INCLUSION NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY
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Mission Statement
Inclusion Nova Scotia is a provincial not-for-profit organization committed to ensuring that individuals with intellectual disabilities and their families have the support they require to live full and inclusive lives in community. We do this by empowering and supporting individuals and families, promoting rights and values in keeping with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), encouraging reform, and collaborating with other organizations for social justice.
About This Cause
Formally created in 1958 Inclusion Nova Scotia is a provincial, family focused, non-profit organization that works with, and on behalf of, individuals with intellectual disabilities and their families. Dedicated staff, board members and volunteers work toward attaining full participation in community life and ending exclusion and discrimination on the basis of intellectual disability. Since its establishment, Inclusion Nova Scotia’s major focus has been one of effecting change, and to date has been successful in gaining positive movement towards inclusion of persons with intellectual disabilities and their families in all aspects of the community. We remain committed to ensuring that individuals with intellectual disabilities and their families have the support they require to live full and inclusive lives in community. WHAT WE DO Promote the rights and values of people with disabilities in keeping with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD); Build awareness of the capacity and value of people with intellectual disabilities as full, contributing citizens while challenging myths and preconceptions about individuals with disabilities; Empower and support individuals and families to become leaders for inclusion and equality; Create resources that support inclusion at home, in the workplace, at school, and in the community; Collaborate with other organizations to encourage social justice reform; Advance policies and practices to government and community organizations that enable and promote the full inclusion of persons with intellectual disabilities in all facets of community life.