Defining Community Brokerage

Community brokerage is a way of supporting people with disabilities to live the life they want.

Community brokerage is about connecting people into their communities.

Community brokerage uses a holistic based approach or whole life view, and an asset based model that makes use of the individual skills that people have.

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Four masked people of color discuss books in an art-filled bookstore. On the left, a Black non-binary woman has everyone’s attention, pointing out a passage from the book they’re holding while sitting in a rollator with their cane between their legs. Next to them, an Indigenous woman and Latinx non-binary person share a couch. On the right, a Black non-binary pereson sits in a folding chair while holding their own book and fidget stim.