New Guide: Disclosing Your Disability: A Legal Guide for People with Disabilities in BC

Do you know your legal rights around disclosing your disability?

Through DABC projects, it’s become clear to us that many people with disabilities do not understand their legal rights and responsibilities around disclosure of their disability in the context of employment. We have created a new guide Disclosing Your Disability: A Legal Guide for People with Disabilities in BC to inform and assist people with disabilities. This valuable legal resource goes step-by-step through the planning and decision-making necessary when considering disclosure to an employer.

The guide is available online here: http://tinyurl.com/zg734c7. A limited amount of hard copies are also available. If you would like us to mail you a copy, please contact Val at 604-875-0188 or email feedback@disabilityalliancebc.therightfitbc.org.

We would like your feedback on the guide, through a short online survey. If you reply by July 6 /16, your name will be entered in a raffle for one of two $20 gift certificates for London Drugs or Starbucks. Take the survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YCK8XMD.

Thank you very much to the Law Foundation of BC for making this guide possible.

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Video: Mayor's remarks on Jeanette Andersen

Beautiful remarks by Mayor Gregor Robertson about the work of Jeanette Andersen and all she accomplished for the disability community. She is sadly missed by us all.

http://civic.neulion.com/cityofvancouver/index.php?clipid=3494586%2C002

 

Jeanette Andersen

jeanetteDABC is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of long-time DABC Board member Jeanette Andersen. Jeanette was a kind-hearted, generous and funny person with a positive outlook on life. In addition to her more than 16 years of service on the Board, Jeanette made many positive contributions to the disability community. She was the BC Association for Individualized Technology and Supports for People with Disabilities’ (BCITS) Peer-Support Co-coordinator with the Provincial Respiratory Outreach Program (PROP) since 2002, participated on the City of Vancouver’s Persons with Disabilities Advisory Committee, and advocated for increased accessibility in city planning and housing. We will miss her very much. Our sincere condolences to Jeanette’s family and friends.