York Region is pleased to present Access-ability: York Region's 2009 Accessibility Plan. It lists accomplishments made in 2008 and explains how individual departments are identifying, removing and preventing barriers in their core businesses now and in the future.
Detailed individual department accessibility plans, which are included in this plan, describe initiatives from every regional department including York Regional Police and incorporate all regional businesses, programs, services, facilities, policies, practices, bylaws and procedures.
Our goal is not only to remove visible barriers, but also to identify and remove invisible barriers, which might be communicational, attitudinal, informational or technological. Barriers to accessibility might also be rooted in an organization's policies or practices. We address the needs of people with a broad range of disabilities: physical, sensory, cognitive disabilities and mental illness.
As in previous years, the initiatives are arranged into the aspects of life that impact people with disabilities:
 1. Helping people live independently
2. Making it easier to move around the Region
3. Making regional services more accessible
4. Making it easier to participate in regional government
5. Changing attitudes and raising awareness.
This summary highlights some of our 2008 accomplishments and outlines how we plan to promote 'Access-ability' in 2009. |
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