Out of the Margins is a community-engaged research project and preliminary case study that explores parental disability status, precarious work, and family poverty in British Columbia. The project is led by the UBC School of Social Work and the Centre for Family Equity, with a current case study with ten families funded by Understanding Precarity in BC (UP-BC), led by SFU and the BC Society for Policy Solutions. 

Led and shaped by trained peer researchers with lived experience, the study engages parents and caregivers living with disabilities, their partners, and youth, and takes place in Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island in BC. The study conducts interviews with parents and caregivers living with a disability, the partners of parents living with a disability (whether live-in or live-out), and youth 14-18 living in a household with a parent with a disability, to examine how disability related policies, labour market accessibility, and other issues impact partnering, household income, and holistic family health and well-being in households where one or more adult receives a provincial disability assistance income in BC.

Please access the official recruitment letter to sign up to join the Out of the Margins project here. 

To access the sign-up form directly, please click here.