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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.
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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.
September 17, 2014
Employment Equality for Canadians with Disabilities
A powerpoint presentation exploring employment and Canadians with disabilities. Read more.
February 12, 2014
Conservative Plan for 2014 Takes Action on Employment for Persons with Disabilities
CCD commends the Government of Canada for progress to date, and looks forward to working in partnership with the Government of Canada on those barriers, which are very well known in the disability community - poverty, inaccessibility, and lack of disability-related supports. Read more.
February 10, 2014
Getting and Keeping a Job - What makes a difference
This collection of essays has much to teach Canadians seeking to include workers with disabilities in the workplace, because the authors tease out from their personal experiences the factors that promote employment for people with disabilities. Read more.
November 5, 2013
Letter to Minister of Employment and Social Development
I am writing to share with you “A New Approach” to addressing the labour market needs of Canadians with disabilities. Read more.
November 1, 2013
Transforming Systems - a New Approach
Creating greater employment opportunities for persons with disabilities is not only the right thing to do; it makes good economic sense. A win/win opportunity exists and can be realized. Read more.
April 8, 2013
CCD Brief for Submission to the Standing Committee on Finance
The government of Canada has a clear labour force agenda and one in which persons with disabilities can participate. We are a population in waiting – waiting for government to implement strategies and approaches which support people with disabilities to exercise their skills and expertise. Such action by the Government of Canada would demonstrate that they both recognize and value the place of people with disabilities in this country – after all, there is no “THOSE PEOPLE”. We are you Read more.
March 22, 2013
Budget 2013: Creating More Inclusive Labour Markets
CCD is pleased to see a reaffirmation within Budget 2013 of continued support for Canadians with disabilities through extension of the Labour Market Agreement for Persons with Disabilities, and the fact that the Enabling Accessibility Fund and the Opportunities Fund have been made permanent programs. Read more.
March 12, 2013
People with Disabilities: Getting Beyond Being the Population in Waiting
The government of Canada has a clear labour force agenda and one in which persons with disabilities can participate. We are a population in waiting – waiting for government to implement strategies and approaches which support people with disabilities to exercise their skills and expertise. Such action by the Government of Canada would demonstrate that they both recognize and value the place of people with disabilities in this country. Read more.
January 16, 2013
Private Sector Must Show Leadership on Employment and Disability
CCD applauds the good work of the Panel and the commitment of Ministers Finley and Flaherty to bring greater private sector attention to the employment needs of Canadians with disabilities. “CCD hopes the Panel’s good work will spark new commitments within the private sector to insure that their recruiting, hiring, promotion and retention initiatives become more inclusive and result in greater employment of Canadians with disabilities,” said Laurie Beachell, CCD National Coordinator. Read more.
June 14, 2012
Getting and Keeping a Job--What makes a difference
Despite barriers in the labour market, there are Canadians with disabilities who have been successful in obtaining employment and progressing in their chosen careers. If this describes your work experience, CCD wants to hear from you about what has contributed to your employment success. Read more.
April 13, 2012
Key Messages
Key messages on employment and persons with disabilities prepared by CCD Social Policy Committee for the HRSDC stakeholder engagement meeting on employment barriers for Canadians with Disabilities Ottawa, February 8th, 2012. Read more.
March 31, 2009
Make EI Accessible and Inclusive to Canadian Women with Disabilities
Today, the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women and called upon the Federal Government to make EI more accessible and inclusive to women with disabilities by expanding eligibility criteria and expanding its coverage. Read more.
End Exclusion supporters rally in support of an accessible and inclusive Canada.