current projects and on-going initiatives

L'intégration communautaire

L'initiative d'intégration communautaire est us partenariat entre l'Association canadienne pour l'intégration communautaire, Des Personnes d'abord du Canada et les Associations provinciales/territoriales pour l'intégration communautaire, moyennant le soutien financier du gouvernement du Canada. L'initiative se propose d'aider les communautés à devenir plus accueillantes et plus aptes à donner du soutien aux personnes ayant une déficience intellectuelle; à devenir des lieux où tous les gens ont leur place. Depuis son lancement, le projet a amélioré la vie de milliers de personnes et de familles au sein de communautés diverses partout au pays.

Pour de plus ample renseignements veuillez visiter CommunityInclusion.ca ou InstitutionWatch.ca

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Engaging on International Issues and Development

CACL, with the support of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) is raising awareness and engaging with Canadians and Canadian-based development NGOs on the need to combat global poverty and exclusion of people with intellectual disabilties, and to ensure that international development efforts - including poverty reduction strategies and the Millennium Development Goals - are inclusive of people with intellectual disabilities.

CACL is inviting Canadians to join us and to engage and connect with our broader Federation - local, provincial/territorial, national and international - and development NGOs on the issue of disability and development.

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2007 Respite Guide

The Canadian Association for Community Living is proud to be one of eleven projects of the Care Renewal Initiative of the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation. CACL gratefully acknowledges the generous financial contribution of the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation to this Initiative.

The guide, entitled Real Respite for the Whole Family - An Advocacy Resource Guide for Individuals with an intellectual disability and their families offers information, strategies, checklists, contacts, resources, and questions for family members who are providing unpaid care to children, youth and adults with disabilities.

This resource outlines a guide for conducting a workshop for family members, providing information that will help them plan towards getting the type of flexible and individualized respite supports that they need, by negotiating and working with community-based support systems.

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End Exclusion 2007 - A Call To Action

End Exclusion 2007 was a huge success - bringing almost 400 representatives of disability organizations across Canada to Ottawa, to release a joint National Action Plan on Disability, to walk together to Parliament hill raising awareness for our cause, and to hear from three federal ministers about commitments to disability rights.

For further details on the event please visit www.EndExclusion.ca

UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

In December 2001, the United Nations established an Ad Hoc Committee "to consider proposals for a comprehensive and integral international convention to promote and protect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities, based on the holistic approach in the work done in the fields of social development, human rights and non-discrimination and taking into account the recommendations of the Commission on Human Rights and the Commission for Social Development."

Since that time, CACL has been actively involved in the development of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Ad Hoc Committee, at its Eighth session in New York in August 2006, adopted a draft UN Convention. CACL has worked collaboratively domestically and internationally with NGOs and States Parties on the development of a strong and progressive Convention.

CACL has contributed to several critical successes and accomplishments throughout the Convention development process. Including brokering support for a distinct article on children in the Convention, facilitating IDC consensus on the need to recognize the role of families in the Convention and support for a preambular statement on families, the recognition of the right of all people with disabilities to live in the community and the recognition of supported decision-making as a legitimate means for expressing legal capacity.

The Convention is currently being finalized and will be brought before the General Assembly for formal adoption. States will then begin the process of signing and ratifying the Convention.

Community Research and Knowledge Capacity

The Canadian Association for Community Living (CACL) and the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) are co-sponsoring a review to consider options for a community-based research and information function in collaboration with the Canadian Association of Independent Living Centres and the Neil Squire Society.

The purpose is to develop options that will best enable the disability community and its allied networks to access and share information, and to mobilize knowledge development and use across society, to assist in advancing full citizenship, inclusion and human rights of people with disabilities.

The review will be led by a Task Force, chaired by Dr. Michael Prince of the University of Victoria, with representation from the disability community, academic community, and broader social development sector. The Task Force is supported through a facilitation team from the Centre for Research and Education in Human Services. The team will collect background information, facilitate consultations, carry out interviews and draft reports.

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Community Safety Audit

The Community Safety Audit Manual The Right To Be Safe - Addressing Violence against People with Intellectual Disabilities is a resource that provides an overview of the issue of violence against people with intellectual disabilities and it offers a practical step by step method that will enable key community organizations to examine themselves internally as well as directing them to analyze how they link and work with other community organizations and support systems. The intention of this guide is to alert communities to the issue of violence against people with intellectual disabilities and offer a particular type of approach for addressing this violence.

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