{"id":840266,"date":"2026-08-01T11:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T11:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840266\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T11:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T11:30:16","slug":"inclusion-canada-highlights-untapped-workforce-of-canadians-with-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840266\/","title":{"rendered":"Inclusion Canada Highlights Untapped Workforce of Canadians with Disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/avalon-employjent-inclusion.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Inclusion Canada Highlights Untapped Workforce of Canadians with Disabilities\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emily Smith on the job (photo submitted by Inclusion Canada)<\/p>\n<p>About 400 Newfoundlanders and Labradorians are among the 6,300 people across Canada who have secured meaningful employment through Inclusion Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The organization runs a Ready, Willing and Able program connecting employers with people with intellectual disabilities and autism who are eager and willing to work.<\/p>\n<p>Inclusion Canada says as employers search for talent, the country is overlooking workers who can help fill those labour gaps.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/frank-fagan-inclusion-canada.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-305821\" class=\"size-full wp-image-305821\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/frank-fagan-inclusion-canada.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-305821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Fagan of Inclusion Canada (submitted)<\/p>\n<p>Frank Fagan of Inclusion Canada says the country has an enormous and untapped pool of job seekers.<\/p>\n<p>He says there are half a million Canadians with autism or an intellectual disability who are looking for work. \u201cThey run the gamut of everything from folks looking for their first-time job at McDonald\u2019s, up to lawyers looking to start their own practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Employers interested in participating in Ready, Willing and Able are encouraged to reach out to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inclusioncanada.ca\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Inclusion Canada.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Emily Smith on the job (photo submitted by Inclusion Canada) About 400 Newfoundlanders and Labradorians are among&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,269876,44,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-840266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}