During Disability Awareness Week 2023 in New Brunswick, CHCO-TV, an independent community television station based in St. Andrews, NB, received the 2023 Employer Recognition Award from InclusionNB for their role in the community working with both volunteers and paid employees with disabilities. CHCO-TV's "Learn to Sign with Noah Carr" is an example of the TV station's dedication to not only working with individuals with disabilities (Noah Carr has cerebral palsy and uses sign language to speak), but also fostering a better and more inclusive New Brunswick through their programming ("Learn to Sign with Noah Carr" teaches New Brunswickers to learn basic sign language). CHCO-TV was nominated by the Charlotte County branch of InclusionNB for the award.
Inclusion NB, previously known as the New Brunswick Association for Community Living, operates as a non-profit organization at the provincial level. Its mission is to advocate for individuals, both children and adults, who have intellectual or developmental disabilities, along with their families. The organization strives to empower these individuals and their families, enabling them to make informed choices about the support they require. This approach facilitates their ability to lead purposeful lives and actively engage in their communities as respected and influential members.
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LJI Impact is the section of commediaportal.ca where the journalists and their organizations participating in CACTUS' Local Journalism Initiative can share their greatest successes.
Through the written stories, photos and videos you see in the LJI Impact section, you'll be able to read first hand accounts about how the presence of a community journalist is making a difference in communities across Canada through the Local Journalism Initiative and the Community Media Portal.
The Community Media Portal is a gateway to the audio-visual media created by community media centres across Canada. These include traditional community TV and radio stations, as well as online and new media production centres.
Community media are not-for-profit production hubs owned and operated by the communities they serve, established both to provide local content and reflection for their communities, as well as media training and access for ordinary citizens to the latest tools of media production, whether traditional TV and radio, social and online media, virtual reality, augmented reality or video games.
The Community Media Portal has been funded by the Local Journalism Initiative (the LJI) of the Department of Canadian Heritage, and administered by the Canadian Association of Community Television Users and Stations (CACTUS) in association with the Fédération des télévisions communautaires autonomes du Québec (the Fédération). Under the LJI, over 100 journalists have been placed in underserved communities and asked to produce civic content that underpins Canadian democratic life.
