Resolve Concerns for Your Child At School – A Simple Step By Step Guide
Do you have concerns about a decision the school or district made for your child/youth? Learn how to resolve them!
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BCEdAccess Letter to Premier David Eby on Ministerial Mandate Letters
An excellent step towards an accessible and equitable British Columbia would be to actually use the word disability in the mandate letter for the Ministry of Education and Child Care, and other ministries supporting children, youth and adults with disabilities.
BCEdAccess Executive Director Appointed to Technical Committee for Accessible Services Delivery Standard in BC
We’re pleased to share that our Executive Director, Tracy Humphreys, has been offered a position on offered a position on the Technical Committee for Accessible… Read More »BCEdAccess Executive Director Appointed to Technical Committee for Accessible Services Delivery Standard in BC
Letter to Vancouver School Board Regarding the School Liaison Officer Program
November 17, 2022 To whom it may concern: The BCEdAccess Society is an organization of families of children and youth with disabilities and complex learners… Read More »Letter to Vancouver School Board Regarding the School Liaison Officer Program
INDIGENOUS DISABILITY AWARENESS MONTH
We join to support the British Columbia Aboriginal Network on Disability Society and proclaim November #IndigenousDisabilityAwarenessMonth. BCANDS reminds us #IDAM brings awareness of barriers and… Read More »INDIGENOUS DISABILITY AWARENESS MONTH
Dreaming Big About Education 2 at #AdvoCon2022
Dreaming Big About Education 2 at #AdvoCon2022 – don’t miss out on tickets to this event with 33 speakers over 4 days online at our online advocacy conference! #bced #bcedchat
Disability History: The Journey to Inclusion at #AdvoCon2022
Disability History: The Journey to Inclusion at #AdvoCon2022 – don’t miss out on tickets to this event with 33 speakers over 4 days online at our online advocacy conference! #bced #bcedchat @InclusionBC
Scaling the impact of Inclusive Post-secondary Education at #AdvoCon2022
Scaling the Impact of Inclusive Post-secondary Education at #AdvoCon2022 – don’t miss out on tickets to this event with 33 speakers over 4 days online at our online advocacy conference! #bced #bcedchat @STEPSForwardBC
What the Health – a World Cafe on Mental Health at #AdvoCon2022
What The Health? A World Cafe on mental health at #AdvoCon2022 – don’t miss out on tickets to this event with 33 speakers over 4 days online at our online advocacy conference! #bced #bcedchat @laughingshelley
Connecting with the Community: Making Change Through Positive Relationships with Self Advocates of Semiahmoo at #AdvoCon2022
Connecting with the Community: Making Change Through Positive Relationships with Self Advocates of Semiahmoo at #AdvoCon2022 – don’t miss out on tickets to this event with 33 speakers over 4 days online at our online advocacy conference! #bced #bcedchat @uniti4all
Human Rights Law with Laura Track at #AdvoCon2022
Human Rights Law with Laura Track at #AdvoCon2022 – don’t miss out on tickets to this event with 33 speakers over 4 days online at our online advocacy conference! #bced #bcedchat @lktrack
Being and Belonging: An EDI Roadmap with Levonne Abshire at #AdvoCon2022
Being and Belonging: An EDI Roadmap with Levonne Abshire at #AdvoCon2022 – don’t miss out on tickets to this event with 33 speakers over 4 days online at our online advocacy conference! #bced #bcedchat @levonneyvr
Community Conversation around Joint UBC/BCEdAccess Research Project at #AdvoCon2022
Community Conversation around Joint UBC/BCEdAccess Research Project at #AdvoCon2022 with @GERONursing – don’t miss out on tickets to this event with 33 speakers over 4 days online at our online advocacy conference! #bced #bcedchat
Sue Sterling-Bur presents on Indigenous Rights Within the World of Dis-ability – #AdvoCon2022
Indigenous Rights Within the World of Dis-ability at #AdvoCon2022 with @SueStirling6 – don’t miss out on tickets to this event with 33 speakers over 4 days online at our online advocacy conference! #bced #bcedchat
Workshop: How to request, prepare for, run and follow up advocacy meetings – #AdvoCon2022
Workshop: How to request, prepare for, run and follow up advocacy meetings – #AdvoCon2022 with @picsofyoucmorv – don’t miss out on tickets to this event with 33 speakers over 4 days online at our online advocacy conference! #bced #bcedchat
Discrimination continues in 4th year of tracking exclusion in BC schools
– This year’s Exclusion Tracker report shows BC children and youth with disabilities missed thousands of days of school, were left without support or instruction, were left out of field trips, clubs and events, were secluded and restrained, and numbers haven’t improved over 4 years of collecting and sharing data.
Deadline to Apply July 7th – Canada Summer Jobs Youth Positions
BCEdAccess has volunteer and paid job opportunities through the year. CURRENT EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES You can apply for these positions by following the instructions on the… Read More »Deadline to Apply July 7th – Canada Summer Jobs Youth Positions
#Advcon2022 – Save the Date and Sponsor this event!
BC EdAccess is proud to be hosting our 8th annual educational advocacy conference. The upcoming event will be our third fully virtual AdvoCon, hosted online from Thursday, October 20 through Sunday, October 23, 2022.
BCEdAccess Annual BC Budget Presentation to the Finance Committee
BCEdAccess presented again to the Select Standing Committee On Finance And Government Services today, an annual opportunity to provide suggestions to the committee to make recommendations to government on budget priorities for the province.
Transparency, Accountability and Procedural Fairness – thoughts on BC school boards and trustees
If trustees are to be censured and suspended from their duties, then we believe the public has a right to know the details, including the cost of this investigation using public funds intended for student services and supports, so that we can decide for ourselves whether the action, which prevents trustees from performing their elected duties, was warranted.
BC School Covid Decision Making For Families
Based on a chart and information developed back in 2020 by Inclusion BC, Family Support Institute of BC and BCEdAccess in 2020 but never released,… Read More »BC School Covid Decision Making For Families
Letter With Recommendations For January 2022 Back To School In #BCed
Asking disabled students to stay home if they don’t feel safe is ableist. Action to specifically protect vulnerable learners will show that their safety needs are a priority. This is an opportunity to get it right, after a very isolating year where so many families just left altogether when they realized that no one was going to offer safe and equitable learning to their disabled children and youth.When we ask for equitable access to education, it applies to health and safety too. Creating a safe learning environment for disabled students and staff benefits ALL students and staff, and the broader community.
International Human Rights Day 2021
It’s International Human Rights Day. Learn about our Day 8 rally for disability rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and SDG 4, Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education. #bced #bcpoli #HumanRights
8 Days of Action For Access – The Time Is Now!
Nov 25 – Dec 3 – barriers to access in education and all systems and enact the rights of disabled children, youth and adults. Access delayed is access denied!
Executive Director’s statement on Comments in the Legislature
I was quoted saying that families without current access to supports and services through CYSN are thrilled. What I said was that SOME families are thrilled. This is an accurate statement. What she didn’t share is that I ALSO said many families are anxious about the changes.
BCEdaccess Budget Proposal for the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services
BCEdaccess Budget Proposal for the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services #BCBudget #bcpoli #bced