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Community Programs

Measuring Up

Accessibility and Inclusion for People With Disabilities
Kamloops Measuring Up believes that communities work best when everyone has the opportunity to participate.

This means:

  • Removing barriers and obstacles that make it difficult or impossible for people with disabilities to have full access to our community;
  • People with disabilities feeling welcome and included;
  • People with disabilities being included in the process.

Our Goals:

  1. To assess the degree to which our citizens with disabilities are active participants in community life.
  2. To identify gaps in service through an evaluation process.
  3. To identify and bring together the resources in our community

Our Definition of a Disability
A disability refers to challenges and limitations related to hearing, seeing, speaking, moving around, learning or coping. Disabilities can be visible or invisible, short-term or long-term.

Mandate
Formed as a 2010 Legacies Now project, the mandate of the Measuring Up Steering Committee is to work as a team, to the best of our ability and with the resources available to us, in partnership with interested parties and key stakeholders to foster the development of a city that is fully accessible and inclusive.

Principles That Will Drive Our Work

  • Nothing About Us Without Us" - citizens with disabilities will be an active part of our work
  • We will work inclusively and collaboratively
  • Our commitment is to the Measuring Up Goals not our personal or other hats or agendas as persons with disabilities or as persons with an interest in their issues
  • We will strive for open, two way communication with respect for all and their views
  • There will be freedom to speak, to be listened to
  • We will think globally while acting locally
  • Accessibility to us means the absence of barriers (human, fiscal and physical)

Contact
Jennifer Casorso
Social Development Supervisor
910 McGill Road
Kamloops, BC V2C 6N6
ph 250-828-3758
email jcasorso@kamloops.ca

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