EndExclusion.ca
Building an Inclusive & Accessible Canada.
A National Initiative Supporting People with Disabilities in Canada

ALBERTA ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY LIVING (AACL)
The Alberta Association for Community Living (AACL) is a family based, non-profit organization representing the interests of children and adults with developmental disabilities and their families from across Alberta. Together we share a family dream that began almost 50 years ago — a dream of meaningful family and community life for our sons and daughters. This dream lives on today and people with developmental disabilities and their families remain at the heart of AACL and our commitment to community inclusion.

FAMILY VOICES provides a powerful vehicle for families to connect to one another, share information, support each other and advocate for needed supports, services and funding. It is essential for all regional authorities to hear the voice of families. Families, in turn, need a strong voice to ensure they are heard. You can have a strong voice by joining the Family Voices network in your region.
We believe that ...
* Families should be consulted before government decisions are made.
* Families must be proactively involved in decision-making processes.
* Families should be heard and respected.
* Informed families are stronger family advocates.
* Through advocacy, communities will become more inclusive of children and adults with developmental disabilities.

By joining the Family Voices network in your region you will be connected to Alberta's single most powerful family advocacy organization for children and adults with developmental disabilities - AACL.

CALGARY COMMUNITY EVENTS AND PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS
Check out community activities and events happening in and around Calgary.

The Disability Tax Credit reduces the income tax that a person with a disability has to pay. If you don't need to use some or all of the tax credit because you have little or no income, you may be able to transfer all or part of it to your spouse, common-law partner or other supporting person. Canada Revenue Agency has more information about services specifically for people with disabilities.

MICHAEL KENDRICK ARTICLES
Kendrick Consulting is a very small specialized international consulting firm principally focused on leadership and emerging developments in the fields of disability, mental health and aging. It undertakes work with governments, non-government organizations and many grass roots initiatives devoted to the needs, issues and rights of disadvantaged people. Its consequent focus is on innovation, quality, change, leadership and other technical aspects of creating sound solutions of a very advanced calibre. It has associates on a worldwide basis available for a wide variety of challenges.

imagine
Finding New Stories For People Who Experience Disabilities
David Pitonyak's website called "Imagine" is about using our imaginations to support people who are considered to have very challenging or difficult behaviours.

THE IMPORTANCE OF BELONGING
David Pitonyak, Ph.D.
Many people who experience disabilities live lives of extreme loneliness and isolation. Many depend almost exclusively on their families for companionship. Some have lost their connections to family, relying on people who are paid to be with them for their social support.

THE FAMILY LENS
(2004) The Family Lens is a tool to enable families to more effectively and readily participate in the development, implementation and evaluation of policies that affect their lives and those of their family members with intellectual/developmental disabilities.

ASSURED INCOME FOR THE SEVERELY HANDICAPPED
Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped provides financial health benefits for adult Albertans with a permanent disability that severely impairs their ability to earn a living. The level of benefits depends on income and assets.

SOCIAL ROLE VALORIZATION (SRV)
SRV workshops and training allow opportunities to gain insight into your own, the human service system's and society's contribution to social devaluation.  Participants will have the opportunity to consider the process whereby people who are socially devalued in some way (perhaps because of such conditions as being old, disabled, mentally ill or poor) are excluded from valued social roles that form the basis of our participation in ordinary community life. The presentations will examine how individuals, human services and the wider society contribute to this devaluation process, and what positive steps can be taken to prevent this from happening.  The topics addressed include: 

• A review of the common life experiences of people who are socially devalued. 
• The theory of social devaluation and its relevance. 
• The role of unconsciousness in human activity
• Role expectancy and role circularity
• Positive compensation for social or personal disadvantage
• The developmental model and personal competency enhancement.
• The role of imitation and modelling
• The role of imagery in shaping consciousness and behaviour. 
• Social integration in community life

CALGARY COMMUNITY EVENTS
See what's going on around Calgary. Eg: clubs, music, plays, dance, information sessions, toastmasters, watersports, and much, much more.

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