Keeping with our unofficial mantra “Advocate! Educate! Demonstrate!”, ODSP Action Coalition advocates for improvements to the benefits and other supports available to people with disabilities in a variety of ways, including — but not limited to:

• Educating ourselves and others through continuously researching, networking, and sharing information regarding social policy, benefit design, legislative processes, historical precedents, etc.
• Hosting monthly meetings through which our membership shares/exchanges relevant information, ideas and experiences.
• Networking, partnering and sharing information/ideas with other organizations, including grassroots org’s, anti-poverty/disability related NGOs/NPOs, and other stakeholders.
• Lobbying and meeting with our elected officials, particularly Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs), key ministers and Opposition critics.
• Making written submissions to the government as part of annual pre-budget consultations and other occasions.
• Bringing mainstream and social media attention to disability and poverty.
• Planning, organizing and facilitating public events, demonstrations, actions and educational workshops.

We are also very fortunate and grateful to be plugged into a vast network of valued allies, including legal clinic workers, social policy experts, post-secondary students, and various other partner organizations & advocates throughout Ontario and beyond.