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Texas Law Requires Interscholastic Sports for Students with Disabilities – PHE America

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The authors hope this Bill could be introduced in your state to help students with disabilities gain equal access to and equality for sports equivalent to what is offered to nondisabled students.  The article will present Texas Senate Bill 776, highlighting notable sections, language suggestions, the need for state disability sports laws, arguments presented for this Bill, proposed advocacy, and recommendations for implementation. Texas, for example, has organized interscholastic men’s sports for over 100 years and women’s for 50 years (Title IX. 1972), it’s time students with disabilities have the same equality and equity opportunities (i.e., funding, coaches, full

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Pressure mounts on Ottawa to fund free mental health care

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More than 2,900 Canadians have signed a public letter demanding the Trudeau government follow through on a 2021 campaign promise.

"When I see people with mental illness who are homeless or living in poverty, I know that could have been my reality," says Verdun resident Leora Simon, who is speaking out to draw attention to the Canadian Mental Health Association's campaign to get the federal government to follow through on a promise to transfer more money to the provinces for mental health care.
“When I see people with mental illness who are homeless or living in poverty, I know that could have been my reality,” says Verdun resident Leora Simon, who is speaking out to draw attention to the Canadian Mental Health Association’s campaign to get the federal government to follow through on a promise to transfer more money to the provinces for mental health care. Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette

Despite suffering

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Just Talk to Me – PHE America

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People with physical disabilities hold limited positions as scholars, teachers, or leaders in physical education, recreation, and sports. Perhaps the reason is that the field is flooded with able-bodied people who think they know best. But do they? Michael Oliver, imminent writer, and scholar argued that people with physical disabilities should be the only ones in the field of disability studies because they have a bodily experience with disabilities. The following five-part article series shares the perspective of a scholar in the field of sports disability who has his own physical limitations. In each article, he

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Register Today for the 2023 WSKW Conference – PHE America

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The Fall 2023 Annual Conference for the Western Society for Kinesiology & Wellness (WSKW) will be on Thursday, October 5th – Friday, October 6th in Oakland, CA.

If you haven’t registered yet, don’t delay — register TODAY!

Conference Registration:

  • Faculty: $150
  • Students: $50

Select HERE for payment information and Paypal access

The 2023 program will include presentations from across the breadth of kinesiology and will provide opportunities to engage and learn with colleagues. The conference will incorporate poster presentations, oral presentations, round table discussions, and panel presentations.

Conference Notes:

  • This year’s conference theme is: The Future Is You
  • The conference
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Letter: Saskatchewan’s health-care staff shortage means people suffer

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In November, provincial premiers joined together to demand the federal government to increase funding through the Canada health transfer. The response was not what provincial leaders had hoped for.

The Government of Canada’s Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos responded with the need to discuss benchmarks to account for improvements to the provincial health-care system.

The response from the provincial premiers was a complete dismissal of the need to show benchmarks to the public for improving health care.

One of the most obvious effects of chronic underfunding and mismanagement of health-care funding has been a staff shortage crisis across the country.

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Rising backlash over BC’s Invoice 36

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As British Columbia’s health-care system verges on collapse, provincial lawmakers have enacted sweeping adjustments to the oversight of medical professionals in a shock transfer staff are denouncing as an pointless, years-long transition ripe for potential political interference.

When hospitals and docs’ places of work started seeing an onslaught of sick sufferers this fall, politicians had been busy passing Invoice 36, new laws merging faculties but in addition essentially altering how these faculties would operate going ahead.

Regulatory faculties oversee whether or not technical requirements {and professional} tips are adopted for health-care personnel together with nurses, docs, psychologists and pharmacists.

Complaints

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