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Info Session: New! Access Ability Executive Program on disability inclusion in the workplace

A PPF Academy Program

PPF Academy is offering this newly developed program to executives and change leaders across sectors who seek to build a more inclusive workplace to prevent an ableist return to work.
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Access Ability Executive Program: Enabling disability inclusion in the workplace

A PPF Academy Program

PPF Academy is offering this newly developed program to executives and change leaders across sectors who seek to build a more inclusive workplace to prevent an ableist return to work.
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Public Policy Leadership Program

Offered with Telfer School of Management

Telfer and PPF have joined forces and leveraged our individual strengths to enhance your understanding of current and emerging policy challenges while developing the leadership skills needed to be effective in an increasingly complex government system.
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Putting Reconciliation into Practice: Inclusion and Action Leadership Program

A PPF Academy Leadership Program

The program focuses on building a better understanding of Indigenous history and experiences in Canada and explore best practices through a series of interactive sessions and discussions with guest speakers and Indigenous leaders with the objective to increase the participants capacity to plan and implement changes in their organization.
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Action Canada Fellows

Action Canada Fellowship

Since 2003, Action Canada has successfully organized a national fellowship program that emphasizes leadership development and citizenship engagement. It brings together diverse Canadians from across the country to engage in timely, topical and strategic policy issues affecting our country.
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Navigating Policy in an Era of Disruption

Back by popular demand, the Public Policy Forum’s professional development seminar series Keeping Up With the Speed of Disruption is being offered for a third time. This series of learning modules, designed for current and prospective government executives, provides a deep dive into the common threads of information security, privacy, ethics, regulatory implications and sustainability.

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Access Ability Initiative: Research & Professional Development

Enabling an Accessible Return to Work

Together, we can lead an accessible return to work. PPF’s Access Ability Initiative offers Canadian employers, policymakers and disability organizations learning, network, research and collaborative opportunities to build an accessible and inclusive future for all.
Learn moreabout Access Ability Initiative: Research & Professional Development
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Inclusive Futures: Indigenous engagement in Canada’s workforce

An Action Canada Task Force report

Released: Thursday March 12, 2020

This report examines four interlinked factors that contribute to Indigenous inclusion in the labour force and which are incorporated into a suggested framework for developing a tool to measure how inclusive an organization’s workplace is.
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More Than a Place of Refuge: Meaningful engagement of Government-assisted refugees in the future of work

An Action Canada Task Force report

Released: Thursday March 12, 2020

The evolution of the Canadian labour market threatens to aggravate the challenges facing resettled refugees. We propose six recommendations for the Government of Canada to better support GARs to succeed in the labour market.
Learn moreabout More Than a Place of Refuge: Meaningful engagement of Government-assisted refugees in the future of work
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Benefit not Burden: Older workers and the future of work in Canada

An Action Canada Task Force report

Released: Thursday March 12, 2020

This report is about the future of work and how building an inclusive, resilient economic future requires a critical look at how we understand and value older workers.
Learn moreabout Benefit not Burden: Older workers and the future of work in Canada

If you need more information or would like to be a partner, please contact Academy Executive Director Anna Jahn

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