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Community Inclusion Month Event: People with Disabilities and Institutionalization: History or Continued Reality?

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KPU Surrey Campus, 12666 72 Avenue

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Facilitator: Dr. Fiona Whittington-Walsh

Wednesday, October 15, 11:00AM-4:00PM, KPU Surrey campus, conference centre Cedar 1205.

October is recognized in BC as Community Inclusion Month. This event is co-hosted by Kwantlen Polytechnic University, BC People’s First, and BC’s Self Advocate Leadership Network. The event will bring together members of the wider KPU community to acknowledge Community Inclusion Month. Key to the event is a keynote address by special screening of People First of Canada’s 2024 documentary, These Four Walls: A documentary on the Manitoba Developmental Centre. Dr Michael Bach, internationally renowned researcher and community leader on ways to advance the full inclusion and human rights of persons with disabilities, will be giving a keynote address.

Following the film, there will be a panel discussion with Dr Bach, self-advocate leaders Barb Goode and Bryce Schaufelberger, and Karla Verschoor, Executive Director of Inclusion BC.

ASL interpreters will be present.

We will be having a low sensory space provided by LETS.

Morning coffee and lunch will be served.

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