The Employment of People with Disabilities: What’s Working?
Under the Labour Market Agreements for Persons with Disabilities (LMAPDs), the federal government continues to share with the provinces the cost of programs that seek to improve the employment prospects of people with disabilities. While there have been improvements in the employment sector since the early 2000s, there is still a long way to go … Continued
No More PALS, Now What?
Statistics Canada’s Participation and Activity Limitation Survey (PALS) of 2001 and 2006 was built on the predecessor Health and Activity Limitation Survey (HALS) of 1986 and 1991. These ‘flagship’ surveys on disability established a kind of international ‘gold standard’ for gathering and reporting statistical data on disability. In 2011, the Minister of Human Resources and … Continued
Premier Alward of New Brunswick acknowledges IRIS’s ‘Policy Making for Inclusion – Leadership Development Program’
New Brunswick Premier David Alward issued a letter to all participants in the “Policy Making for Inclusion – Leadership Development Program”. The program is designed to assist policy makers in achieving the government’s platform commitment to “enable New Brunswickers with disabilities to actively participate in all aspects of society and take their rightful place as full … Continued
Transforming Communities through Social Development
Social development is the process of organizing human energies and activities at higher levels to achieve greater results. There are two key components of social development: Learning and application Society discovers better ways to fulfill its aspirations and develops mechanisms to translate knowledge to achieve its social and economic goals. What does that mean in … Continued
