Resources: Disability Links

Resources

Canadian Paraplegic Association (CPA)
The CPA has a searchable data base of what is accessible or not in Nova Scotia. It has over 1000 entries on the site. It is ideal for members of many organizations and even the general public.

EnableLink
Linking people with disabilities to a world of resources.

Human Resource Development Canada
Information on action taken by the Government of Canada and its partners to help persons with disabilities.

reachAbility
reachAbility is a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that quality legal and social representation is provided to persons living with disabilities.

National Institute of Disability Management and Research
The National Institute of Disability Management and Research is committed to reducing the human, social and economic cost of disability to workers, employers and society through education, training and research.

Disability Weblinks
A 'Search' web site.

Business Development Bank of Canada
The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) is Canada's small business bank. BDC plays a leadership role in delivering timely and relevant financial and management services, with a particular focus on the emerging and exporting sectors of the economy. The BDC's services are available across Canada in both English and French through a network of more than 80 branches, and its head office in Montreal.

Job Access
The goal of Job Access is to enable people with disabilities to enhance their professional lives by providing a dedicated system for finding employment. By posting job opportunities with JobAccess, employers not only exhibit an open door policy but also demonstrate their responsiveness to affirmative action by genuinely recruiting qualified persons with disabilities.

The Directory of Programs and Services for Persons with Disabilities in Nova Scotia
The Directory of Programs and Services for Persons with Disabilities in Nova Scotia was compiled by the Nova Scotia Disabled Persons Commission. There are a number of key programs and services of benefit to persons with disabilities in Nova Scotia and is pleased to provide this program directory and contact/mailing list.

Training Resource Network
The TRC has conducted many presentations, demonstrations, workshops and inservices. Consultants have facilitated teaching and learning sessions, collaborated through consultations, assessments and networking while providing extensive resource and reference materials. An assistive technology loan program has also allowed consumers and professionals to move towards a better "planning and decision making" process through "best practices" that encourages appropriate, functional and cost effective technology interventions.

Disability Management Edge
To provide the tools and information required to reduce the human, social and economic cost of disability to workers, employers and society. Disability Management Edge offers a variety of information tools and services designed to help support and enhance workplace-based integration programs.

WORKinc.
WORKinc mission is to facilitate communication and provide resources and information to enhance equitable and meaningful employment of people with disabilities. Provincial Organization links and Nova Scotia links.

NS Net
Linking Citizens in Nova Scotia to Resources that Promote Active Healthy Independent Living in our Communities. The Community Organization Network represents community organizations in Nova Scotia that serve citizens of all ages facing disability and health challenges. This project is supported by the Kings Regional Rehabilitation Centre and its Community Support Services program. The Technical Resource Centre provides technical support in developing content and managing this web site services for not-for-profit community organizations.

Canadian National Institute for the Blind
CNIB services are designed to help blind and visually impaired people adjust to loss of sight, enabling them to live independently. Any person who is experiencing functional visual difficulties is eligible for CNIB services.

Diversity World
They try to reduce any barriers that prevent people from flourishing in their livelihoods.

Canadian Mental Health Association
The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) exists to promote the mental health of all people and to serve mental health consumers, their families and friends. They run programs that assists employment, housing, early intervention for youth, peer support and recreation services for people with mental illness, stress reduction workshops and public education campaigns for the community.

Canadian Learning Disabilities Association
The Learning Disabilities Association of Canada is dedicated to advance the education, employment, social development, legal rights and general well-being of people with learning disabilities.

Canadian Association for Community Living
The Canadian Association for Community Living is Canada's national association dedicated to promoting the participation of people with intellectual disabilities in all aspects community life.

Disabled Peoples' International
The purpose of Disabled Peoples' International (DPI) is to promote the Human Rights of People with Disabilities through full participation, equalization of opportunity and development. DPI is a grassroot, cross-disability network with member organizations in over 158 countries, over half of which are in the developing world.

Administration on Developmental Disabilities - American
The Administration on Developmental Disabilities ensures that individuals with developmental disabilities and their families participate in the design of and have access to culturally competent services, supports, and other assistance and opportunities that promotes independence, productivity, and integration and inclusion into the community.

National Council on Disability - American
The National Council on Disability's overall purpose is to promote policies, programs, practices, and procedures that guarantee equal opportunity for all individuals with disabilities, regardless of the nature or severity of the disability; and to empower individuals with disabilities to achieve economic self-sufficiency, independent living, and inclusion and integration into all aspects of society.

Community ACCESS-Ability
The Community ACCESS-ability Program is one way the Government of Nova Scotia is demonstrating its commitment to equal opportunity and improving access to community facilities and venues for persons with disabilities. Under this program, funds are available for cost shared grants to community groups for accessibility related capital improvements.

Employment Incentive Program (EIP) - Nova Scotia Workers' Compensation Board
Using a variety of technical and financial incentives, EIP is designed to help employers stay competitive, while giving workers who have been injured on the job a chance to once again make a productive contribution to their lives, their families and their province.

On-the-Job Training - Nova Scotia Workers' Compensation Board
The WCB's strategy is to provide an effective administration in order to co-ordinate all partners in the workers' compensation system to focus their efforts on building a healthy, working Nova Scotia. The mission is to assist injured workers and their employers by providing timely medical and rehabilitative support to facilitate the efforts of injured workers to return to work; and to provide appropriate compensation for work-related disabilities.

Disability Database - Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada maintains records on the prevalence of disability in Canada and the impact of disability on the life of Canadians with disabilities. Topics included in these records are: information on the existence, nature and severity of disability; the use of technical aids and services; data on persons with disabilities such as demographic, household, labour force, employment, education, transportation, and income.