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About canWAPSS

Our services and initiatives:

Our services and initiatives include the following…

  • Advocacy and support for individual post-secondary students with disabilities
  • Advocacy and support for student groups that advocate on behalf of post-secondary students with disabilities
  • Advisory and consulting for student services offices, administrators, faculty, staff, community organizations and others

Disability awareness workshops focused around issues such as:

  • The types of barriers experienced by post-secondary students with disabilities
  • Strengthening self-advocacy for post-secondary students with disabilities
  • Leadership development within the post-secondary students with disabilities movement and the mainstream disability movement strategic planning around barrier removal to increase accessibility and inclusion for post-secondary students with disabilities
  • Event and campaign planning and organizing around issues that impact post-secondary students with disabilities

Our annual Breaking Down Barriers Conference brings people together to discuss barriers experienced by post-secondary students with disabilities and to strategize around how to remove such barriers

Our annual Simply People:Celebrating Our Lives & Our Identities event to bring the broader disability community together in a celebratory march, followed by performers and speakers

canWAPSS
2007 Simply People Event
Date:
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007 - 5:30PM to 8:30PM
Location:
Nathan Philips Square (Toronto City Hall)
Speakers & Performers: :

David Onley (City TV), Toronto City Councillor Adrian Heaps, Emma Cook and band, Libby Thaw, singer Christina Doyle, narrative non-fiction writer Julie Devaney, DJ Ken, and an inclusive dance performance by Limitless.