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For Disability Employment Awareness Month (DEAM2023), Ready, Willing & Able was very pleased to welcome over 250 attendees for this webinar on achieving success through inclusive and competitive employment. Click here to visit the webinar page.

By the end of this 1-hour webinar, participants will gain insights on:

What does it mean to seek out inclusive employment?
What is competitive employment?
How can competitive and inclusive employment help with personal growth and independence?
The importance of talking about visioning and setting goals for employment, as well as exploring what kinds of work you want to do
How other individuals with intellectual disabilities or on the autism spectrum have achieved meaningful and competitive employment goals, and how they found support.
How agencies and employers work together to ensure support is provided to staff with specific adaptation or accommodation needs.
How people in your life can help: including access to new resources with tips and pointers on how to support job seekers on their journey towards competitive employment.

Panel Discussion: Gain invaluable insights from a diverse panel of experts which include:

Debbie Thomas - Parent Advocate
Kyra Thomas - Self-Advocate and Employee
Evan Noble – Self Advocate and Job Seeker
Sue Noble – Parent Advocate
Oly Backstrom - Inclusive Employment Agency Representative (SCE Lifeworks)
Don Gallant - Director of Ready, Willing and Able

This webinar series is for:

Job Seekers on the autism spectrum or with an intellectual disability
Families, Caregivers, support networks and other community members supporting a job seeker in their employment journey
Employment agencies looking for more information on how best to support clients;
Anyone interested in advancing workplace inclusion is also encouraged to attend!

Sessions is in English only. A recording with French Captions is available by clicking the FR button at the top of the webinar page/

To support inclusion and make the “Achieving Success” webinar accessible to all, the webinar will include closed captioning and live sign language interpreters. Transcripts are available for all webinar recordings.

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