Status of Women committee  I'll just start by saying this: culturally responsive practices and also educating health and social services professionals on the intersectionality of mental health. As I mentioned, 35% of Black and indigenous young women and girls have disabilities. That's notwithstanding every

Status of Women committee  I don't mind speaking to that. At DAWN Canada we do a lot of work with partnering organizations; we're more like a network. Knowing that we are more in the eyes of the government, what we do is that when we get funding, we always try to partner with organizations that are doing

Status of Women committee  Thank you. First, we want to applaud all of the speakers for their bravery in talking about a topic that impacts many of us. The DisAbled Women's Network of Canada is a feminist, cross-disability human rights organization that works to address systems of oppression using an int