Free for Post-Secondary Students and Recent Graduates with Disabilities and speaker/facilitators; $50 for Professionals. Lunch provided. This event will be offered in Engilsh and French.
Breaking it Down: Dialogues on Removing Barriers for People with Disabilities in the Workplace Friday, December 2nd 2016, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) Chaufferie (CO-R700) du pavillon Cœur des sciences 175, avenue du Président-Kennedy Montréal (Québec). This building can be accessed by entering the campus at 201 President-Kennedy.
For more information contact: [email protected] 1-877-670-1256 Register now: https://secure.neads.ca/register/en.php?id=16QC
Workshop Topics:
Personal Branding and Social Media
Soft Skills: Challenges in the Workplace
Disclosure and Accommodation Barriers and Focused Career Goals
Presented by Association québécoise des étudiants ayant des incapacités au postsecondaire (AQEIPS) and Centre des services d’accueil et de soutien socioéconomique (UQAM). A National Educational Association of Disabied Students (NEADS) event.
Speakers:
Keynote/ discours d'ouverture
Richard Anctil, HR Business Partner, (East) Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Soft Skills: Challenges in the Workplace
Laurence Perreault-Rousseau, directrice générale de l'AQEIPS
Disclosure and Accommodation
Isabelle Hétu, Program Manager, Trucking Human Resources Canada
Barriers and Focused Career Goals
Chelsea Mohler MA Graduate, Wilfrid Laurier University National Educational Association of Disabled Students
What makes “Breaking it Down” different from other employment workshops?
Unlike most employment workshops that rely on a one-way flow of knowledge from employer to potential employee, student and employer participants will have the opportunity to engage in facilitated discussions aimed at creating a knowledge exchange process between employers and potential employees.
The Breaking It Down workshop is part of “Breaking Through Barriers”: An Employment Project To Support Persons With Disabilities, a national two–and-a-half year project funded by Labour Canada through its Workplace Opportunities: Removing Barriers to Equity program. The initiative is aimed at connecting recent graduates with disabilities and employers in the federally regulated sector, through in-person workshops and a unique web portal designed to create on-going relationships and resource sharing between disabled graduates and employers.
National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS) Rm. 514 Unicentre, Carleton University Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6 tel. (613) 380-8065 ext. 201 www.neads.ca
"Supporting access to post-secondary education and employment for students with disabilities"