2026 Inclusion Alberta Family Conference

This annual session will explore the advocacy issues and trends currently impacting individuals and families, discuss needed responses, and provide practical ways to take immediate action, the need for which has never been more clear. 
  
In just a few years, many of Alberta’s supports and services to children and adults with intellectual disabilities have been eroded and families and persons with disabilities find themselves under constant attack with the public seemingly unaware or unconcerned. The usual advocacy strategies which served us well in the past are no longer effective and hope and resiliency are at increasing risk without new forms of collective and individual action. Times have changed and consequently our actions have to change.  
  
During this session we will explore and act on some possible advocacy strategies required today and the actions all of us must take to combat the systemic assault on children and adults with intellectual disabilities and their families.