Enhance your skills to equip you with the latest strategies and practical tools for supporting inclusive hiring and retention of workers with disabilities.

Course Description

Career Development and Employment Inclusion Training provides participants with an up-to-date foundation of awareness, knowledge, strategies and techniques to facilitate the employment inclusion of people with disabilities. Participants will also improve their capacity to engage and coach employers for improved outcomes in the engagement and retention of workers with disabilities. 

This series improves upon core competencies and provides real-work strategies for applied learning and professional growth as employment inclusion subject matter experts. 

Learning Opportunity

At the end of this training, learners will have an understanding of: 

• How history has shaped our values and goals around disability and employment 
• Disability in society, work Trends and disability 
• The evolution of employment services / Best Practices and Standards 
• Disability and disability as diversity. 
• Disability definitions/models, exploring ‘barriers’ and ableism. 
• Continuum of intentional advocacy for inclusion outcome. 
• Career counselling relationships and disability. 
• Facilitating Self-Discovery / What, Why and How. 
• Planning Tools and Techniques. 
• Career Exploration – Matching Job Seekers and Opportunities. 
• Accommodations as a critical workplace equity skill. 
• Employer obligations and trepidations. 
• Mindset, approach and action plan – supporting design. 
• Job development roles – supporting, engaging and promoting. 
• Networks and Collaboration. 
• Interview support – managing disclosure. 
• Inclusion Coaching – building natural supports. 

Course Structure

This is a self-paced online course with five webinars. It will take approximately 7.5 hours to complete