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Mindful Employers Workshop
November 28, 2019 @ 09:00 – 14:00
Agenda:
Department for International Development (DFID) UK, in collaboration with Skill Council for Persons with Disability (SCPwD) is organizing a series of Mindful Employers Workshops. The objective of these workshops is to facilitate inclusion at workplace by reasonable accommodation, strategy, policy interventions and management techniques to support persons with disability from recruitment to retirement.
Objective:
The Mindful Employer workshops aims to develop workforce skills, employment schemes and inclusive environments to support people with disabilities. It also envisages to create confidence for attracting and supporting disabled customers and service users. It also aims at engaging with industry to understand the challenges in hiring of PwDs and the support required for the organisations to become inclusive.
They are designed as a half day programme focusing on meaning if mindful and inclusivity, legislation, leading inclusion and medical and social models of PwD inclusion. The initial sessions of the workshop focuses on discussions related to Intellectual, Visual, Hearing disabilities and Autism.
Concluding session focuses on duties of employers and sharing UK’s best practices.
Who should Attend?
The workshops are intended for participants from all organizations with Inclusion as a part of their organisational strategy.
Speakers:
The workshops will be conducted by National Star Foundation, a UK charitable foundation that delivers specialist residential education to young people with disabilities and specialist teacher education, disability awareness and health and social care training nationally and internationally.
Schedule:
| Date | City | Venue |
| 13 November 2019 | Mumbai | Classroom 2, 2nd Floor, XIMR Building, XRCVC, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai |
| 15 November 2019 | Delhi | Lecture Hall 2, India International Centre, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi |
| 20 November 2019 | Ahmedabad | Porecha Auditorium, Blind People’s Association, IIM cross roads, 132 Feet Ring Rd, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad |
| 28 November 2019 | Bengaluru | SJP 2 Banquet Hall, Tower 4, 4th Floor, Wipro Corporate Office, Doddakannelli, Sarjapur Road, Bengaluru |
Participation Process:
Interested participants are requested to contact us as per the details mentioned below:
Ms. Deepti Singh, Deputy Director – Skills Division
Email: deepti.singh@ficci.com | Contact: (91) 9910412471