In accordance with the Accessible British Columbia Act, School District 8 (Kootenay Lake) has formed an Accessibility Advisory Committee, effective October 2023 and throughout the 2023-24 school year. The role of the committee will be to advise the school district in its development of an accessibility plan that includes identifying, preventing, and removing barriers to accessibility that people with disabilities face within the school district.
At School District 8 (Kootenay Lake), we want to learn about specific accessibility barriers that people face when they're trying to:
Your responses to the questions below will be reviewed by the School District 8 Accessibility Advisory Committee for their consideration. This information can be submitted anonymously, or you can provide your contact details at the bottom of the form if you wish to be contacted.
Thank you for providing your valuable feedback! You will be contacted shortly if you have provided your contact details.
A barrier is anything that hinders the full and equal participation in society of a person with an impairment. Barriers can be caused by environments, attitudes, practices, policies, information, communications or technologies, and affected by intersecting forms of discrimination. Further details are provided in the BC Accessibility Act.