Key Dates
PEAC 500: Developing Accessible Workplace Practices (Carleton Accessibility Institute)
Date: Tuesday, September 16th - Thursday, September 18th, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: Online via Zoom
What You’ll Learn
By the end of PEAC 500, you will learn how to:
- Build a Vision for Accessibility: Identify the key elements necessary for building a vision and commitment to accessibility in your workplace.
- Develop Disability Confidence: Understand key concepts like disability confidence and workplace accessibility, ensuring your organization moves beyond basic compliance.
- Navigate Employment Standards: Gain practical insights into employment accessibility standards and policies, recognizing how to apply them in a real-world setting.
- Turn Vision into Action: Discover how to turn your commitment to accessibility into action by developing inclusive policies, systems, and a clear organizational vision.
- Enhance the Employee Experience: Identify, evaluate and apply accessibility best practices at every stage of the employment life cycle from hiring to career advancement.
- Lead with Confidence & Accountability: Gain skills to drive accessibility-focused decision-making, advocate for change, and promote leadership accountability to create an inclusive workplace.
You can find more detailed information and register HERE
SeaChange CoLab Training: Organization-Wide Accessibility
Dates: October 2nd - October 30th, 2025
Time: Any time (self-paced)
Location: Online
4-week blended trainings including live Zoom sessions at the beginning and end of four self-paced online modules.
For an organization-wide accessibility plan to be impactful, staff at every level must understand and embrace an approach that supports all employees, including those with disabilities.
- Assess your organization: what is working well, existing gaps, and strategies to address barriers
- Develop and sustain an organization-wide accessibility plan
- Establish organizational values that embrace the “Accessibility is Everyone’s Responsibility” mindset
- Establish workplace expectations and policies
- Ensure accessibility is integral to the recruitment and hiring process
- Empower individuals to request and receive reasonable accommodations
- And more!
PEAC 600: Creating Accessible Learning Environments (Carleton Accessibility Institute)
Date: Tuesday, October 28th - Thursday, October 30th, 2025
Time: 12:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: Online via Zoom
What You’ll Learn
By the end of PEAC 600, you will learn how to:
- Create Inclusive Learning Environments: Implement proven strategies to foster accessible and engaging online and in-person learning experiences.
- Design for Diversity: Apply accessible and inclusive design principles to create dynamic, flexible, and diversity-conscious learner engagement, assessments, and activities.
- Identify Effective Accommodations: Identify and integrate systemic and process-related accommodations that ensure all learners can fully participate and succeed.
- Connect Accessibility & Learning Theories: Enrich traditional learning theories by applying an accessibility lens to a variety of learning experiences.
- Train the Trainer: Identify strategies for training others in accessibility and disability awareness, applying accessible best practices.
- Plan for Impact: Develop a clear action plan to incorporate accessibility improvements into your current educational or training programs.
Find more detailed Information and register HERE
SeaChange CoLab Training: Multi-generational Workplaces and Disability
Date: Wednesday, October 29th, 2025
Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: Online
During this skill builder, we will:
- Define generational perspectives on disability and explain differences in how disability is understood and experienced across age groups.
- Explain how generational mindsets and intersectionality influence disclosure, inclusion, and access in the workplace.
- Identify inclusive leadership practices that support accessibility and psychological safety across generations.
- Apply inclusive strategies to create or strengthen disability-inclusive practices in your own workplace or team.
SeaChange CoLab Training: Accessible Customer Service
Date: Thursday, November 27th, 2025
Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: Online
During this skill builder, we will:
- Identify how to communicate with customers who have various disabilities
- Explore how to interact with customers who:
- Use service animals, support persons, assistive devices
- Are neurodivergent
- Identify how to use any devices or equipment the provider may have to help customers access goods or services
- Practice how to assist a customer having difficulty accessing goods or services