Disability Justice

Inability to find meaningful work that I can sustain with my disabilities has honestly been the biggest challenge.

-Listening Campaign 2025 participant

Disability justice is a vital framework in all work to end family poverty. Disability justice goes beyond legal rights or access—it calls for collective care, interdependence, and the dismantling of ableism alongside racism, sexism, classism, and other forms of systemic oppression.

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.

Related Work

Out of the Margins +

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.

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News

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Joint Letter on Access to Activities for Equity-Deserving Families Sent to Minister of Citizens' Services

Joint letter with the BC Alliance for Healthy Living sent to the Minister of Citizens' Services addresses barriers to accessing physical activities for equity-seeking families.

Our Active Kids BC community engagement findings shape the Physical Activity for Health Collaborative's "Consultation with Equity-Deserving and Less Active Families Engagement Report."

Centre for Family Equity's Active Kids BC community engagement findings shape the Physical Activity for Health Collaborative's "Consultation with Equity-Deserving and Less Active Families Engagement Report."

Healing Forward Fall 2025 Intake Open

Healing Forward is now selecting participants for our Fall 2025 cohort. Are you struggling while accessing BC's family law system? Join us for healing and support in a group setting.

Reports

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Joint letter with the BC Alliance for Health Living addresses barriers to accessing physical activities for equity-seeking families

Joint letter to Minister of Citizens' Services with the BC Alliance for Health Living addresses barriers to accessing physical activities for equity-seeking families.

2025 Listening Campaign Charts Strategic Direction for the CFE

A Listening Campaign is a form of community engagement we carry out with our members to build community, mobilize engagement, identify concerns and priorities, and chart CFE's strategic direction.

Submission

Letter to Ministry of Transportation and Transit and TransLink in Support of TransLink Insourcing HandyDART Services

The CFE supports the full insourcing of HandyDART services to ensure quality services for those impacted by mobility issues and family-supporting BC-based jobs in an important step towards a fully public transit in BC.