Mobilizing CDS Aims

Support movement of CDS perspectives and disability justice into non-CDS spaces.

• A non-CDS space is any space where people believe a critical perspective about disability is required but often missing, for example:

  • ​Academic programs (e.g., health professional programs; social service programs; and others such as social work, teacher education, library science).

  • Community spaces (e.g., local organizations led by disabled people) 

  • Supports and services (e.g., health, social, legal, housing, employment, food security).
     

Learn with and from one another.

• ​We connect students, community activists, and scholars across various settings, recognizing that everyone has important knowledge to contribute.

  • ​For example, community activists mentor and support those in academia, and academics mentor and support community members. In this way we build a community of support and learning for all. 
     

Develop, grow, and sustain collaborative and meaningful partnerships. 

• ​Equitable (e.g., ensuring the community benefits from community research, such as through positive community change and/or funding)  

• Reciprocal (e.g., community groups and scholars support each other)

• Relationship-building 

• Inclusive

• Process oriented

• Socially accountable (value people’s time, energy, expertise and compensate accordingly)

• Social change, etc.
   

Engage in activism with diverse disability communities.  

• ​Campaigns 

• Education

• Public scholarship 

• Protests, etc.
   

Co-create and share resources.