Resources

This business to business resource aims to help small and medium-sized enterprises easily adapt hiring and retention practices to become a more inclusive and supportive employer. Features case studies, inclusion tips, and the fundamental of HR practices.

Employers have been adapting their business models to fit a “new normal” of remote work, shifting consumer demands, and increased flexibility for staff. While the period has been hard, the increased accessibility is something we can celebrate and reap the benefits of.

BCLC’s approach to creating a Diversity & Inclusion Statement.

Harvard Business Review highlights how the case for improving work for people with disabilities goes way beyond compliance.

Use this self-assessment tool to help determine where your organization is at on its journey to becoming an inclusive and accessible workplace.

Suggestions on how to celebrate disability in the workplace, whether you only have 15 minutes or an entire day.

Language related to disabilities is constantly evolving and preferred language can differ by region, country, or individual. Here are some language tips that may help you get started.

Meridian Meats and Farm Market, a medium-sized BC business, and posAbilities Employment Services, offer some tips for creating a successful partnership between employers and DESOs.

EY’s employees have created a network focused on mental health awareness. This group aims to provide employees with information on and support for coping with mental health challenges and stress.

Use these 3 wellness tips to ensure that your organizations workstations and environment are contributing to the health and well-being of your employees.

Vancity embarked on a number of initiatives surrounding mental health to help build their employees understanding of the issue.

The Opportunities Fund is a federally funded program designed to support people in overcoming barriers to employment. Learn how employers can access wage subsidies, accessibility support, and ongoing employer support.

Steps to consider when writing an inclusive job posting.

Tacofino shares their five tips on how to create an inclusive and accessible small business.

Tips for employers on how to balance employee privacy while encouraging the disclosure of information that supports employees to be successful.

Questions that you can and can’t ask during an interview.

Use this template to tailor an inclusive job posting.

Items to consider when selecting a disability employment service organization (DESO) to work with.

There are a lot of basic best practices you can implement to keep your content accessible on social media. This makes a big impact on the experience for users with vision and/or hearing disabilities. This checklist from Alexa Heinrich can help you to double-check your content before posting. 

Brad McCannell, Rick Hansen Foundation’s VP, Access & Inclusion, busts the top 5 myths of Universal Design.

The Rick Hansen Foundation suggests reviewing these key areas of your workplace and guidelines when planning for accessibility.

Use this article that highlights recruitment tips for hiring people with disabilities.

Use this article to get your team behind an inclusive hiring strategy.

Learn how Destination BC included Diversity and Inclusion in their HR strategy.

5 tips for creating a Diversity and Inclusion strategy for your large business.

Is your business inclusive? Learn how you could be recognized for your recruitment practices and celebrate the successes of other employers.

Our 3 tips to make the leadership and culture of your business more inclusive.

Strategies for small businesses to efficiently and effectively roll out an employee engagement survey.

COVID-19 created challenges for many businesses and consumers. As we move through the Phases of BC’s Restart Plan, we’re all working to keep safe. In order to keep businesses accessible while incorporating new safety protocols, we’ve developed this resource to support businesses of all sizes to do their part to combat COVID-19 while remaining accessible and inclusive.

There are many common myths regarding people with vision loss and the workplace! This resource by CNIB BC tackles common misconceptions, and offers best practice recommendations for meetings, etiquette, and more.

Tetra Society of North America received funding to build and bring to market an affordable and customizable device that makes using a computer more accessible for users with mobility challenges. The netClé device was created to fill this need, whether in someone’s home, their work-from-home office, or the workplace.

For some time, captions were used only for people who are deaf and hard-of-hearing to access video content, but they have become a lot more than that in our online world. In addition to improving accessibility, captions boost engagement, flexibility, user satisfaction, and promote inclusion and engagement in the workplace.

ICBC shares how they built an Employee Resource Group and how you can get started in your workplace.

BC Hydro’s Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are an important part of their culture. These FAQs can assist organizations in forming their own ERGs.

This project aims to help businesses address hiring and support challenges they have faced due to the pandemic. To achieve this goal, they are working with businesses to develop work experience placements for 2-3 participants at a time for 1-4 weeks. There are no costs incurred by the businesses or participants to take part. The employers will end up with a pool of highly …

How to make the orientation and onboarding process inclusive for all employees.

When hiring someone with a disability for the first time, it is important to understand what concerns your team might have so you can proactively address them.

An alternative set of inclusive questions to consider when conducting an interview, and examples of what an employer cannot ask.

Tips to increasing the inclusiveness of your interviews for candidates with disabilities.

Employers can use the checklist to plan effective recruitment and hiring practices.

Understanding any unintended barriers in the recruitment process can help ensure a more diverse talent pool of candidates.

Common questions and misconceptions that employers have when it comes to hiring people with disabilities.

Learn how YVR delivered Unconscious Bias training to their management team.

HIRE for TALENT shares four steps for creating an inclusive workplace.

To get the most out of using an ASL (American Sign Language) interpreter in your large business’ workplace (whether in-person or virtually), it’s a good idea to educate yourself about what exactly an interpreter does and how they facilitate communication. Here are some basic tips we recommend!

Produced by Mental Health Works, this guide seeks to educate managers and staff on how to better accommodate people with mental health challenges in the workplace.

How reasonable accommodation can benefit your organization.

Information for employers about workplace accommodations.

This free set of tools will guide you through how to be aware of biases in order to create a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone.

These videos are designed to help employers recognize biases, so they can reduce their negative effects in the workplace.

The Implicit Association Test (IAT) measures attitudes and beliefs that people may be unwilling or unable to report.

Tips can help reduce bias in the hiring process.

Employees receiving disability assistance from the provincial government can use an annual earnings exemption to keep more of the money they earn from work.

TeenWork is a youth employment program from CanAssist at the University of Victoria designed to help youth with disabilities find and retain employment.

Vancity wanted to focus their branch staff on customer care. To support this, they hired neurodiverse individuals, many of them on the autism spectrum, to be responsible for providing administrative relief.

There’s a lot of information out there about how to “do accessibility” correctly. We compiled some of the best “how-to” practices, tips, and links into one place—so you can refer back when ensuring your business’ communications are as accessible as possible.

Online tools and platforms can help increase accessibility to public engagement initiatives for those facing barriers. However, it is important to remain mindful of barriers that can impede people from learning about, accessing or participating in a digital engagement event of any kind. Tipsheet created by the SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue.

This procurement strategy developed by YVR gives preference to vendors who practice corporate social responsibility in a variety of areas that are important to YVR including accessibility.

Here’s what Port of Vancouver and BCLC learned by conducting a physical accessibility workplace assessment.

This toolkit by the Mental Health Commission of Canada is meant to help human resources (HR) professionals and those with HR, wellness and diversity responsibilities increase accessibility and inclusiveness and address the needs of workers living with mental illness.

Learn how Vancity amended their interview process to be more inclusive of neurodiverse candidates.

An advanced checklist on how to to ensure your online job applications or website meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

An intermediate checklist to ensure your online job applications or website meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

A basic checklist to ensure your online job applications or website meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.