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Empower U: Learn to Access Your Disability Rights Training on Canadian Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and its Optional Protocol (OP) training aims to increase awareness of how to address discrimination using more familiar Canadian human rights laws such as Human Rights Codes and the newer international Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). This is training for persons with disabilities by persons with disabilities. The training is part of a project funded by Employment and Social Development Canada and implemented by the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) in collaboration with Canadian Multicultural Disability Centre Inc. (CMDCI), Citizens With Disabilities – Ontario (CWDO), Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities (MLPD) and National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS). Read more.
Employment
Security is having a job. However, systemic barriers continue to keep many people with disabilities unemployed. CCD's Social Policy Committee has been developing strategies for improving access to the labor market by persons with disabilities.
Recent Work
July 20, 2021
Sondage - Travailleuses et travailleurs handicapés en milieu de carrière
La participation à ce sondage est volontaire et elle prend environ 15 minutes. Il y a un formulaire de consentement pour le sondage. Read more.
July 20, 2021
Mid-Career Workers with Disabilities Survey
If you’re in the middle of your working career and have a disability, you’re invited to complete this survey. Read more.
November 6, 2020
Supporting Mid-Career Workers with Disabilities through Community-building, Education, and Career-Progression Resources (MCWD) Project Update ? March 2020
The Supporting Mid-Career Workers with Disabilities through Community-building, Education, and Career-Progression Resources (MCWD) project is funded by the Government of Canada’s Future Skills Centre. It addresses career adaptability by targeting the adaptive response skills development needs of MCWD. Through fostering and strengthening career adaptability, the project aims to potentiate other work underway to ameliorate the barriers MCWD and other disability cohorts face in the Canadian labour market. Read more.
More on Employment
September 17, 2014
Employment Equality for Canadians with Disabilities
February 12, 2014
Conservative Plan for 2014 Takes Action on Employment for Persons with Disabilities
February 10, 2014
Getting and Keeping a Job - What makes a difference
November 5, 2013
Letter to Minister of Employment and Social Development
November 1, 2013
Transforming Systems - a New Approach
April 8, 2013
CCD Brief for Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance
End Exclusion supporters rally in support of an accessible and inclusive Canada.