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About the Conference
Who Should Attend and Why
The Six Steps to Success Conference will offer delegates unprecedented opportunities to acquire new strategies and insights, and exchange information that will:
For Service Providers:
- Improve the effectiveness of service delivery for persons with disabilities;
- Improve capacity to work with employers;
- Expand knowledge of appropriate accommodations that meet the specific needs of the employees with disabilities and their employers and co-workers
- Better assist older workers to stay in place versus being forced to retire through lack of accommodations;
- Better address the needs and supports required for the successful integration/reintegration of employees with acquired disabilities;
- Improve capacity to implement strategic resources to help employees in rural and other remote areas.
For Employers:
- Provide a competitive edge in meeting current labour market demands;
- Provide tools with which to capitalize on a valuable but under utilized segment of the labour market;
- Improve ability to adapt to the needs of an aging workforce;
- Improve ability to maximize effectiveness of current employees with disabilities by discovering and implementing new and innovative strategies.
For Workers Compensation Boards:
- Provide new ideas and strategies for reintegrating employees into appropriate and meaningful placements;
- Learn about the most current international perspectives and research on worker rehabilitation issues;
- Provide opportunities to use new information as a catalyst for improving service delivery methods.
For Persons with Disabilities:
- Offer valuable networking opportunities;
- Provide opportunities to discover improved self-marketing strategies;
- Energize through exposure to dynamic speakers and delegates;
- Provide opportunities to inform the practical implementation of the latest workplace recruitment, training and accommodation methods;
- Improve ability to capitalize on the most relevantemployment opportunities that match individual skills and needs.
For Labour Organizations:
- Enhance skills and knowledge that will improve ability to represent their members;
- Improve insight into addressing the opportunities and challenges presented by an aging workforce;
- Improve ability to effectively create productive partnerships between employers and members relating to disability issues.
The name of the conference, “Six Steps to Success”, reflects six critical issues that we have identified for study and deliberation.