Online Training
Disability Inclusion in the Workplace
Skills and strategies to enable you to create an environment where your colleagues with and without a disability can thrive
27 November 2024
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM AEDT
Next intake: 27 November 2024 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM AEDT
Overview
Even though organisations may prioritise diversity as a top value, oftentimes people with disabilities receive little assistance. Welcoming people with disabilities in a workplace is important in building a diverse workforce and ensuring you are engaging all the talent you need to succeed.
Over the course of this 1-day workshop you will
- develop an understanding of how and why disability is a diversity and human rights issue.
- gain knowledge and an understanding of the history, culture, and concept of disability.
- build confidence on being able to communicate with people with disability.
- acquire tools required to help break down some of the barriers people with disability may experience in the workplace and beyond
You will take a deep dive into creating a culture that invites, accepts and supports people with disabilities. The course will equip you with the strategies, tools and a mindset that you can bring into your workplace.
Whether you are just getting started in your diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion career, managing staff or wanting to enhance your current practices, this training course is for you. Through a mix of learning modules, self-reflective and group exercises, this peer to leer learning environment will provide actionable steps designed to help you continue creating a culture of empathy and inclusion for all.
Who Should Attend?
Manager, Specialists, Leads ofLearning Outcomes
Online Training
Disability Inclusion in the Workplace
Session details
- Define disability inclusion and its significance in the workplace.
- Provide practical strategies for creating an inclusive and supportive work environment
- Engage HR professionals and leadership in developing inclusive policies and practices
View course modules
Level: Fundamentals
No previous experience necessary
Key Sessions
- Introduce yourself to the group
- Meet other participants
- Cover housekeeping matters
- Commit to group rules
- What is disability?
- Statistics and facts on people with disability
- What are the models of disability?
- What is ableism?
- What is intersectionality?
- What is unconscious bias?
Communicating with people with disability
- What is respectful and appropriate language?
- What are different communication tools?
- How you can adopt best practice when delivering services
- What language and etiquette you can use
- How you can use tools and strategies to ensure you communicate effectively and appropriately
- What are barriers to people with disability?
- How you can help people with disability access everyday life
- How to put all the elements of diversity together to help people with disability
- Use practical tools to create solutions that help deliver accessible and inclusive work environments
- Q&A
- Resources and reflections
- Closing remarks
Meet Your Facilitator
Mel Harrison
Founder, Sitting Low; Reaching High
Mel Harrison is a person with disability who uses a wheelchair and wears hearing aids. She is a consultant in disability, diversity, and inclusion, and a long-time advocate for people with disability. Mel values policy and services co-design with people with disability and draws on her lived experiences and those of people around her. She specialises in undertaking training and facilitation work through her business, Sitting Low, Reaching High.
In her consultancy work, Mel promotes networking and high social impact activities and facilitates disability co-design through her projects. She has worked in the Australian disability and community services space for 25 years, including at peak national, New South Wales, and Queensland disability organisations. Her experience includes training people and organisations across the nation in vital areas such as disability awareness, violence prevention, positive sexuality, healthy relationships, and more.
Mel also has experience in individual advocacy, including facilitating the investigation of situations where people with disability have experienced abuse. Her advocacy efforts have extended to systemic advocacy and policy work at the state, territory, and national levels.
She has a keen sense of humour and extensive experience running functions and events. Mel has MC’d many large events, including state disability expos up and down the east coast. Her passion lies in breaking down barriers for people with disability in areas such as work, education, relationships, and recreational activities. She strives to help people across the nation understand that you never know someone’s ability unless you give them a chance.
Mel strongly believes that inclusion and diversity are needed in every aspect of life in the world we live in today. She currently works with organisations such as Lifeline Australia, ImpactInstitute, Rights & Inclusion Australia (R&IA), the Australian Centre for Disability Law (ACDL), and Sexual Health and Family Planning ACT (SHFPACT) to facilitate disability inclusion and enhance community understandings of the importance of diversity.
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