Employment Support
Working NB
https://workingnb.ca/
WorkingNB Offices
WorkingNB services are available to New Brunswick employers and individuals looking for support.
Any New Brunswick employer, regardless the size, that has human resource challenges, including recruitment, retention and training, can reach out to WorkingNB for support through a workforce consultant.
Any New Brunswicker looking for career or training opportunities can connect with a WorkingNB employment counsellor.
The Future Skills Centre
https://fsc-ccf.ca/
The Future Skills Centre is dedicated to helping Canadians gain the skills they need to thrive in a changing labour market. They focus on strengthening Canada’s skills development ecosystem so that Canadians can look to a future of meaningful and relevant lifelong learning opportunities. In their work, they follow five principles: agility, collaboration, inclusion, excellence and impact.
Inclusion is a thread that runs through everything they do: generating insights that advance a future of shared prosperity that leaves no-one behind is core to their mission.
To learn more about their research, visit https://fsc-ccf.ca/research/neurodiversity-in-workplace/
Advocacy
Inclusion NB (Formerly NBACL)
https://nbacl.nb.ca/
Inclusion NB, formerly known as the New Brunswick Association for Community Living (NBACL/ANBIC) is a provincial, non-profit organization that works with and on behalf of children and adults with an intellectual disability and their families.
It is estimated that 22,000 New Brunswickers have an intellectual disability. Established in 1957, NBACL works to build inclusive communities where children and adults with an intellectual disability can live, learn, work, and play. Working in areas across the lifespan – from early learning and child care to will and estate planning, changing lives, changing communities, and defending rights. At NBACL, we do “whatever it takes, for as long as it takes.”
New Brunswick will be an inclusive society in which all citizens feel that they belong, and in which all individuals have the means and opportunity to participate in the social and economic life of the province. (NBACL, 1999)
Staff members work provincially, based out of seven regional offices. Offices are located in: Fredericton (head office), Moncton, Saint John, Edmundston, Bathurst, Miramichi and St. George.
Resources & Tools for Learning
The Autism and/or Intellectual Disability Knowledge Exchange Network
https://aidecanada.ca/
At its core, the Autism and/or Intellectual Disability Knowledge Exchange Network (AIDE Canada) is a tool to connect members of the autistic community to the information and resources that they need. They deliver credible, reliable, and evidence-informed resources in an unbiased and accessible way. AIDE Canada is funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada.
AIDE has created and collaborated on an abundance of helpful articles, lending libraries, videos, workshops & toolkits, research & studies, infographics, and more all made to be shared within the neurodivergent community.