Une différence de potential : Recruter, embaucher et employer des personnes handicapées

Toronto – The unemployment rate for people with disabilities is alarmingly high. Although these people offer a great pool of talent, they remain untapped and detached from the mainstream workforce.

Career counselling, and perhaps more importantly, equity in career counselling, is a pressing issue. CERIC’s (The Canadian Education Research Institute for Counselling) vision is to increase the economic and social wealth and productivity of Canadians through improved quality, effectiveness and accessibility of counselling programs especially in the areas of career counselling and career education. In working towards this vision and with the support of the Counselling Foundation of Canada, CERIC has developed and distributed a timely documentary entitled “A Difference of Ability: Recruiting, Hiring and Employing People with Disabilities.”…