Invisible Institutions
Invisible Institutions is a three part project I developed for Inclusion Canada and People First of Canada’s Joint Taskforce on Deinstitutionalization.
Invisible Institutions is a new documentary podcast exploring the unreported and invisibilized harms of the institutional system. Through the podcast, I journey to the grounds of current and former institutions, interview survivors, community activists, and experts, as we work together to expose the exploitation, isolation, resistance and survival facing people labeled with disabilities.
Policy Briefs
The second phase of the project includes five policy briefs and plain-language summaries:
Long term care home usage for people labelled with intellectual and developmental disabilities
Heat waves and institutionalization policy
Disability income supports for institutionalized people
Federal disability data collection for institutionalized people
Internet access in institutions for people with disabilities
National Survey of Institutionalization
National report on the state and sites of institutionalization across Canada. Analysis of municipal, provincial, and federal disability institutional policy, COVID-19 impacts and visualizations. Forthcoming, March 2022.
Knowledge sharing
Social media shareable and infographics on the state of institutionalization across Canada.