Category Archives: Employment

Check out the Student Links Initiative offered by Community Living Ontario 👥✨🌍

Employment, Volunteer
Student Links is a mentorship initiative that works with high school students between the ages of 14 and 21, who identify as having an intellectual disability. This initiative helps them explore their interests in the community and possible roles for themselves after high school.
Community Living Ontario does this through one time community meetings and longer-term mentorship opportunities. These opportunities are created by connecting students with volunteer mentors who share their interest(s) and who have expertise and/or job experience in an area the student wishes to explore.

🎙️Podcast on Disrupting Ableism in the Workplace

Advocacy, Employment

In this episode of You Can’t Spell Inclusion Without A D podcast, Ontario Disability Employment Network (ODEN) got a perspective on Ableism in the workplace: Why it’s happening, its many forms, its impact and what can, and needs to be, done about it.

The two guests for this episode had many powerful insights on ableism.

Sree Nallamothu is the Co-Executive Director of Toronto Neighbourhood Centres. She’s also a documentary film-maker and an advocate for social change.

Fran Odette has more than 25 years of experience in disability advocacy, activism and education. She co-designed and co-teaches a critical disability studies course titled, Disability Discourse: The Experienced Life, at George Brown College in Toronto.

Their insights will get you thinking more consciously about ableism.

Read this excerpt from the conversation: https://www.odenetwork.com/qa-excerpt-disrupting-ableism-in-the-workplace/
Then, to get the full impact of their guests’ insights on ableism, catch the full episode: https://youcantspellinclusionwithoutad.podbean.com/e/episode-20-disrupting-ableism-in-the-workplace/

📖Novel Study Sessions at Kanata Learning Centre📖

Employment

Do you dream of your child reading a chapter book before bed every night…OR…snuggling with you while you read aloud? (Even big kids benefit from oral reading by the adult in their life!) Do you wish your child would fall in love with reading for pleasure? Is it hard to find the time and place in your busy day to focus on this?

Kanata Learning Centre offers once weekly novel study sessions. Your child comes for 50 minutes per week to chat about the book, write out some thoughts, learn new vocabulary. They bring the book home to read a chapter, (or more) over the course of the week. Books being read this summer are Charlotte’s Web for the younger students, and The Golden Compass for the older students. Your child will be working with an energetic fun educator and the goal is to create lifelong readers-for-pleasure! Pop an email to: office@kanatalearningcentre.com for more info. Let’s turn some pages!