This workshop aims to increase understanding around why and when disability providers might need to investigate and give an overview of the investigation process once an incident has been alleged, observed or reported.

Build confidence, challenge discrimination, and learn more about your rights when it comes to employment. The Know Your Rights workshop is designed to provide participants with the knowledge and confidence required to identify incidents of discrimination, self-advocate, and develop effective courses of action when confronted with discrimination around employment.

Join us as we discuss legal updates relating to the widespread adoption of “artificial intelligence” technology and its intersection with the civil rights of people with disabilities. We will explore the impact of AI technology on government and businesses and how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) may or may not protect individuals from inadvertent or intentional discrimination caused by computer algorithms created to weed out inefficiency and increase profits. This legal webinar will review applicable law including statutes, case law, and Federal enforcement efforts.

Disabled and d/Deaf people experience numerous barriers to healthcare, including ableist attitudes and policies, inaccessible exam rooms and equipment, inadequate interpreter services, and more. In this presentation, panelists with disabilities will be discussing their experiences in the healthcare system and what changes they believe will reduce ableism in healthcare and improve the system for all.

Understanding disability hate crime, led by Darryl Smith, 30 years experience championing, challenging and dismantling disabling barriers

Understanding disability hate crime, led by Darryl Smith, 30 years experience championing, challenging and dismantling disabling barriers

Understanding disability hate crime, led by Darryl Smith, 30 years experience championing, challenging and dismantling disabling barriers

There is a long history of discrimination of children with mental health conditions, emotional disturbance and other invisible disabilities being misunderstood. Subsequently, children are neglected, bullied, and traumatized from their experiences in school systems. In some cases, this lack of identification and intervention led to school shootings by youth identified as being emotionally challenged. Students who are unable to fully advocate for themselves, such as children with invisible disabilities like autism, are especially vulnerable to not being included or given appropriate access to educational experiences as well as being mistreated. Free Access to Public Education, known as FAPE, aims to provide children the Individualized Education Plan (IEP) that would meet their needs as unique individuals. However, in practice, we as professionals and educators working with children and families fall short with regard to education accommodations and social inclusion.

 

With the rise of diagnoses of invisible disabilities, such as autism spectrum disorders, specific and pointed training is becoming even more necessary for accurate assessments and the generation of appropriate IEPs so that children are not only provided FAPE, but are also safely included in school activities. This type of attention to inclusive education can help build and preserve peer relationships, children’s, dignity as human beings, and to avoid unnecessary involvement in the legal system.

 

This workshop will provide a brief background of the law and cases of children, parental/guardian rights, and provide strategies for clinicians at a Master’s or Doctoral level to proactively provide education and supports to schools, teachers, the students and families in order to produce successful student outcomes in the US and abroad.

This event is hosted by award winning Disability Awareness Consultant Andrew Gurza, and will explore ableism, the discrimination against disabled people in favor of non-disabled people.

Through a series of slides and candid conversation, Andrew will uncover how ableism touches every single part of disabled people's lives: from everyday conversations and interactions to self-perception and sexual encounters. All facets will be explored to underscore the emotional impact of living with ableism

This class is open for disabled people to understand how ableism impacts their own emotions as disability community members, but is also open for non-disabled people to grow, learn and understand how ableism affects their lives and interactions with their disabled peers.

This course is ideal for students, professionals, caregivers and other individuals looking to better understand disability issues or how to be a better ally for disabled social justice issues.

This workshop will equip attendees with an understanding of different the Equality Act 2010 with a focu on Disability discrimination in the workplace.

The Breif overview of the Equality Act 2010 + Disability discrimination is a webinar by Exceptional Individuals that discusses dyslexia and neurodiversity from a law, employment and advocacy-perspective in an engaging interactive way.

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Disability (Is Not a Bad Word) is a safe peer-led space to build support and friendship. This group is for folks who are disabled (self-defined), chronically ill, those who experience chronic pain, have mobility impairments, and anyone who is navigating living outside of the spectrum of neurotypical and/or able-bodied norms.

We honor that every individual is their own expert and every individual has the right to make their own choices including how they explain, understand, address, and describe their lived experience, mental/physical health, and identities.

In a world that often doesn’t make room for us, this group is a space for us to feel a sense of comfort and belonging. It’s a chance to meet others like you, who can relate to what you may be going through. People who need or want assistance are welcome to bring someone to join them during the group’s meetings, but otherwise this group is closed to only patrons for whom the group is meant. We will have an open discussion on a different topic each month. We welcome you to come and just be in the space with us, there is no need to share anything to attend, your role as a supportive listener is equally as important. Our focus is around discussing daily life, having a safe space to vent and air grievances, discussing topics relevant to our community, celebrating our diverse abilities, while creating friendships with like-minded peers.

We having this event about tacking disability discrimination – come and join the conversation

Our speakers are

Aberdeenshire UNISON Donna Scott and Clare Taylor-Brown

Moray UNISON Janis Donaldson

Orkney LG UNISON Katharine McKerrell

Shetland UNISON Susanne Gens

Speakers will share their views on this important topic and how they come to their own conclusions

Follow by a discussion including a time of questions and where we can go from here particularly with 2022 Year of the Disabled Worker

 

Chaired by Kathleen Kennedy Aberdeenshire UNISON Equalities Coordinator

What is a disability and how prevalent is it? How do the environment and common assumptions shape our perception of disability? Stacey Trowbridge and Kristin Myers of Disability Network Lakeshore will address these questions and explore diversity, equity, and inclusion through the lens of disability. We will also discuss the concept of Ableism: what it is, looks like, and how to recognize and avoid being ablest.

Policy efforts addressing abuse of people with disability tend to focus on more extreme forms of violence, sometimes at the expense of attending to everyday indignities and insults experienced when receiving support. Recognition theory provides a lens for identifying actions and attitudes of misrecognition that can cause hurt, humiliation or degradation, and have a negative effect on identity formation.

In our project, we used Honneth’s concept of misrecognition to analyse qualitative data from 42 pairs of young people with intellectual disability and support workers. Many of the casual interactions that signalled misrecognition highlighted the everyday harms that people receiving support are exposed to, along with their often under-supervised workers. Systems must respond to the high likelihood of these risks of misrecognition. Supervision, training, reflective practice and support activities can expose the problems and demonstrate practices more likely to positively impact the identity formation and wellbeing for both people with disability and support workers.

Sally Robinson is a Professor in Disability and Community Inclusion at Flinders University. Her work is focused on key social policy concerns for people with disability such as safety and abuse, wellbeing, participation and funding and organisation of community services. Most of the work in her research program has been co-produced with people with disability, and generated from their priorities. This has taken them into very interesting and important territory – relationships, violence, loneliness, belonging, quality of support – and also translated into new approaches to research and evaluation for government and NGOs.

Karen Fisher is a Professor at the UNSW Social Policy Research Centre. Her research interests are the organisation of social services in Australia and China; disability and mental health policy; inclusive research and evaluation; and social policy process. Karen applies mixed methodology and adopts inclusive research methods with people with disability, families, policy officials and services providers.

Heikki Ikaheimo is a philosopher and Senior Lecturer at UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture whose research areas include Hegel, German idealism, theories of recognition, intersubjectivity, subjectivity, personhood, the differences and similarities of the human life-form with other animal forms of life, social ontology, critical social philosophy, and social critique. He is best known through his work in the theory of recognition.

Register through Eventbrite now, and you will be sent the Zoom link to this event before the start.

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Australia has legislation in the form of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth) and the Disability Standards for Education 2005 (Cth) that has the objective of eliminating disability discrimination.

It is a system whereby parents must bring a claim of discrimination to conciliation, and perhaps on to litigation. This complaints-based system places a heavy burden of proof on parents. Parents struggle to understand the rights of their children under the Act and the Standards. Many parents lack knowledge about disability discrimination laws and may not even recognise their situation as discrimination

Although consultation with the student or family is required under the Standards, students and parents have limited knowledge about possible assessment adjustments, and many teachers and other professionals may also lack adequate knowledge.

 

About the presenter

Dr Jill Duncan has a mixed professional portfolio of executive-level public service, educational leadership in the not-for-profit sector, and academia. In addition, she has in-depth lived experience, research experience, theoretical and practical knowledge in promoting equality, equity, diversity, and inclusion across the lifespan for people with disability.

Join us on Zoom with a supportive group of peers, where we discuss your experiences and share helpful information in how to help you cope.

Led by our Adult Bobath neuro-physiotherapist and members of our Bobath team, you can ask us any burning questions, join the discussion and gain some general coping strategies.

This month, we'll be joined by Jo Mackie, senior associate at Slater & Gordon who'll be leading a supportive talk on your legal rights when dealing with discrimination you may face with your disability. You'll have the opportunity to ask questions and share your experiences in a safe and supportive space.

By registering for this session, you'll be added to our Monthly Adult Meet-up mailing list, where we can inform you about future meet ups and other relevant events and support available for you. You can unsubscribe at any time by emailing [email protected]

Navigating discrimination in the workplace is complicated enough. When you must deal with multiple layers of discrimination based on your circumstances, it can be even more frustrating. Hear from this panel of legal professionals their stories of discrimination, the tools they use to navigate and thrive in the legal industry and how they believe we can show up as better allies.

Zoom access will be provided 24-48 hours before the event.

Disability Equality - Understanding the Equality Act and how it applies to all children’s and youth work.

This seminar looks at:

Disability Equality Legislation Guidelines; detail regarding terms used and current disability legislation, specifically the Equality Act 2010, in relation to children’s/youth work.

Urban Saints Disability Equality Policy; how Urban Saints applies disability equality law.

Further Supporting Information; tips and resources to help and support you.

The seminar provides you with everything you need to better understand the legal requirements under current disability equality legislation to treat equally children, young people, and adult team members with additional needs or disabilities within groups, camps and overseas mission trips etc.

The 'All Inclusive?' - Disability Equality training programme includes:

- A comprehensive colour A4 training workbook with a wealth of information and resources sent to each participant in advance.

- Access to a series of videos to explore and learn through, covering a range of topics related to disability equality legislation and how to apply it.

- Finally, a Zoom session including discussion groups, case studies, Q&A, and signposting to further resources to investigate, as we wrap this programme up together.

- Participants completing all three Urban Saints 'All Inclusive?' training programmes will receive a certificate.

"It’s an amazing opportunity to gather information and informed advice and tips. Answered my questions and uncertainties and made me feel equipped and excited about how I can work alongside all young people."