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 JUDITH SNOW
email: judiths@ica.net
phone: 416-538-9344
Website: IAIC
Judith Snow, MA is a social inventor and an advocate for Inclusion - communities that welcome the participation of a wide diversity of people. Her work is recognized and sought after internationally.
Judith is a founding member and Associate of the Marsha Forest Centre. Judith and Marsha met at York University in 1978 and created a dynamic partnership that midwifed the Summer Get Together and the Integration Action Group. In 1983, along with Jack Pearpoint, John McKnight, John O'Brien and many others, Judith Snow was a member of the founding Faculty of the McGill Summer Institute for Integrated Education and, in 1994, the Toronto Summer Institute for Inclusive Community.
Judith consults and does workshops on person centred planning, personal assistance, support circle building, family support and inclusive education. Her goal is to foster an understanding of how people with disabilities can be full participants in communities everywhere.
Judith does this work out of a background of being labelled disabled herself. Among other experiences she lived in a chronic care environment for four years. With the assistance of one of the first support circles, her Joshua Committee, she was able to lobby the Ontario Government to pay directly for her attendant care. She is the first person in Canada to receive individualized funding - money for her support that goes with her and is not controlled by an agency or institution. This means Judith's star can shine everywhere!
Judith Snow is also a faculty member of the Asset Based Community Development Institute founded by John McKnight and Jodi Kretzmann at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. This institute is committed to promoting communities that acknowledge citizen capacity and thrive from the rich exchanges that develop when citizens build their own social and physical environments.
Judith has founded the International Association for Inclusive Citizenship.
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