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Transitioning Youth with Disabilities and Employment – TYDE
Find out more at www.mytyde.ca The TYDE Project is a research project of key partners committed to improving the employment outcomes of transitioning youth with intellectual disabilities (ID) and/or autism spectrum (ASD) disorder in BC. This important and timely initiative aligns with Provincial priorities to enhance and foster the inclusion and citizenship of youth with […]
Tim Stainton Awarded IASSIDD Fellowship Status
Congratulations Tim! Fellowship in IASSIDD is recognition by peers in the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities of outstanding contributions in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities. IASSIDD Fellows are members who have earned distinction by their scientific or practical contribution to the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities […]
Inclusive Employment Mapping Tool
A joint initiative between the Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship & Centre for Social, Spatial and Economic Justice has created an interactive on-line map that strives to further the inclusion and full citizenship of people with intellectual disabilities & their families across British Columbia. Watch the video…UBCO TV
LEARNING
Inspiring new ways of thinking.
KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE
Harnessing the power of knowledge to impact social change.
RESEARCH
Mobilizing research into practice.

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Please consider supporting our 2018 Annual Campaign. Join us to build on what we know works, grounding new supports, services and systems rooted in evidence based practice and growing BC’s reputation as an international leader in Community Living and intellectual disability policy.
We can’t believe we’re al,most 10!

Current Research Projects

The Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship strives to further the inclusion and full citizenship of people with intellectual disabilities and their families locally, nationally and globally. Take some time to learn about the exciting research we’re currently involved in!
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We can’t believe we are almost 10!

The Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship will celebrate our 10th Anniversary in 2019 and we wouldn’t have made it this far without you. Please consider contributing to our 2018 Annual Campaign to raise funds to support our community engagement, learning and outreach activities. Your donation of any amount will go directly to support these activities. […]

W5 Saturday March 17 – “Growing up Scared”

This Saturday, March 17, 2018, at 7:00p.m. The CTV Documentary show W5 will be featuring “Growing up Scared” a discussion on aging for individuals with disabilities. While the documentary will discuss many troubling and very real issues, there will also be a focus on Microboards as a positive option. Don’t miss Jeff Moulins who created […]

Call for artists with disabilities: “Human Flourishing in Worlds of Disability, Frailty and Suffering”

The Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship is part of a large multi-party collaboration entitled “Human Flourishing in Worlds of Disability, Frailty and Suffering”; bringing together partners from education, research and arts sectors, led by the Canadian Association for Community Living (CACL). The project is currently accepting applications from Canadian Mad, Deaf, & disability identified artists from across Canada […]

BC Leadership Institute on Developmental Disabilities

Coming to UBCO in Kelowna May 14 – 18, 2018. Apply to participate in our upcoming British Columbia Leadership Institute. This Institute is being held by the University of Delaware’s National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities in partnership with the Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship at UBC. The National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities is a consortium of […]

New Book: Intellectual disability- A conceptual history, 1200 -1900

Edited by Patrick McDonagh, C.F. Goodey and Tim Stainton DESCRIPTION This collection explores the historical origins of our modern concepts of intellectual or learning disability. The essays, from some of the leading historians of ideas of intellectual disability, focus on British and European material from the Middle Ages to the late-nineteenth century and extend […]

United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities Film Festival

Join us in Kelowna at the UBC Okanagan Campus, Sunday December 3 from 1 – 3 pm

B.C. celebrates Indigenous Disability Awareness Month

Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction Press Release British Columbians are invited to celebrate the contributions of Indigenous people with disabilities as government has proclaimed November Indigenous Disability Awareness Month. Acting on a recommendation from the British Columbia Aboriginal Network on Disability Society (BCANDS), B.C. became the first province in Canada to dedicate November […]

Forced sterilization of young women with disabilities must end, UN rights expert says

NEW YORK (24 October, 2017) – Forced sterilization and other procedures infringing on sexual and reproductive integrity are part of a pattern of “systemic violence” being carried out on girls and young women with disabilities, and must be eradicated without delay, a UN expert on human rights and disability has said. “We can no longer […]

Campaign seeks to turn disabled voters into powerful force

(This story if from NorthJersey.com in the United States) Marie Carina desperately wants to exercise her right to vote, but every November, she faces barriers. Just navigating to the polls is difficult for Carina, who is disabled and relies on a wheelchair. “The last time, it took me a while to find the accessible route,” she said. “I had trouble […]

The B.C. Teachers Union is concerned the teacher shortage is affecting special needs students

Global News October 23, 2017 The union representing B.C.’s teachers is worried about the impact the teacher shortage is having on student learning this far into the school year. B.C Teachers Federation President Glen Hansman says students who are in need, are collateral damage because ESL and special-education teachers are asked to fill the role […]

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Sense and Debility: How disability figures in progressive social policy with Dr. Catherine Frazee (by video) on November 28, 2016 5:30 pm
International Day of Persons with Disabilities Film Festival and Cool Arts Society Holiday Bazaar on December 3, 2016 1:30 pm
Wingspan Grand Opening on October 19, 2017 - October 21, 2017
United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities Film Festival on December 3, 2017 1:00 pm
Luminescence – Chanteuse to the Power of Three on March 8, 2018 7:30 pm
BC Leadership Institute on Developmental Disabilities on May 14, 2018 - May 18, 2018

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Message from Co-Director Dr. Rachelle Hole, June 2017

It’s hard to believe that 8 years have passed since the opening of the Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship at UBC. Tim mentioned that the CIC is the only university-based research centre in Canada with a dedicated focus on intellectual and developmental disability. I think it is also noteworthy and rare that we are also […]

Message from Co-Director Dr. Tim Stainton – June 2017

This report marks the eighth year the Centre has been going and, despite struggles to find core funding to keep the doors open, we continue to grow and develop as Canada’s only university based research Centre with an exclusive focus on social policy and issues concerned with the full inclusion and citizenship of people with […]

2017 Report

We are pleased to share our 2017 Report, highlighting activities since we hosted the International Claiming Full Citizenship conference in October 2015. we would welcome a conversation with you should you have any questions about our work or if you would like to discuss a potential partnership opportunity. CIC-report2017

CIC is a partner orgainzation of the IASSIDD Academy on Education, Teaching and Research

The International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities ( IASSIDD) Academy on Education, Teaching and Research Mission:To set up and to provide education and training experiences in the form of workshops, courses, seminars, and lectures. The Academy may also offer hands-on consultation. The Academy particularly strives to: Further the knowledge of […]

About the Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship

The Centre was created to meet an identified need to conduct research to influence and inform policy and practice through research, learning and knowledge exchange. The CIC is Canada’s only university based research centre with a dedicated focus on intellectual disability policy and practice.

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Transitioning Youth with Disabilities and Employment – TYDE

Tim Stainton Awarded IASSIDD Fellowship Status

Inclusive Employment Mapping Tool

LEARNING

KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE

RESEARCH