Disability rights advocate Vicky Levack wins battle for home in the community
“I’m getting out of this horrible nightmare but there are so many others living their own nightmare with no help in sight” -Vicky Levack
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Road to Inclusion by 2023
In 2013, the current government committed to closing institutions and providing community-based living supports for all persons with disabilities within 10 years—by the end of 2023. It was all set out in the Roadmap—a plan to community inclusion drafted jointly by the Province and disability rights advocates, and endorsed by then Premier Stephen McNeil and his government.
DRC Rally at Province House 13 August 2021
The DRC held a rally at Province House in support of the Road to Inclusion 2023 campaign.
Speaking up for disability justice in N.S.
“It is not fair that because you have a disability, you do not have what you need to survive or be respectedfor your human rights. It is not fair to exclude people because of disability or race or being Indigenous orLGBT2Q+, or some combination of these.” -My Home My Rights (photo: Inclusion Canada)
Demonstration March for Roadmap 2023
Promises were made by Nova Scotia governments since 2013 that they would close institutions and provide community-based living supports for persons with disabilities and/or Autism Spectrum Disorder by 2023 but the reality is the progress has been too slow!
Global News: Disability Rights Coalition wants to see Nova Scotia be more inclusive
n 2013, the incumbent government committed to a ten-year plan for equality, making Nova Scotia fully accessible and promising they would close institutions providing community-based living supports for all persons living with disabilities by 2023. With 30 months to go, the progress thus far has been glacial.
Lack of community supports trap disabled in poverty, institutions
New Disability Rights Coalition report shows Nova Scotia government is not following its own Roadmap
Halifax Examiner: Report: Nova Scotia failing to meet its commitment to de-institutionalize people with disabilities
A report issued yesterday by the Disability Rights Coalition says there remains “a mismatch” between government rhetoric on providing services to disabled adults and the frustrating reality faced by many families. Photo: Questsociety.ca
NS Advocate: Government abandoned earlier commitments to community living supports, new report charges
I remember how genuinely excited disability advocates were when in 2013 Denise Peterson-Rafuse, then minister of Community Services, announced a five-year plan to close down all large institutions for people living with physical or intellectual disabilities and provide them with the supports to live in their own communities, either in a small group home or in a place of their own. -Robert Devet
CBC:Disability rights group bemoans ‘glacial’ progress on community-based care
The Nova Scotia government is being accused of pushing its plans to transform services for people with disabilities to the back burner.
The Disability Rights Coalition says the 2013 roadmap in which the province committed over 10 years to more community-based services rather than institutional care has stalled.
