Many persons with disabilities have not had equal access to work experience opportunities. Often persons with disabilities have experienced hiring barriers based on fear and ignorance or just lack of awareness.
Diversity is an invaluable asset to any environment. When differently skilled individuals contribute to common goals while working in collaboration with their colleagues, dynamic and creative work forces develop.
There is a tremendous amount of online resources that provide information and support. This is just a sampling and many of these sites have further suggestions through their links pages.
We would be interested in knowing about the website you have found to be useful. Email your suggestions to
: allison.jones@disabilityaccess.org

Information and resources

Have you ever wanted an easy way to search for social services, transportation information and community organizations available in your region?
Check out the Community Information Database for your region. These databases contain information about social, health and government services.

Peel Information Database: Listing more than 1700 services and organizations for Brampton, Caledon and Mississauga.
Peel Information Network

Halton Information Database: Browse listings of local agencies in the region of Halton, including Burlington, Halton Hills, Milton and Oakville.
Halton Information Network

The Community Information Online Consortium: If you want to search for community information in more than one regions at a time you can visit this link.
Community Info Online

Dufferin County Homepage: offers a community calendar, county services and government administration links and more for residents of Mono, Orangeville, Shelburne and the surrounding rural townships.
Dufferin County

Person with Disabilities On Line provides information on a full range of disability related services and programs locally and nationwide.
PWD Online

Barrier Free Employment from the Canadian Human Rights Commission introduces the rights and responsibilities related to employment issues such as disclosure and accommodations
Barrier Free Employment

Mental Health Works: A partnership of the Canadian Mental Health Association and HRSDC
Mental Health works is a comprehensive resource that examines the perspective of the employee and the employer. Detailed information on the topic of disclosure and accommodation issues. Learn if, what and when to tell you employers about your mental health issues and the rights and responsibilities accorded by law.
www.mentalhealthworks.ca

WorkInk: The Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work.
Presents Canada’s largest Virtual Employment Resource Centre for Persons with Disabilities
www.workink.com

Canadian Council on Social Development: Established by the Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD), with financial support from Human Resources Development Canada which provides centralized access to information about disability research (HRDC).
CSSD

The Canadian Abilities Foundation hosts this very useful site that covers a variety of issues and a directory of disability organizations. Linking people with disabilities to a world of resources
EnableLink

Learning Disability Websites

Learning Disabilities of Canada
www.ldac-taac.ca

Learning Disabilities Resource Community
www.ldrc.ca

Literacy Websites

The Ontario Literacy Coaltion
www.on.literacy.ca

The Movement for Canadian Literacy
www.literacy.ca

National Adult Learning Database
www.nald.ca