MentorAbility Canada
What is MentorAbility?
MentorAbility Canada is a national initiative built on a supported employment foundation that promotes the recruitment, employment, and retention of people experiencing disability. The initiative provides and celebrates in-person and virtual mentoring experiences, networking and learning events, social media campaigns, as well as building a body of evidence through research activities.
With a specific focus on facilitating unique, short-term (from 1 hour to 1 day) mentoring opportunities between employers and people experiencing a disability, this initiative is part of a national effort to promote the employment of Canadians experiencing disability.
700+
Facilitated Mentorships
400+
Employers Engaged
200+
Communities Engaged
1000+
MentorAbility Events
MentorAbility Experience Stories
Get to know the stories of the people involved in facilitated mentorships with MentorAbility Canada. Each story showcases a unique experience between a mentor and mentee, and the local supported employment service provider that facilitated it.
To learn more about the impact that the MentorAbility Canada program is having from coast to coast to coast, read from our collection of shared experience stories:
Who Can Participate?
Employers
Is your organization interested in expanding its workplace diversity and strengthening workplace culture and employee engagement startegies? Become a MentorAbility partner and offer your staff opportunities to become a MentorAbility mentor!
Service Providers
Are you an employment service provider interested in expanding and strengthening your employer engagement while providing valuable career exploration opportunities for your clients who experience a disability? Become a MentorAbility partner today!
Job Seekers
Are you a person with a disability? Do you want to be part of the workforce? Would you like to meet people to learn more about a career that interests you? Participate in a MentorAbility mentorship!
All MentorAbility Participants Benefit:
- Local employment service providers (site partners) connect with a national network, build value added relationships with local employers, and offer unique career development experience to their clients.
- People experiencing a disability who are actively seeking employment (protégés) are matched with a mentor to learn more about careers that interest them.
- Employers and individuals interested in offering mentoring opportunities (employers and mentors), including private businesses, non-profit and public service organizations, learn inclusive employment strategies and connect with a pool of potential future employees.
MentorAbility Hubs
MentorAbility Canada is coordinated by CASE in collaboration with implementing partners, called “MentorAbility Hubs”, that are located across the country. Together we provide information, knowledge, and tools to facilitate beneficial short-term mentoring opportunities for employers, mentors and jobseekers.
Hubs are the first connection point for local employment service providers (site partners), persons experiencing disability (protégés) and employers (mentors ) to connect with the national MentorAbility Canada network.
Ten MentorAbility Canada provincial hubs, along with many site partners, offer resources and information, and/or facilitate mentoring experiences across Canada.
Explore the MentorAbility Hubs below and connect with the Hub in your region today.
Connect With Your Local MentorAbility Hub
Alberta Hub:
Gateway Association
Contact Person: Jasmine Hasiuk
Email: jasmine@gatewayassociation.ca
Tel No: 1-780-454-0701 ext. 129
British Columbia Hub:
Inclusion BC
Contact Person: Tina Dam
Email: tinadam@inclusionbc.org
Tel No: 1-604-902-6794
Location: Interior and Northern British Columbia
Contact Person: Sonali Kuber
Email: skuber@inclusionbc.org
Tel No: 1-604-374-8422
Manitoba Hub:
Work And Social Opportunities (WASO)
Contact Person: Wade Slater
Email: wslater@waso.ca
Tel No: 1-204-226-2844
New Brunswick Hub:
Avenue NB
Contact Person: Coming Soon
Email: mentorabilitycanada@supportedemployment.ca
Nova Scotia Hub:
TEAM Work Cooperative
Contact Person: David Wareing
Email: dwareing@teamworkbridge.org
Tel No: 1-902-422-8900
Newfoundland & Labrador Hub:
Avalon Employment Inc.
Contact Person: Courtney Abbott
Email: courtney@avalonemploy.com
Tel No: 1-709-579-4866
Nunavut Hub:
Nunavummi Disabilities Makinnasuaqtiit Society (NDMS)
Contact Person: Lisa Spencer
Email: LIsa.Spencer@nuability.ca
Tel No: 1-902-577-3066
Ontario Hub:
March of Dimes Canada
Contact Person: Lisa Livingston
Email: llivingston@marchofdimes.ca
Tel No: 1-519-579-5530 ext. 262
Ontario Hub:
Ontario Disability Employment Network (ODEN)
Contact Person: Jenny Hope
Email: jhope@odenetwork.com
Tel No: 1-866-280-6366 ext. 102
Prince Edward Island Hub:
ResourceAbilities
Contact Person: Mark Cameron
Email:mark@resourceabilities.ca
Tel No: 1-902-892-9149 ext. 226
Quebec Hub:
Contact Person: Coming Soon
Email: mentorabilitycanada@supportedemployment.ca
Saskatchewan Hub:
SaskAbilities Regina
Contact Person: Coming Soon
Email: mentorabilitycanada@supportedemployment.ca
Yukon Hub
Northwest Territories Hub
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