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Work Wellness Institute Membership!

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    • Leadership Certification
    • Inclusivity Recruitment & Retention Certification
    • Work Wellness Ambassador Certification

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Course Description

Welcome!

Thank you for choosing to take Course 30 in the Inclusion Works: Transformative Recruitment Practices certificate. These courses are for professionals looking to enhance workplace inclusivity and productivity through their recruitment practices. Understanding the nuances of disability management enables professionals to effectively support employees with disabilities, leading to a more diverse and engaged workforce. Additionally, hiring people with disabilities fosters a more inclusive workplace culture and brings unique perspectives and talents, enriching teams and driving innovation and success.

Description: 
Women with disabilities and chronic health conditions often navigate complex intersections of gender, health, and work expectations—balancing personal well-being with professional demands in systems not always designed with inclusivity in mind.

This moderated panel discussion, featuring subject matter experts from the DisAbled Women’s Network (DAWN), explores how workplaces can better support women managing disability and chronic illness. Panelists will share lived experiences and evidence-informed strategies to reframe workplace culture to promote equity and flexibility. Participants will gain insight into how inclusive approaches can empower women to thrive professionally while maintaining health and balance.

Learning Outcomes
  • Identify key barriers and challenges faced by women balancing work with disability or chronic health conditions.
  • Recognize inclusive workplace practices and approaches that support flexibility, accessibility, and equitable participation.
  • Apply practical strategies for fostering a culture of empathy, trust, and understanding that supports women’s well-being and sustainable careers.


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Harmony Bongat

Harmony is a queer, pansexual, poly, sober, disabled, ADHDer who is a mixed race, Filipino white settler, living and working in what is colonially known as New Westminster, BC. As a visibly disabled, queer, person of colour, her intersectional perspective is central to her personal approach to accessibility, disability justice education and advocacy, activism and harm reduction. She is eager to collaborate, share knowledge and invite others in and to help create spaces where all disabled people, all BIPOC, all 2SLGBTQIA+ people can access what we all deserve: community, support, respect and joy.

Myryja Friesen

Founder of Compassion Yukon I worked with the Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition and Inclusion Yukon to put on the Accessibility Olympics which led Art Karts to invite me as a disabled person to join part of his Expedition on the Yukon River. I was a truck driver delivering all over the Yukon before my physical disabling car accident. I know a little about a lot of things and was recently diagnosed neuro-spicy-ness I taught and learned Okinowan Wepons, and Shotocan Karate also just started to learn Sword (Iado) up until the Accident. Currently just trying to survive.

Tara Slade Hall

I am a 54 year old LGBTQIA+ woman with an acquired, chronic illness/disability. Before becoming disabled I was very ambitious and hard working, putting myself through CEGEP and university, studying biochemistry. At the age of 27, after a near-death experience I went back to school to study nursing. I have never worked in either of these professions, mostly due to lack of accommodations, prejudice and my own inability to function. I see the world changing and I am seeing more young people with disabilities in the workplace, which gives me hope, however, I would like to see more of us working outside of disability organizations.

Course curriculum

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    Course 30: Inclusion Works - Navigating Balance: Work, and the Realities of Chronic Health and Disability

    • Pre-Survey

    • Welcome!

    • Navigating Balance: Work, and the Realities of Chronic Health and Disability

    • Navigating Balance: Work, and the Realities of Chronic Health and Disability

    • Time to Reflect and Take Your Learning into Action!

    • Course Resources

    • Evaluation Survey