“I see big gaps”: the Community Volunteer Supplement and disability income policy in British Columbia

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dc.contributor.authorWitkowskyj, Candace Larissa
dc.contributor.supervisorPrince, Michael J.
dc.contributor.supervisorTeghtsoonian, Katherine Anne
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-02T23:00:17Z
dc.date.copyright2016en_US
dc.date.issued2016-09-02
dc.degree.departmentProgram: Studies in Policy and Practiceen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis research explores a disability community’s success in drawing public attention to an unlawful development of policy, that community’s efforts in resistance, and the experiences of those individuals in relation to subsequent neoliberal silencing. Specifically, this study examines the experiences of people on disability assistance in British Columbia who successfully appealed the Ministry’s unjust denial of the Community Volunteer Supplement (CVS) and documents participants’ reactions to the government’s later repeal of the CVS program. Five individuals were interviewed about their experiences in resisting the Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation’s practice to wait list CVS applicants, a benefit they were legislatively entitled to receive. Of the participants interviewed, three identified as women and two identified as men. Utilizing a post-structural feminist theory, influenced by critical disability theory and Foucault, a key finding of this research is that participants’ experiences with the CVS is connected to their experiences of poverty, resistance, and community.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0630en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0452en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0617en_US
dc.description.proquestemailcwitkowskyj@gmail.comen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/7522
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectdisability policyen_US
dc.subjectCommunity Volunteer Supplement (CVS)en_US
dc.subjectappealsen_US
dc.subjectBritish Columbiaen_US
dc.subjectresistanceen_US
dc.subjectincome policyen_US
dc.title“I see big gaps”: the Community Volunteer Supplement and disability income policy in British Columbiaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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