M. Miller's List: Advocacy - Tools for Change

• Issue: Local Laws, Ordinances, and Regulations
• City governments may fail to consider reasonable modifications  in local laws, ordinances, and regulations that would avoid discrimination  against individuals with disabilities.
• Laws, ordinances, and regulations that appear to be neutral  often adversely impact individuals with disabilities. For example,  where a municipal zoning ordinance requires a set-back of 12  feet from the curb in the central business district, installing  a ramp to ensure access for people who use wheelchairs may be  impermissible without a variance from the city. People with disabilities  are therefore unable to gain access to businesses in the city.
• City governments are required to make reasonable modifications  to policies, practices, or procedures to prevent discrimination  on the basis of disability. Reasonable modifications can include  modifications to local laws, ordinances, and regulations that  adversely impact people with disabilities. For example, it may  be a reasonable modification to grant a variance for zoning requirements  and setbacks.
• Issue: Law Enforcement Policies, Practices, and Procedures

• When dealing with persons with disabilities, law enforcement  agencies often fail to modify policies, practices, or procedures  in a variety of law enforcement settings -- including citizen  interaction, detention, and arrest procedures.

    
• Title II of the ADA requires law enforcement agencies to make  reasonable modifications in their policies, practices, or procedures  that are necessary to ensure accessibility for individuals with  disabilities,
• aw enforcement officers  should be prepared to make reasonable modifications,

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• held in aid of Lou Hammond,  an artist who lives with chronic illness.
• WOW (Women On Wellness)
• “She’s on a disability income, and does not have a lot of money to help herself and her living conditions are not that great. Her friends want to help her.
• Hammond used to have an active life.
• A recreational pilot, she flew a Citabria light airplane and worked as a heavy equipment operator, support worker, industrial courier, and clerk for a control tower in Inuvik. She was also heavily involved in many sports and rode motorcycles.
• With the loss of her health, Hammond says she has been living a “half measure life,” resulting in frequent surgeries and emergency trips to hospital.
• struggling with pain, exhaustion, fatigue and a life largely determined by the state of her body on any given day.
• “My ongoing condition has entailed many trips to the hospital and heavily affected my involvement in life as I tire easily and spend a lot of time in bed. I would really like to feel better, and I would really love to have the energy to do art again,” said Hammond.
• naturopath
• require funds.

• A trust account for Hammond has also been set up with the Lumby Scotiabank.

   

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