{"id":6462,"date":"2023-06-09T10:07:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T14:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/?p=6462"},"modified":"2025-04-21T09:08:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:08:59","slug":"sharing-knowledge-a-conversation-with-the-inclusive-workplace-and-supply-council-of-canada-iwscc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/2023\/sharing-knowledge-a-conversation-with-the-inclusive-workplace-and-supply-council-of-canada-iwscc\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing Knowledge: A Conversation with the Inclusive Workplace and Supply Council of Canada (IWSCC)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Sharing Knowledge: A Conversation with the Inclusive Workplace and Supply Council of Canada (IWSCC)\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The Accessibility Institute recently collaborated with the <a href=\"https:\/\/iwscc.ca\">Inclusive Workplace and Supply Council of Canada (IWSCC)<\/a>, in a&nbsp;knowledge sharing discussion about the value of an inclusive mindset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the session, <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/people\/tara-connolly\/\">Tara Connolly<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/people\/julie-caldwell\/\">Julie Caldwell<\/a> of Carleton&#8217;s Accessibility Institute, as well as Deidre Guy, president and co-founder of IWSCC, sat down to discuss&nbsp;accessibility research, the key to inclusive mindsets, and the power of building communities. The conversation also emphasized the efforts of the <a href=\"http:\/\/can-rca.ca\">Canadian Accessibility Network (CAN)<\/a>, led&nbsp;by the Accessibility Institute, to build a network and community of accessibility champions across Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Inclusive Workplace and Supply Council of Canada (IWSCC) is a Canadian non-profit organization that supports Veterans and\/or persons with disabilities who own businesses. They provide certifications that allow these businesses to be officially recognized as Diverse Suppliers, as well as collaborate with corporate partners to improve workplace and procurement process inclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cQHvblScZ24\">See the full conversation now on the IWSCC YouTube Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Accessibility Institute recently collaborated with the Inclusive Workplace and Supply Council of Canada (IWSCC), in a&nbsp;knowledge sharing discussion about the value of an inclusive mindset. During the session, Tara Connolly and Julie Caldwell of Carleton&#8217;s Accessibility Institute, as well as Deidre Guy, president and co-founder of IWSCC, sat down to discuss&nbsp;accessibility research, the key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6651,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6462\/revisions\/6651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}