Sea Change CoLab is pleased to launch the Accessibility Confident Employers (ACE) Project, which will engage employers across Nova Scotia to address accessibility barriers. We aim to enhance accessible recruitment, hiring, retention, and advancement of people who identify as Deaf, neurodivergent, and/or having a disability.
We are offering a series of free learning events from 2023-2026. Our work will target a range of sectors in Nova Scotia including businesses, public service organizations, and the impact (non-profit) sector.
Accessibility Foundations Blended Training
DATE: Sept 13th – Oct 4th, 2023
LOCATION: Online
COST: FREE
This engaging Accessibility Foundations blended (or self-paced) online training includes a 1-hour live launch workshop, (Sept 13, 1pm), and a 1-hour live wrap-up workshop (Oct 4, 1pm). Workshops will be recorded and posted online. In between live workshops, participants will be guided through 3 modules that include first voice videos, resources, infographics, case studies, and reflections. This training was created in collaboration with the Nova Scotia Accessibility Directorate, and adapted for blended learning.
By the end of this online course, participants will be able to:
- Define disability, types of disabilities, accessibility, and the prevalence of disability in Nova Scotia
- Explain the importance of the Nova Scotia Accessibility Act
- Understand the impact of the Accessibility Act on employers
- Provide examples of barriers and ableism and their impacts on persons with disabilities
- Outline practices to support persons with disabilities to meaningfully participate in employment
Allyship Foundations Blended Training
DATE: Oct 11th – Nov 8th 2023
LOCATION: Online
COST: FREE
This blended (or self-paced) online course includes a 1-hour live launch workshop, (Oct 11, 1pm), and a 1-hour live wrap-up workshop (Nov 8, 1pm). Workshops will be recorded and posted online. In between workshops, participants will be guided through 4 modules that include first voice videos, resources, infographics, and reflections.
By the end of this online course, participants will be able to:
- Proactively support inclusion and belonging in your workplace
- Define and use key concepts related to equity, inclusion, diversity, and belonging
- Feel confident to interrupt unconscious/implicit bias and respond to microaggressions
- Explore historic and current day realities for equity seeking groups in Nova Scotia
- Appreciate how allyship creates a more inclusive culture that benefits both marginalized and privileged groups
- Demonstrate effective allyship in a range of everyday work-related scenarios
Meet the Facilitators
Corrie Melanson (she/they)
Corrie Melanson is a queer advocate and facilitator, able-bodied, white, settler, and a mom of three racialized kids. She is a learning experience designer based in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), NS. Corrie is passionate about creating learning experiences that are safe, inclusive, and connect personal, organizational, and systemic change.
Nicole Cammaert (she/her)
A nimble, innovative, professional facilitator, community engagement and communications specialist, and systems thinker with over twenty years of business and organization management, project management, community development and engagement experience in the non-profit and private sectors.