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IRIS

Giving communities the tools to prevent and respond to elder abuse

Tue, 2012-07-03 - CACL Web Editor - Equality Rights, Family Supports, Global Inclusion, Safe and Inclusive Communities, CACL, DAWN, Elder Abuse, IRIS

 

On June 15th, World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, the Canadian Association for Community Living announced a project to address the issue of abuse against older people with disabilities and Deaf people, that will have a national reach and a neighbourhood-level impact.

New from IRIS: The Employment Situation of People with Intellectual Disabilities.

Fri, 2011-06-10 - CACL Web Editor - Disability Supports, Employment Equality, Equality Rights, Eradicate Poverty, demographic, employment, Intellectual Disabilities, IRIS

New from IRIS: The Employment Situation of People with Intellectual Disabilities
A demographic snapshot of the employment situation of people with intellectual disabilities
 
A recently released report by Cameron Crawford of  the Institute for Research on Inclusion and Society (IRIS) provides a demographic snapshot of the employment situation of people with intellectual disabilities. The report draws from the 2006 Participation and Activity Limitation Survey (PALS), which was Statistics Canada’s ‘flagship’ survey on disability.
 

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