2014 disability consultation submissions
The 2014 public consultation was designed to ensure people had multiple opportunities and ways to participate – to ensure everyone had the chance to have their say.
All submissions, including Conversation Toolkits and other submissions from groups and organizations, emails, phone messages, mail submissions, ASL messages and social media, received during the Disability White Paper consultation have been thoroughly reviewed.
Emails, phone messages and mail submissions
We received over 325 submissions by email and regular mail (DOC, 523KB) over the course of the consultation process, as well as phone messages (DOC, 17KB).
Social media
Social media, such as Twitter, was used to promote the consultation process and engage with different groups. The #disabilitybc hash tag was used in over 1,100 tweets (DOC, 25KB) over the course of the consultation.
Submissions from groups and organizations
Over 60 submissions were received from groups and organizations around the province. The effort, energy and passion put into the preparation of these submissions was greatly appreciated.
- Abilities Alliance (DOC, 8.7MB)
- Access Association of Disabled Students (submission 1) (DOC, 15KB)
- Access Association of Disabled Students (submission 2) (DOC, 35KB)
- Access for Sight-Impaired Consumers (DOC, 308KB)
- Access Oceanside Association (DOC, 10.8MB)
- Advanced Listening Systems (DOC, 173KB)
- Agur Lake Camp Society (DOC, 21KB)
- BC Blind Sports and Recreation Association (DOC, 19KB)
- BC Coastal Transportation Society (DOC, 16KB)
- BC Hands and Voices (DOC, 435KB)
- British Columbia Public Interest Advocacy Centre (DOC, 51KB)
- BC Schizophrenia Society – Victoria Branch (DOC, 24KB)
- Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion (BACI) Advocacy Committee (DOC, 30KB)
- Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists – British Columbia (CAOT-BC) (DOC, 256KB)
- Canadian Hard of Hearing Association (CHHA) Comox Valley Branch (DOC, 27KB)
- Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association Inc. (CLHIA) (DOC, 565KB)
- Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) BC Division and CMHA Vancouver-Burnaby (DOC, 105KB)
- Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), Shuswap-Revelstoke (DOC, 18KB)
- Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) British Columbia-Yukon (DOC, 35KB)
- Canadian Red Cross (DOC, 90KB)
- Centre for Inclusion and Citizenship (DOC 1.8MB)
- Cineplex Entertainment (DOC, 43KB)
- City of Vancouver Persons with Disabilities Advisory Committee (DOC, 174KB)
- Civil Rights Now! (DOC, 12KB)
- Community Connections (Revelstoke) Society (DOC, 224KB)
- Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS) (DOC, 82KB)
- CONNECT (submission 1) (DOC, 56KB)
- CONNECT (submission 2) (DOC, 303KB)
- Department of Access for Students with Disabilities, North Island College (DOC, 26KB)
- Disability Without Poverty Network (DWPN) (DOC, 208KB)
- Disappearance of Human Rights in BC (DOC, 58KB)
- District of Sechelt’s Advisory Committee on Accessibility (DOC, 27KB)
- Family Network for Deaf Children (FNDC) (DOC, 102KB)
- Greater Vancouver Association of the Deaf (DOC, 146KB)
- Inclusion BC (DOC, 2.5MB)
- Island Deaf and Hard of Hearing Centre (IDHHC) (DOC, 102KB)
- Jane Doe Legal Network (DOC, 17KB)
- Lifetime Networks – Being a Citizen Program (DOC, 28KB)
- March of Dimes Canada (DOC, 48KB)
- Movie Theatre Association of Canada (DOC, 73KB)
- North Shore Advisory Committee on Disability Issues (DOC, 18KB)
- North Shore Disability Resource Centre (DOC, 26KB)
- Pacific South Western Advocates (DOC, 57KB)
- Pacific Training Centre for the Blind (DOC, 35KB)
- Peers for Mental Wellness Advocacy Group, Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) Kelowna (submission 1) (DOC, 41KB)
- Peers for Mental Wellness Advocacy Group, Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) Kelowna (submission 2) (DOC, 23KB)
- People In Motion (DOC, 31KB)
- Planned Lifetime Advocacy Networks (PLAN) Society (DOC, 17KB)
- Provincial Advisory Committee to the Board of Directors of Community Living British Columbia (DOC, 158KB)
- Provincial Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services (DOC, 234KB)
- Public Guardian and Trustee (DOC, 13 KB)
- Queen Alexandra Centre for Children’s Health (DOC, 396KB)
- Quesnel Multiple Sclerosis Self-help Group (DOC, 22KB)
- Raise the Rates (DOC, 14KB)
- Rick Hansen Foundation (DOC, 52KB)
- Shared Vision (DOC, 12KB)
- Shared Vision (Reference document 1) (DOC, 101KB)
- Shared Vision (Reference document 2) (DOC, 855KB)
- Social Planning and Research Council of British Columbia (SPARC BC) (DOC, 42KB)
- Social Planning and Research Council of British Columbia (SPARC BC) – Gathering Place Event (DOC, 30KB)
- South Okanagan Similkameen Brain Injury Society (DOC, 16KB)
- Spinal Cord Injury Organization of BC (DOC, 903KB)
- Terrace and District Community Services Society (DOC, 79KB)
- Together Against Poverty Society (TAPS) (DOC, 96KB)
- ViaSport British Columbia (DOC, 2.5MB)
- VocalEye Descriptive Arts Society (DOC, 101KB)
- West Coast Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) (DOC, 36KB)
- Western Institute for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (WIDHH) (DOC, 967KB)