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Webinar: Empower U, Why Inclusive Education Matters: Canada’s Contribution to the Conversation, May 14, 2020, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Atlantic Time
Join us for another Empower U webinar to learn more about the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and its Optional Protocol (OP) and be part of a Canada-wide network engaged in acting for the implementation of the CRPD. The webinar will feature Gordon L. Porter, C.M., O.N.B.!
We have decided to continue the webinar series as an alternative to face-to-face meetings planned for Atlantic Canada, which were cancelled in light of current COVID 19 related travel restrictions.
The next webinar is on Thursday, May 14th from 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. EDT, or 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Atlantic time and will focus on using human rights to advance access to inclusive education. Real-time Captioning and ASL will be provided.
While interested disability advocates from Atlantic Canada are especially encouraged to attend, we welcome anyone who is interested to participate in these webinars.
Speaker: Gordon L. Porter, C.M., O.N.B.
Gordon L. Porter’s presentation will focus on Why Inclusive Education Matters: Canada’s Contribution to the Conversation. Gordon L. Porter is the Director of Inclusive Education Canada and has more than 35 years of experience with inclusive education. He has acted as a Senior Policy Advisor on inclusive education for KHDA (Government of Dubai), the Education Ministries in Spain, The Bahamas, South Africa, Panama, Peru and Portugal. Most recently he led the development of new policies and guidelines for inclusive education in New Brunswick, The Northwest Territories and Nova Scotia. Gordon Porter is a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of New Brunswick.
Porter has conducted training in more than 40 countries.
Online event registration: https://secure.neads.ca/register/en.php?id=20GP
Zoom URL on the day of the meeting:
Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/vJUkc-CuqjguGncpNxIgpHMCI7WkkcqNtw
Meeting ID: 119-496-434
Password: 34120
Teleconference Access: 1-647-558-0588
Description: The continuation of a series of ten webinars offering training for people with disabilities who are willing to make a commitment to share their knowledge in their communities / organizations with their peers for the purpose of increased awareness of how to remedy discrimination using more familiar (Human Rights Codes) and newer instruments (United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the CRPD's Optional Protocol to train other people to do likewise.
Webinars will be held from April 23 to May 27, 2020. Recordings will be available to participants after webinars.
Learning Objectives:
•To increase the number of Canadians with disabilities, particularly youth with disabilities and people with disabilities from ethno-cultural communities, who are knowledgeable about available human rights remedies to discrimination and how to access these remedies
• To increase capacity of Canadians with disabilities to share that knowledge with their peers so that more people across Canada (particularly with disabilities and multi-ethnic communities) will have the information necessary to navigate the systems where Canadians can seek redress for discrimination
Learning Outcomes: At the end of the training participants will have:
• In-depth knowledge of how to use United Nations Convention on The Rights of Persons With Disabilities (CRPD) and the Optional Protocol, as well as Human Rights Codes and the Accessible Canada Act
• In-depth understanding of how to access and navigate the systems where Canadians with disabilities can seek redress from discrimination
About the Project:
The project Nothing About Us Without Us: Empower U, Learn to Access Your Disability Rights is funded by Employment and Social Development Canada and implemented by the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) in collaboration with the Canadian Multicultural Disability Centre Inc. (CMDCI), Citizens With Disabilities – Ontario (CWDO), the Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities (MLPD) and the National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS).