Building workplace capacity to include persons with disabilities
Inclusive Design for Employment Access (IDEA) develops evidence-informed policy, guidance and tools to advance the capacity of employers and other workplace parties to recruit, hire, onboard, retain, mentor and promote persons with disabilities across the full range of employment opportunities.
Welcome to IDEA
Strengthening workplace capacity to accommodate workers with disabilities will help address Canada’s ongoing labour shortages, ensure employers have the talent they need, and help reduce the poverty and marginalization of persons with disabilities.
IDEA supports organizational efforts to build “disability confidence,” through knowledge to practice. See the video for more on IDEA.
Latest news
Ignore the noise: majority of Canadians still support EDI
During disability employment awareness month, Wendy Cukier spotlights research that shows we still have a way to go in advancing inclusion and most Canadians are behind it
Inclusive employment centre stage at IDEA Symposium
Symposium gathers leaders to advance disability inclusion
Transforming workplaces initiative aims to help youth with disabilities enter the trades
A new multi-year project is underway to help workplaces in Canada’s construction and manufacturing sectors retool their systems to better include youth with disabilities.
New $4.4-million program aims to help employers hire youth with disabilities
A federally funded initiative will help construction and manufacturing employers in Canada improve their ability to recruit and retain young workers with disabilities over the next three years.