5. Who is Linda Viscardis?
Recipient of The Commemorative Medal for the
125th Anniversary of the Confederation of
Canada in recognition of “significant contribution
to compatriots, community and to Canada”
Trent alumna
Independent business owner
Lifestyle consultant
Mild mannered disability activist
Social justice advocate
Wife and mom
6. What’s All This About Fostering
Citizenship?
And why do we need to “Shift our Thinking?”
9. Inspiration
For more than 4 decades, his
research focused on social service
delivery systems, health policy,
community organization,
neighbourhood policy and the
incorporation of labeled people into
community life
http://www.mncdd.org/mcKnight/j
John McKnight, Community ohnMcKnight02.html
Developer
Co-Director of the Asset-
Based Development Institute
and Professor Emeritus of
Communications Studies and
Education and Social Policy at
Northwestern University in
Evanston, IL.
10. Focus
Intellectual disability
Question: In what other populations do we
see inequality, injustice?
Each person is given something to do that
shows who God is: everyone gets in on it,
everyone benefits (1 Corinthians 12:10, The Message)
