committee. The current CCD Executive Committee includes:
- Chairperson: Heather Walkus
- 1st Vice Chairperson: Ingrid Palmer
- 2nd Vice Chairperson: Elliot Dewhirst
- Secretary: Ian Young
- Treasurer: Janet Hunt
- Member-at-Large on Executive:
The National Council of Representatives:
- Julia Lamb (DABC)
- Teresa Makarewich (VAD)
- Laurie Helgason (MLPD)
- Dianne Wintermute (CWDO)
- Michel Gaudet (COPHAN)
- Deborah Wood Salter (ResourceAbilities PEI)
- Shaun Clark (NSLEO)
- Nancy Reid (COD - NL)
- Denise McKee (NWTDC)
- Frank Folino (CAD)
- Leslie Yee (CCB)
- Maureen Haan (CCRW)
- Haneen Shat (DEEN)
- Janet Rodriguez (Disability Without Poverty)
- Rohini Peris (Environmental Health Association of Canada)
- Janet Hunt (National Coalition of People who use Guide and Service Dogs)
- Katja Newman (NEADS)
- Gregor Wolbring (TVAC)
- Rabia Khedr (RDC)
- Steve Mantis (Thunder Bay and District Injured Workers Support Group)
- Trishtina Godoy-Contois (Emerging Indigenous Leaders)
- Ian Young (Member-at-Large on Council)
- Carly Fox (Member-at-Large on Council)
- Ingrid Palmer (Member-at-Large on Council)
- Fran Odette (Member-at-Large on Council)
- ElliotDewhirst (Member-at-Large on Council)
- Noah Papatsie (Member-at-Large on Council)
See past Annual Reports
CCD shares its views on policy reform with Federal Ministers. For example, in January 2011, CCD, along with others in the disability community met with Minister Diane Finley and Minister Steven Fletcher. From left to right: Jim Derksen (CCD), Shelly Rattai, Rose Flaig, John Young, Minister Finley, Minister Fletcher, Ross Young and Ken Burford.