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The national Community Inclusion Initiative is focused on creating system change within all our priority areas, and advancing the development of inclusive public policy. Based on and informed by this work, and our associated values, CACL has developed the following policy position statements.

the latest edition of the family newsletter Coming Together is now available on this site. It can be found under the Sector Priorities section, Family and Disability Supports.

  Ripple Effect 7 Handout slides

Join BCACL and the Canadian Association for Community Living for a national forum on real homes and real choice for people with intellectual disabilities. Searching For Home: a national forum on policy, practices and innovations in building and sustaining real homes for people with intellectual disabilities Join the conversation with people from across Canada as [...]

After receiving and coming to terms with a diagnosis for our children, we are faced with a steep learning curve. One of the first things we must learn about is the extensive system of organizations and services available or, in many cases, the unavailability in our community. As in life, there are no textbooks to [...]

This document has been created by the “National Individualized Funding Discussion Group,” a group of family members, professionals and academics who have come together to foster the further understanding, development and implementation of IF in Canada for persons with disabilities and their families. This Framework is meant to outline the key elements required for the [...]

To support social and recreational program providers to become more inclusive of people with disabilities, the Association has developed this guide. We sincerely hope that you find it a useful tool. Use the information we’ve included to make sure that everyone belongs. Help make inclusion the norm.

Produced by the Yellowknife Association for Community Living, Information Bites is a series of short resource guides which provide information on a variety of topics for families that include a member with a disability.

This handbook is for parents raising school aged children and youth with developmental disabilities. As the parent of a son or daughter with special needs who attends school, you may have questions about the school system, how to secure the support your child needs at school, who does what at school, or what to do [...]

Written by the CACL PFC Joint Task Force on the Right to Live in Community (formerly the Joint Task Force on Deinstitutionalization), ‘The Right Way’ is a guide for community and government leaders involved in planning the closure of institutions for persons with intellectual disabilities and the creation of supports to enable individuals to move [...]

The PEI Disability Action Council is comprised of 19 members from advocacy groups, service organizations, government departments, businesses and community members. The Council plays an integral role in consulting with and advising government on new and existing legislation, policies, programs and services affecting people with disabilities in Prince Edward Island. The Council has identified 14 priority [...]

In 2007-2008, the provincial government called together members of the disability community to form the Disability Services Review Committee. Its mandate was to consult with the Island Community on the state of the disability community across PEI. As a result of its work, two reports have been released: ‘Report on Phase I Publication Consultations’ and [...]

Yukon Association for Community Living believes and encourages fully including people labeled with intellectual disabilities into the community. This paper provokes our positions on a number of key concepts.

This report provides a brief overview of the evolution of the Initiative from 1997 to 2005, summarizes the major accomplishments achieved to that point in the Initiative, and examines the implications for the Initiative as the CI partnership considered movement toward the entrenchment of inclusion at a systemic level.

This document tells the story of the Community Inclusion Project. It gives a short history of the Project, its background, and the reasons why the Project was begun. More importantly this document describes and gives examples of what we have learned, as partners, about helping communities become more inclusive. It describes how the Project has [...]

The Coming Together newsletter is a quarterly publication meant to be a way to keep our grassroots informed as to what is happening across this country and to provide examples of the power of families to effect change and to inspire those who have not yet been actively involved.

Poverty Watch is  a newsletter that is dedicated to monitoring progress toward the eradication of poverty for persons with intellectual disabilities and their families.

This newsletter is dedicated to tracking the progress in achieving inclusive education for all learners and students – from early childhood to post-secondary education.  

NSACL Position Paper on Deinstitutionalization December 2010

Deinstitutionalization – Progress or Regress

NSACL Nursing Home Report

On October 14 through 16 2011, representatives from the BC Association for Community Living visited lovely Ainsworth Hot Springs in the heart of the West Kootenays in BC to spend a weekend with a group of parents raising children with developmental disabilities, for a retreat called The Ripple Effect. This is the seventh time BCACL [...]

Youth Make Inclusion Matter Year-Round- Summer Spotlight on Re:Action4Inclusion July was an exciting time for a group of Ontario youth – not only because school was out, but because they participated in unique summer events through Community Living Ontario’s youth-driven inclusion strategy known as ‘Re:ACTION4INCLUSION’. http://www.communitylivingontario.ca/

Institution Watch is a regular newsletter published within the CI project on a quarterly basis. The newsletter is dedicated to highlighting deinstitutionalization efforts occurring across Canada.  

The Yukon YACL’s Ynklude group is celebrating Women’s History Month with a performance this week that spans the generations. “Songs of Love, Loss and Living” bring mothers and daughters together in a moving performance by the group. The show will take place this Thursday, October 27, at 7 p.m. at the YACL office, in the [...]

Mr. Ryan Leef, M.P. for Yukon Whitehorse, Yukon Territory   Dear Mr. Leef, On behalf of the Yukon Association for Community Living, I would like to thank you for meeting with our organization today. We wanted to speak with you to ask your help to ensure Yukoners with Intellectual Disabilities have full citizenship in the [...]

Since the first of September, People First chapters and members across the country have been reaching out to connect with their Members of Parliament to give them a simple message – continue funding the Community Inclusion Initiative! In a very short period of time, dozens of these meetings have occurred. We are proud to say [...]

These are the annual brochures that describe what is happening with respect to community inclusion projects in provinces and territories across the country.

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