For over 25 years, Reach has accumulated a wealth of expertise, experience and knowledge. Much of this relates to content about disability, jurisprudence, and process for change at the community level. These resources have been organized in a practical fashion to be shared with anyone or any community that has a need to know. They are listed and linked below.

• Reach—The Canadian Experience
  
  
• Understanding Disability
  
  
• A Personal Guide for Building a Reach-type Organization
  
  
• The Reach/Snowbirds Literacy Poster Project — A Template for Collaboration
  
  
• Reach PowerPoint Presentations
  • Promoting the Reach Model
  • Reach Primer on Literacy and Disability
    
    
• With the support of the Department of Justice, Reach now, is undertaking a project called Equality In Practice to improve accommodation, access and participation by persons with disabilities in the Canadian justice system.
  

Although Reach is committed to sharing expertise and information on a daily basis, they also host an annual national conference to deal with emerging or persistent problem identified by people with disabilities.  Some issues, such as AIDS, employment equity, and safety for women with disabilities are noted in publications and conference proceedings available from Reach. Publications and proceedings of the following conferences are available electronically.

• Law Schools and Students with Disabilities
  
  
  • A Framework for Action (PDF)
    
    
  • Navigating Law School and Beyond (PDF) (HTML)
    
    
  • Promoting Disability Accommodation in Legal Education and Training: The Continuing relevance of the Lepofsky Recommendations (HTML) (PDF)
    
    
  • Advancing Professional Opportunities and Employment Accommodation for Lawyers and Other Law Graduates Who Have Disabilities (PDF)
    
    
    
• Mental Health The Law And You (PDF)
  Reach Canada has produced a video explaining Mental Health Legislation with American Sign Language and captioning for deaf and hard of hearing individuals.  This overview is based on The Ontario Mental Health Act.  An accompanying guide explains the act in more detail and includes variations in all provinces and territories.  Agencies can order it from Reach for $70.00 (incl. S & H), individuals for $35.00.
  If you wish to order a copy(s) please click here FORM
  
  
  
• Is Work Working? work Laws that Do a Better Job
  Discussion Paper by the Law Commission Of Canada that aims to identify the gaps in our laws and policies that leave some workers unprotected and vulnerable-outside the "umbrella".
  for HTML and PDF please click the following link: http://www.lcc.gc.ca/research_project/er/tvw/dp/2004_dis_paper_b-en.asp
  
  
• An Unequal Playing Field: Report on the Needs of People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired Living in Canada: Published by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB)  MS Word    PDF 
  
  

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for seminars proceedings please click here