Our Nothing About Us Without Us: Empower U, Learn to Access Your Disability Rights webinars series has ended. Watch all ten Empower U webinars on-line.
More Empower U Webinars will be offered to people unable to attend a face-to-face session. The second webinar will focus on using human rights to challenge systemic institutionalization of persons with disabilities in Nova Scotia.
Date: Thursday, April 30 at 12 noon EDT
Speaker: Vince Calderhead, Human Rights Lawyer
Vince Calderhead has been a lawyer since 1986. In 2017, he joined Pink Larkin, a union-side labour law firm in Halifax, where he has a pro bono practice restricted to strategic anti-poverty litigation.
Vince’s presentation will focus on an eight-year battle to address the systemic discrimination experienced by people with disabilities in the area of their right to community living.
YOU MUST REGISTER IF YOU WANT TO ATTEND. ASL and closed captioning will be provided.