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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.
CCD Chairperson's Update - August 2012
CCD Participates in HRSDC Meeting
On 17 August 2012, Laurie Beachell participated in a meeting called by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC), where the Department explained its plan to transform the Social Development Partnerships Program (SDPP). SDPP funds 18 national disability organizations. Over two years, HRSDC is transforming SDPP. By the end of the transformation, the program will not provide grants to the 18 national organizations that have had a long-term relationship with the Government of Canada and the program will receive project proposals from Canadian organizations addressing disability issues. CCD is one of the 18 organizations affected by this change, as are the majority of CCD’s provincial member organizations.
Project Proposals Submitted
Prior to announcing the changes to SDPP, HRSDC put out a call for project proposals and CCD responding by submitting two proposals. CCD is seeking funding to work on employment issues and to update a paper written by Orville Endicott on safeguards that could protect vulnerable people if assisted suicide was to be legalized in Canada.
Discussions with Provincial Members
Via teleconference, Laurie Beachell met with the provincial coordinators of CCD’s provincial member groups to discuss the changes that will alter CCD and its provincial members' relationship with their major funder, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada.