Someone living with a mental In the case of the legal system, a Not only do many of us face barri- health issue, for example, may need person’s disability isn’t their visual ers in the areas I just mentioned, a particular accommodation that is impairment, for example, but the there are deeply held assumptions different from what someone with a lack of services, personnel and re- and attitudes that. [...] The areas we focus on include: • Discrimination and human rights • Accommodation in the work- place • Financial assistance for people DABC’s Disability Law with disabilities, including gov-ernment disability assistance Clinic Marks Three Years and private long-term disability insurance Learn about the DLC and how the team is working to expand • Decision-making rights, in cases legal access for peo. [...] Our Core Services support from DABC, we navigated In exceptional cases, we can repre-Our office is in Vancouver, on the an abrupt transition to remote work sent clients in courts or tribunals, lands of the Musqueam, Tsleil- and then a much more gradual but unfortunately we don’t have Waututh, and Squamish Peoples, transition back to working from the enough resources to represent ev-but we can assi. [...] When we started up, our ability to What to Do Before Your travel around the province was lim- Appointment ited by the pandemic, but in recent To get the most out of your months we have regularly traveled call with Clinic staff, gather any to other parts of BC to represent cli- documents related to your situa- ents, provide public legal education tion beforehand, such as: or to connect with our par. [...] I constantly felt the In 2013, I switched to non-practice want to do the disability thing.” need to shave time off clients’ bills status to focus on my well-being The amount of time I needed to because I wasn’t sure how much and on finding my way to meaning- perform some tasks became a con- time another lawyer would take.
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