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Inclusive Humanity is your best source for news, opinions, and issues related to disability, inclusion, and social justice.  We aspire to be a place of information, inspiration and perspective for families, professionals, advocates and organizations.  For families we hope to be place for sharing, commentary, and mutual support.

For organizations we want to be source of inspiration and practical tools for creating supports for citizens with disabilities that truly reflects their imperative contributions to community.  We provide training, consulting, workshops and information sessions on organizational and strategic planning, inclusive initiatives and social messaging for organizations that support vulnerable people.

Stay tuned for the latest news that affects all citizens with disabilities and the people in their lives.  We will provide comprehensive commentary and dissect complicated issues that matter to our followers.  We welcome feedback, questions, and suggestions as we develop articles and resources that will get to the centre of the issues facing Canadians with disabilities.

About Our Editor and Chief Story Teller 

Krista Flint, Chief Storyteller

Krista Flint has spent 15 years in the field of inclusion and disability culture. She is passionate about social justice and its subsequent lack of resonance in the lives of Canadians.

Recent recognition of her expertise has been realized through the development of a partnership with the Canadian Association of Genetic Counsellors and the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada in the creation of a value neutral language bank which will facilitate the provision of fair and balanced information about Down syndrome in both the pre and postnatal setting, and in the promotion of National Prenatal Legislation.

She is widely published in the disability and mainstream literature, including both of Canada’s national newspapers. She has also co-authored the recent Canadian Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology article entitled Prenatal Screening for Fetal Aneuploidy: A Commentary by the Canadian Down Syndrome Society.

She is very well connected in the disability community and is an active member of The Belonging Initiative a pan-Canadian initiative, which seeks to eliminate isolation and loneliness in the lives of Canadians with developmental disabilities.

Social marketing is an area where Krista has a proven track record of success. She was responsible for the creation of the Alberta based social marketing initiative Everyone Belongs. She also undertook a complete a re-branding of the Canadian Down Syndrome Society in 2006 and stewarded the creation of the Award Winning Documentary “Then and Now” highlighting the advancements in equity that has been forwarded by self-advocacy in Canada. Krista’s work in plain language and the accessibility of information has received critical international acclaim.

Krista is a highly sought after public speaker and has been a presenter at the Canadian Roundtables on the Ratification on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. She was also a presenter at the World Down Syndrome Congress in Dublin in 2009 on “Value Neutral Language in the Prenatal Setting as it Relates to a Determination of Down Syndrome”. She has given this presentation in nearly every province and territory in Canada in Children’s Hospitals, neonatal settings, high-risk pregnancy counselling programs, and general hospitals in-person or through tele-health.

She has extensive experience in curriculum creation and facilitation as she has created countless models and workshops for training in the areas of Social Marketing, Social Justice, New Parent Training, and the Power Differential Evidenced in Paid Service Delivery Models. She was a participant and group leader in the Canadian Association of Human Rights Agencies Summit on Defining a Rights Based Framework on Inclusive Education.

In the arena of policy and regulatory advocacy, Krista is a graduate of the Wilberforce Program through the Manning Centre for Democracy in Ottawa, and is a member of the Canadian Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. She was seconded to create and facilitate a training module on Social Justice, Inclusion and the Vulnerability of the Disabled in Service delivery Systems, as a result of a Fatality Inquiry within Manitoba Child Protective Services.

Krista’s recent paper – The Chasm Between Diagnosis and Intervention – A Closer Look at the Dual Diagnosis of Developmental Disabilities and Mental Illness, was showcased as the keynote presentation in the July 2009 Forum at The First Canadian Health Care Conference.

Krista is a Mom, an advocate, a writer, and a thankful participant in the Disability Rights Community. She counts people with developmental disabilities as her greatest teachers, and she has been honoured to walk with citizens with disabilities and their families for her entire adult life. She has been the Executive Director of a National Disability Organization, a Manager of Social Marketing, a Director of Employment and Community Development, a leader and creator of Inclusive Education Programs, she has worked as a behaviour modification specialist, and lived with citizens in groups homes in Canada.

Krista lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with her husband Craig and three growing boys who are coming to understand their responsibility to each other and to the global community. Oliver, Simon and Charlie are her greatest accomplishments.