Inability to find meaningful work that I can sustain with my disabilities has honestly been the biggest challenge.
-Listening Campaign 2025 participant
Disability justice centers the experiences of those most impacted by injustice and affirms that all bodies—minds and ways of being—are worthy and whole.
For families impacted by poverty, both disability and chronic health conditions are often caused by inequality and worsened by the condition of poverty. This is one of the reasons why disability justice is core to our work.
CFE members impacted by disability and our Disability Justice Advisory Committee lead and shape our advocacy and work in the area of disability justice.
Out of the Margins is a community-engaged research project led by UBC and the Centre for Family Equity, funded by the Understanding Precarity project (UP-BC) led by SFU and the BC Society for Policy Solutions that explores the intersecting impacts of parental disability status, precarious work, and family poverty in British Columbia. Co-led by peer researchers with lived experience, the study engages parents with disabilities and their families in two regions in BC through interviews and focus groups to examine how social stigma, inadequate income support, provincial income and work-related policies related to disability assistance, and unstable work affect family well-being and child and youth poverty. With a strong focus on disability justice and intersectionality, the project aims to generate actionable insights for policy change and public understanding, culminating in community-informed reports, advocacy tools, and public education initiatives.
We are launching our research brief focused on low-income youth and access to transportation.
We hope you can join us for the third in a series of online training sessions in our Decolonizing Workshop Series.
The Centre for Family Equity is launching our research brief Mobility at a Cost: Barriers to Transportation Access for Low-Income Rural and Urban Youth in BC and Pathways to Equity.
Our November 2025 joint letter with Disability Alliance BC and BC Poverty Reduction Coalition to fully remove the spousal cap for people receiving disability assistance
Our follow-up letter to the Minister of Education and Child Care.
