Organizer: Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work (CCRW)
Title: WESP Program – Spring Employment Preparation Workshops
Category: Employment
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Date: April 4, 2016 – April 22, 2016
Telephone: 416-260-3060 ext. 232
E-mail: cmacdiarmid@ccrw.org
Web site: http://www.ccrw.org/wesp
Description: WESP (Workplace Essential Skills Partnership) is CCRW’s Toronto-based employment preparation program for job seekers with disabilities living in the GTA. Our workshop component enhances our clients’ job search skills, preparing them for our job development component.
Organizer: Canadian Association of College and University Student Services (CACUSS)
Title: National Campus Mental Health Webinar – Canadian Association of College and University Student Services (CACUSS)
Category: Education
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Date: April 7, 2016
Telephone: 1-647-345-1116
Web site: http://www.cacuss.ca/cgi/page.cgi/_evtcal.html?evt=169#sthash.xlCMoYGD.dpuf
Description: Save the Date – National Campus Mental Health CoP Webinar
April 7, 2016, 12:00 – 1:30 PM EST
The Canadian Association of College and University Student Services (CACUSS), Campus Mental Health: our CoP invites you to join us in a webinar to discuss what common interests, concerns, or hopes regarding Campus Mental Health bring us together as a community.
Organizer: Canadian Disability Studies Association (CDSA)
Title: 11th Annual Canadian Disability Studies Association (CDSSA)
Category: Education
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Date: April 8, 2016
Web site: https://cdssa.wordpress.com/
Description: 11th Annual Canadian Disability Studies Association (CDSSA) Conference: Crippin’ Canada
April 8th, 2016
York University, Toronto
York University’s Critical Disability Studies Student Association (CDSSA) is pleased to announce that our eleventh annual conference will be held on Keele campus on April 8th, 2016.
Organizer: Coalition for Disability Access in Health Science and Medical Education
Title: 3rd Annual Disability in Health Science and Medicine Symposium
Category: Education
Location: San Francisco, California
Date: April 14, 2016 – April 16, 2016
Web site: http://meded.ucsf.edu/msds/symposium
Description: 3rd Annual Disability in Health Science and Medicine Symposium
Registration is now open to the public for the 3rd Annual Symposium; sponsored by the Coalition for Disability Access in Health Science and Medical Education; in San Francisco.
The Symposium will be held April 14 and 15, 2016 at the University of California , San Francisco – Mission Bay campus.
Please pay special attention to both the hotel information and the Symposium rate information in the link. Please reserve your hotel room and register as soon as possible as spaces will be filling up fast. For Symposium registration, please click “here” under “Symposium rate” in the link.
http://meded.ucsf.edu/msds/symposium
Organizer: University of Hawai’i Center on Disability Studies
Title: 32nd Annual Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity
Category: Education
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Date: April 25, 2016 – April 26, 2016
Telephone: 808-956-7539
E-mail: prinfo@hawaii.edu
Web site: http://www.pacrim.hawaii.edu
Description: The 32nd Annual Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity will be held on April 25-26, 2016, at the Hawai’i Convention Center in Honolulu. Our Call for Proposals will begin on September 15, 2015, so be sure to submit your ideas to us early! For more information, please visit us at www.pacrim.hawaii.edu, or feel free to e-mail us at prinfo@hawaii.edu, or call us at 1-808-956-7539.
Organizer: Tangled Art + Disability
Title: Cripping the Arts Symposium
Category: Accessibility
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Date: April 28, 2016 – April 30, 2016
Telephone: 647-725-5064
E-mail: eliza@tangledarts.org
Web site: http://tangledarts.org/
Description: Tangled Art + Disability presents Cripping the Arts, a three-day symposium from April 28-30th 2016, which seeks to advance Deaf and Disability arts in Canada by addressing the question: How do Deaf, disabled, and Mad people access the arts both as audience members and creators?