The Surrey & White Rock Board of Trade, in partnership with the Presidents Group, is offering access to free training to help build your skills and confidence in employing people with disabilities. The content is relevant to anyone involved in hiring or managing people.
This 5-part course can be completed online at your own pace. Each module takes about 30 minutes to complete. You’ll learn the business case for inclusive workplaces, legal requirements, and terminology, and common workplace barriers employers can address. Upon completion of the course, you will receive a certificate and your company can be listed on the accessibleemployers.ca website.
The course includes the following modules:
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- Legal Requirements of an Inclusive Employer
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- Accommodations in the Workplace
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- Elements of Inclusive Workplaces
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- Removing Barriers
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- Knowledge into Action
How to Register:
To register for the Creating Accessible Workplaces Certificate Course, please go to learning.accessibleemployers.ca, then click on the square “Do you have an enrollment key?” and enter the following information:
Enrollment Key Name: SWRBOTMember
Presidents Group is a network of 25 change-driven BC business leaders who are champions for more accessible, inclusive workplaces. Leaders of businesses of all different sizes and sectors are represented, and nearly 60,000 British Columbians are employed at the Presidents Group’s member organizations. These leaders meet quarterly to share best practices amongst one another and serve an advisory role to BC’s Minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction. Presidents Group also supports the Community of Accessible Employers, which gives employers beyond the 25 members the chance to join the movement to accessible employment, through free events, networking, and curriculum. Currently, over 250 different companies from across the province have staff signed up for our Community.
Links
- International Day of Living Together in Peace
- World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
- Pansexual and Panromantic Awareness & Visibility Day
- Enabling disability inclusion in the workplace
- Employers’ Lessons Learned in Hiring, Retaining and Advancing Employees with Disabilities
- How to Talk About Disability Sensitively and Avoid Ableist Tropes
WorkBC Assistive Technology Services provides assistive technology or support to individuals with disabilities to assist them to gain and sustain employment or community attachment.
Hire for Talent– is an Inclusive Canadian Workforce with a national project that will deliver a Canada-wide awareness campaign aimed at increasing the confidence of employers when hiring people with disabilities.
Their awareness campaign also aims to increase employer awareness about how people with disabilities are a talented part of the workforce and will provide resources to help employers tap into this talent pool during their search for skilled workers.
Neil Squire with the use of use technology, knowledge, and passion Neil Squire empowers Canadians with disabilities.
PHSA provides educational opportunities and courses for learning about gender diversity and creating gender-affirming environments. To know more about the courses and the registration process, click here and for training opportunities, click here.
