2025
Disability Affinity Group (DAG) Meetings
Attend an informal, drop-in style Zoom meeting to discuss concerns, issues, strategies, advocacy, ideas, or just sit back and relax with your camera on or off in a safe and supportive environment
Our next DAG Community of Care Drop in Sessions are:
- Friday Sept 26, 2025 at 2PM
- Friday Oct 17, 2025 at 3PM
- Friday Nov 14, 2025 at 2PM
- Friday Dec 12, 2025 at 3PM
Please email disability.affinity@ubc.ca for connection details and please include any accessibility needs.
All self-identifying Disabled UBC community members are welcome.
As always, drop in any time, bring snacks, a warm drink, your pets, whatever feels right.
Feel free to have your camera on or off, and participate with your microphone or in the chat.
We send out reminders closer to each meeting.
Asynchronous & Bookable
Bookable DAG-run Workshops
The DAG offers the following Workshops. Please email disability.affinity@ubc.ca for details and fee schedule
- Challenging Ableism
- Universal Design for Learning to Promote Accessibility
- Disability, Sex, and Consent
Asynchronous Disability at Work 101 Course – UBC Workplace Learning
The Disability at Work 101 course is now available on UBC Workplace Learning.
The course content and themes were developed by the UBC Disability Affinity Group plus nearly 500 Disabled people across UBC who participated in the Centre for Workplace Accessibility’s survey in summer 2024.
The 60-minute, asynchronous course is intended for all UBC employees who wish to deepen their disability inclusion literacy, and serves as a great introduction to the Centre for Workplace Accessibility’s full roster of courses on Workplace Learning.
Many folks from the Disability Affinity Group were involved in the initial content generation over the past couple of years, or responded to the survey last summer, so we thank each of you for incredible work.
Disability-Related Annual Days of Significance (Click to Expand)
Join us in recognizing these disability-related annual days of significance:
January
Glaucoma Awareness Month
- January 4 – World Braille Day
- January 24 – Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day
- January 30 – Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Awareness Day
February
Low Vision Awareness Month
- February 20 – World Day of Social Justice
March
Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month; Developmental Disabilities Month; Multiple Sclerosis Month
- March 1 – Zero Discrimination Day; International Wheelchair Day
- March 21 – World Down Syndrome Day
- March 26 – Purple Day for Epilepsy
April
Parkinson’s Awareness Month; Autism Acceptance Month
- April 2- World Autism Awareness Day
- April 8 – Fibromyalgia Awareness Day
- April 6 World Bohring-Opitz Syndrome Awareness Day
- April 8 – Cushing’s Disease Awareness Day
May
ALS Awareness Month; Mental Health Awareness Month; Arthritis Awareness Month; National Stroke Awareness Month
- May 5 – International Cri di Chat Awareness Day
- May 12 – Fibromyalgia Awareness Day
- May 19 – Global Accessibility Awareness Day
- May 30 – World Multiple Sclerosis Day
June
Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month; Dravet Syndrome Awareness Month; Cataract Awareness Month
- June 21 – The Longest Day (Alzheimer’s Awareness)
- June 23 – Dravet Syndrome Awareness Day
- June 27 – National PTSD Awareness Day
July
Disability Pride Month; Williams Syndrome Awareness Month
- July 14 – Disability Awareness Day
August
Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month
- First Sunday in August – Second Monday in August – International Assistance Dog Week
September
National Guide Dog Month; World Alzheimer’s Month
- September 21 – World Alzheimer’s Day
- September 21 – International Week of the Deaf
- September 23 – International Day of Sign Languages
- September 23 – ID24 (Inclusive Design 24)
- September 30 – Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Day
October
Disability Employment Awareness Month; Down Syndrome Awareness Month; Dyslexia Awareness Month; Spina Bifida Awareness Month
- October 6 – World Cerebral Palsy Day
- October 10 – World Sight Day
- October 10 – World Mental Health Day
- October 15 – White Cane Awareness Day
- October 17-23 – Invisible Disabilities Week
November Indigenous Disability Awareness Month; Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month; Epilepsy Awareness Month
- November 1-5 – International Stress Awareness Week
- November 12 – Global Usability Day
- November 14 – World Diabetes Day
- November 21 – World COPD Day
December
- December 1 – World AIDS Day
- December 3 – UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities
- December 10 – Human Rights Day
- December 27 – International Day of Epidemic Preparedness
2023 Archive (Click to Expand)
The UBC Centre for Workplace Accessibility celebrated the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities (December 3, 2023) by offering a series of online webinars to enhance your disability inclusion literacy. This series aims to raise awareness and promote inclusive practices in UBC workplaces.
Enroll here:
November 27th, 10-11am: Disability and Wellness: Hard of Hearing in the Workplace
November 28th, 10-11am: Disability Inclusion in Hiring
November 29th, 11am-12pm: Disability Inclusion in Teaching and Learning
November 30th, 1-2pm: Deaf Culture in the Workplace
December 1st, 10-11am: Shifting Our Perspective on Inclusion and Accessibility
A Job Seeker’s Journey: An Inclusive Employment Presentation with InclusionBC & Canucks Autism Network
December 13, 2023 10:30am-11:30am
Zoom: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/67569823575?pwd=M203NVVPVVpGN0V4eC9UM2JjclpNdz09
