St. Peter’s Parish will host a Doors Open Workshop to help our community consider ways of making our community accessible to all people. This will take place at 7:00 PM on Thursday, November 23rd in the St. Paul’s Room in the Centre. This workshop will examine the following: Our Doors Are Open helps faith communities across Ontario to welcome people with all abilities by creating communities that:
- Recognize barriers that prevent the full participation of people with disabilites
- Brainstorm simple and creative solutions to remove these barriers; and
- Welcome and fully include people with disabilities in their community.
The Open Your Doors “community-inclusion” workshop is designed specifically to help individual faith-communities to:
- Develop what we call “inclusive thinking”
- Reach out to their members with disabilities
- Engage those members in full participation
- Discuss ways to create accessible media and communications
- Allow them to assess the physical and social inclusivity of a faith-community
