Making Poverty for Persons with Disabilities History

Outcome: The full inclusion of persons with disabilities in the social, cultural, political, and economic spheres of society.

Actions:

• Public education campaign to combat the myths surrounding disability.
• Community living for persons with disabilities, rather than institutionalization.
• Consumer control of disability supports, including self management of services.
• A seamless lifelong continuum of support services for persons with disabilities.
• Comprehensive program for the purchase, maintenance, and upgrade of assistive devices.
• Stable equitable funding for disability supportsthroughout the province.
• Well trained service providers that have a good understanding of disability issues.
• Persons caing for persons with disbilities are provided respite.
• Improved home care services including staff continuity, technical support taining, and 24 hour emergency service.
• Supporting persons with disabilities, and their families, transitioning into adult life, including life skills training.
• Supporting persons with disabilities i gaining the education and training of their choice, including post secondary education.

Inclusive Rights, Values and Ethics . . .and Persons with Disabilities

Values and ethics inform and shape the social construction of our societies and the general socio-economic realities of all people. The basic values of societies around the world contribute to "exclusion and marginalization" of people with intellectual and other disabilities. This is evident in:

• The increasing use of genetic technologies to identify disability;
• The growing gap between mortality rates for children with disabilities and the general population;
• The disproportionate vulnerability of persons with disabilities to violence and abuse;
• The active discrimination in many immigration systems around the world that serve to deny immigration to a person with a disability based on outdated stereotypes and assumptions that persons with disabilities impose an excessive burden.

These trends result from exclusionary values and ethics and institutionalized discussions that are, for the most part, unregulated. Many countries lack the legal/political infrastructure to . . .respond to new and emerging threats to the value and dignity of persons with disabilities. - CACL Brochure