{"id":82379,"date":"2022-12-02T12:04:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T17:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=82379"},"modified":"2022-12-02T16:27:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T21:27:27","slug":"accessibility-inclusion-champions-to-be-honoured-at-event-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/12\/accessibility-inclusion-champions-to-be-honoured-at-event-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessibility, inclusion champions to be honoured at event next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Brock University community is invited to celebrate diversity and inclusion at an event marking International Day for Persons with Disabilities.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8220;Engaging and Celebrating with Disability Communities&#8221; will take place Wednesday, Dec. 7 from noon to 2 p.m. in Pond Inlet. It will feature a presentation by Nathan Shipley, a disability self-advocate, activist and public speaker; interactive roundtable experiences with disability community members; and the announcement and recognition of this year\u2019s recipients of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/human-rights\/accessibility\/inclusion-recognition-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Brock\u2019s Accessibility and Inclusion Recognition Award<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Organized in collaboration with the Office of Human Rights and Equity, the Brock-Niagara Centre of Excellence in Inclusive and Adaptive Physical Activity, and the Anti-Ableism and Mental Health (AAMH) Committee, which is a w<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">orking group of the President\u2019s Advisory Committee on Human Rights, Equity and Decolonization, <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">t<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">he event will be held in recognition of International Day for Persons with Disabilities, which is marked annually by the United Nations on<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0Dec. 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">RSVP is not required to attend. Fo<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">r more information, please contact Maureen Connolly, Kinesiology Professor and Chair of AAMH, a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">t <\/span><a href=\"mailto:mconnolly@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">mconnolly@brocku.ca<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">To learn more about accessibility and inclusion at Brock, visit the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/human-rights\/accessibility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Human Rights and Equity website<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. The Brock University Library has also curated a<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/ocul-bu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/discovery\/collectionDiscovery?vid=01OCUL_BU:BU_DEFAULT&amp;collectionId=81146435840005152\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">collection of print books, e-books and films on disability and chronic illness<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Questions can be directed to <\/span><a href=\"mailto:accessibility@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">accessibility@brocku.ca<\/span><\/a> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">or 905-688-5550 x4859.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock University community is invited to celebrate diversity and inclusion at an event marking International Day for Persons with Disabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,7,4],"tags":[96,7142,4597,9631,2701,10685,10784,12246,703,2085,2582,10993,3928,6841,8219],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82379"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82399,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82379\/revisions\/82399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}