Disability advocacy groups appeal for easier guidelines, process, to apply for funding

More than 150 organizations across the county, including Inclusion Lethbridge, urging Ottawa to build a rights-based approach to defining disability. 

The groups are asking the federal government to better clarify application requirements and remove existing barriers and unneccessary red tape. 

“The application is challenging, so many people don’t apply, who should apply,” Inclusion Lethbridge past president Bruce MacKay points out.

“And because they haven’t applied, they miss out on some of the supports, federal and provincial, that are available to help.”