Here you will find a growing network of advocacy groups, each with its own mission, expertise, and community roots—offering collective wisdom, solidarity, and strategic infrastructure across British Columbia and beyond.
You’ll also find advocacy strategies, gathered from experience and refined through necessity—each one designed to help families, students, and allies act with clarity inside systems that prefer us confused or compliant.
The ABCs of Engineered Scarcity offers a primer on how deprivation is manufactured inside public education systems—an evolving collection of terms that expose the mechanisms behind budget myths, gatekeeping, and policy inertia.
And finally, a curated library of frameworks and tools—including posts, models, and reflective essays—offering language, structure, and perspective for anyone trying to name what is happening and imagine what is possible.
FAQs
Find clear, honest answers about collective punishment, BC school policies, student rights, and inclusive education. This FAQ page brings together the questions families are asking—along with the evidence-based information they deserve.
Resources for educators
Tools, research, and community-grounded guidance for supporting all learners, sustaining truly inclusive classrooms, and challenging the structural conditions that render punishment the default response to unmet needs.
Resources for decision makers
This section offers frameworks, essays, and tools for those with the power to shape culture, policy, and practice in schools. It supports critical reflection on institutional norms, exposes the structural roots of educational harm, and invites a move toward collective care, accountability, and neurodiversity-affirming leadership.
Resources for Families
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Shining a legal light on advocacy conversations
How to speak from a foundation of human rights while staying grounded in care. Firm, quietly defiant responses for families navigating school denial,…
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Non-coercive, trauma-informed alternatives to PBS/ABA in BC schools
Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) and Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) are behaviourist approaches widely used in schools to manage student behaviour. However, a growing…
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The budget is the behaviour
These responses do not aim for diplomacy. They carry the clarity earned through harm. Most families hold them quietly—unspoken but vivid—because many relationships…
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Advocacy groups
This directory highlights advocacy organizations working to advance equity, inclusion, and disability justice in education. From parent-led networks to legal clinics and Indigenous-led…
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The 123s of advocacy strategy
These strategies are practical steps you can take to help your child access support—whether you’re just starting out or navigating a complex situation.
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The ABCs of engineered scarcity
A learning module for educators, caregivers, and community members resisting austerity logic in public systems. Engineered scarcity operates like a slow haemorrhage, draining…
