Community Advocacy Project on Disability Issues EDUC19599

This project, completed for the EDUC19599 Community Advocacy Project, focuses on disability issues in Canada, particularly the challenges faced by disabled individuals in accessing essential services and participating fully in community life. The student identifies problems such as lack of accessible parking and difficulties in accessing building amenities. The project's goal is to advocate for improved accessibility, including better parking facilities and increased public awareness and understanding of disability issues. The student outlines a plan of action, including writing a letter to management to request changes and educating people on how to interact with disabled individuals. The project also addresses potential barriers, such as resistance from landlords or lack of funding, and proposes solutions to overcome these challenges. The student references relevant Canadian legislation and research to support the advocacy efforts and emphasizes the importance of protecting the rights of disabled people through community education and advocacy. The project aims to create a more inclusive and accessible environment for disabled individuals, promoting equal opportunities and full participation in society.

Running Head: Disability Issue
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Chronic pain disorders, mobility, and endurance are the most prevalent types of disability
in Canada. As per the Canadian survey, approximately 3.8 million middle-aged people from 16-
65 years are disabled people, and 13.7 % of people living with certain disabilities (Jehn &
Zajacova, 2019). Disable people deal with various issues in their daily life like they face
problems accessing the parking, garbage, recycle bins, trouble in accessing back building, and
many more. Being an active member of the Community Advocacy Project, the intended outcome
is to overcome the problem of physically abled people in our society, by helping them in getting
better accessible parking spots at the apartment building where I live by seeking help from
management(Weiss et al., 2108).
My goal is to teach people how to interact with disabled people at church, playground
so that they do not feel isolated. As per the Canadian Constitution, individual rights are
reserved for disabled people, like allowing opportunities and equal education facilities,
providing support from the government, and providing appropriate aid to disabled people so
they can access anything on their own without seeking others' help (McColl et al., 2016). For our
society, we started a program that educates people and spread awareness of how to deal with
physically abled people. Writing a letter to management and seeking help from them and
addressing the issue like lack of accessible ramps around my building to be used with people
with wheelchairs, which can provide aid to the disabled people.
In our society, we can bring changes by seeking help from the landlords, regional
governments, management in our locality. By providing equipments like walkers and open
transport, access to parking, garbage and recycling bins, back building access, building park for
them. Treating them properly so that it would be easy for disabled people to access anything
without seeking help from others. As a part of an active advocacy community, we must protect

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and give the rights to physically abled people by understanding them and educating people to
help them in every possible way.

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Reference
Jehn, A., & Zajacova, A. (2019). Disability trends in Canada: 2001–2014 population estimates
and correlates. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 110(3), 354-363.
McColl, M. A., Bond, R., Shannon, D. W., & Shortt, C. (2016). People with Disabilities and the
Charter: Disability rights at the Supreme Court of Canada under the Charter of Rights and
Freedoms. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 5(1), 183-210.
Weiss, J. A., Thomson, K., Burnham Riosa, P., Albaum, C., Chan, V., Maughan, A. & Black, K.
(2018). A randomized waitlist‐controlled trial of cognitive behavior therapy to improve
emotion regulation in children with autism. Journal of Child Psychology and
Psychiatry, 59(11), 1180-1191.