And the last for that section was a priority so again more funding to DIO in order to fully implement mandate, mandated, with the AMA, sorry. Lucia: Next up is Lillian's table. Table #6: Lillian Shaw Okay for the development process, we there's not nearly enough awareness of the standards development and implementation, unless you're involved. We think that it seems like a pretty slow process with delays, and not really sure why, many not at all aware that they have to do the full implementation of the standard by November 1st. There's a huge lack of communication. Okay. The SMD [Society for Manitobans with Disabilities] is doing a train the trainer program tomorrow, as well as other days, and they'll be able to go out to different organizations and businesses and teach them the standard. MLPD [Manitoban League for Persons with Disabilities] also has a consultation business and supports to help create the accessibility policies, as well as the customer service standard. We think that there needs to be communication between all of the different stakeholders. We there's a giant concern that smaller and not for profit businesses that don't have HR [Human Resources] departments are going to be able to effectively develop and implement their policies. We think that they all need support and tools to meet the deadlines on development and implementation, and a lot more clarity is needed. In terms of implementation, we think that the province should be doing a lot more promotion of the existing services like SMD and MLPD do to enable the implementation. There isn't really a cookie cutter approach, different people with different forms of disabilities are going to need a lot of different accommodations and we're concerned that a lot of people don't know if and what they're going to be expecting. We think that this is going to be a movement forward to Manitoba being a lot more inclusive and it's really important and critical that legislation that a
And the last for that section was a priority so again more funding to DIO in order to fully implement mandate, mandated, with the AMA, sorry. Lucia: Next up is Lillian's table. Table #6: Lillian Shaw Okay for the development process, we there's not nearly enough awareness of the standards development and implementation, unless you're involved. We think that it seems like a pretty slow process with delays, and not really sure why, many not at all aware that they have to do the full implementation of the standard by November 1st. There's a huge lack of communication. Okay. The SMD [Society for Manitobans with Disabilities] is doing a train the trainer program tomorrow, as well as other days, and they'll be able to go out to different organizations and businesses and teach them the standard. MLPD [Manitoban League for Persons with Disabilities] also has a consultation business and supports to help create the accessibility policies, as well as the customer service standard. We think that there needs to be communication between all of the different stakeholders. We there's a giant concern that smaller and not for profit businesses that don't have HR [Human Resources] departments are going to be able to effectively develop and implement their policies. We think that they all need support and tools to meet the deadlines on development and implementation, and a lot more clarity is needed. In terms of implementation, we think that the province should be doing a lot more promotion of the existing services like SMD and MLPD do to enable the implementation. There isn't really a cookie cutter approach, different people with different forms of disabilities are going to need a lot of different accommodations and we're concerned that a lot of people don't know if and what they're going to be expecting. We think that this is going to be a movement forward to Manitoba being a lot more inclusive and it's really important and critical that legislation that a
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