Special Interest: Involving Volunteers/Staff with Disabilities/Special Needs

Can we involve volunteers and staff with disabilities or special needs? How should we screen and train them under Plan to Protect®? We want to make our organization accessible for volunteers and staff with disabilities but we don’t even know where to get started? How can we create inclusive safe programs? Let’s Plan to Protect®!

This training is designed for organizations serving the vulnerable sector that would like to hire volunteers or staff with disabilities or special needs? Sarah Chaudhery, O.T. Reg. (ON), Disabilities Coordinator at Plan to Protect®, will answer your questions and provide practical tips for supporting, interacting with and engaging people with disabilities. Sarah will provide some of the benefits of hiring individuals with disabilities as well as discuss how we can go about screening and training them under Plan to Protect®. Let’s raise the bar on protection!

Plan to Protect® offers an extensive series of Special Interest Webinars on topics that interest individuals who work with children, youth, persons with disabilities, or the elderly. Our 60-minute webinars are extremely helpful in approaching a wide variety of topics ranging from administration to leadership to awareness. Each of these webinars is recorded and made available for purchase or FREE for members. Members have access to these FREE webinars on the www.plantoprotect.com website under the members section.

This training is designed for individual access and use ONLY. Organizations that wish to provide group training should contact training@plantoprotect.com for group training options. Use of this training for groups is a breach of copyright and distribution.

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