Inclusion Canada, formerly the Canadian Association for Community Living, is a non-profit organization founded in 1958 to assist in training and socialization of people with
intellectual disabilities
Intellectual disability (ID), also known as general learning disability (in the United Kingdom), and formerly mental retardation (in the United States), Rosa's Law, Pub. L. 111-256124 Stat. 2643(2010).Archive is a generalized neurodevelopmental ...
, then known as ''Mental Retardation''.
History
The organization was founded as the "Canadian Association for Retarded Children".
In 1969, the name was changed, to "Canadian Association for the Mentally Retarded". The current name was adopted in 1985.
In 1963, the organization established the "Canadian John F. Kennedy Memorial Fund for Retarded Children". The money raised went to the organization and was used to fund research.
A "Canadian Retarded Children's Week" was also established in 1964 for fundraising, to run from May 6 to 16. The theme was "Flowers of Hope".
Cosmos
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The cosmos is studied in cosmologya broad discipline covering ...
seeds were mailed out as a part of fundraising efforts.
The organization was a proponent of
Deinstitutionalisation
Deinstitutionalisation (or deinstitutionalization) is the process of replacing long-stay psychiatric hospitals with less isolated community mental health services for those diagnosed with a mental disorder or developmental disability. In the 1950 ...
.
There are branches and subbranches in all Canadian provinces. In 1972, "L'institut National Canadien Francis" merged with the organization to provide French-language services.
During the 1970s NBCAMR operated
sheltered workshop The term sheltered workshop refers to an organization or environment that employs people with disabilities separately from others, usually with exemptions from labor standards, including but not limited to the absence of minimum wage requirements.
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s in
Lindsay, New Brunswick, and other small communities. They were later closed when the organizations goals shifted.
The organization was involved in the
Infant K case in 1985, the Eve case, and others involving
involuntary contraceptive sterilization.
The organization rebranded from the "Canadian Association for Community Living" to Inclusion Canada on September 14, 2020.
During the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...
, the organization received a $416,883 grant from the
Public Health Agency of Canada
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC; ) is an agency of the Government of Canada that is responsible for public health, emergency preparedness and response, and infectious and chronic disease control and prevention.
History
The PHAC was f ...
's Immunization Partnership Fund to increase uptake of
COVID-19 vaccines
A COVID19 vaccine is a vaccine intended to provide acquired immunity against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID19).
Knowledge about the structure and func ...
among people with intellectual disabilities and their families.
See also
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Community Living Ontario
Community Living Ontario (formerly ''Ontario Association for Community Living'') is a non-profit organization in Ontario, Canada, for people with intellectual disabilities.
Community Living Ontario is a confederation of more than 105 local associ ...
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R. v. Swain
''R v Swain'', 991
Year 991 (Roman numerals, CMXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
Events
* March 1: In Rouen, Pope John XV ratifies the first Peace and Truce of God, Truce of God, between Æthelred the Unready and Richard I o ...
1 S.C.R. 933 is a leading constitutional decision of the Supreme Court of Canada on certain rights of the mentally ill in their criminal defence. The case concerned a constitutional challenge of the common law rule permitting ...
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Sheltered workshop The term sheltered workshop refers to an organization or environment that employs people with disabilities separately from others, usually with exemptions from labor standards, including but not limited to the absence of minimum wage requirements.
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Organizations established in 1958
Disability organizations based in Canada
Organizations based in Ontario
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