About Us
At Canadian Partners in Workforce Innovation (CAN WiN), we are dedicated to helping employers create inclusive and accessible workplaces while connecting talented job seekers with disabilities to meaningful employment opportunities. Operated by Open Door Group, this federally-funded initiative supports employers across British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, and Ontario in meeting workforce needs through inclusive hiring and retention practices.
We aim to create stronger, more inclusive workplaces by offering:
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Workplace Inclusivity and Accessibility Assessments: Identifying ways to make your organization more inclusive.
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Training and Advisory Services: Equipping employers with strategies to effectively recruit, hire, and retain employees with disabilities.
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Awareness and Recognition Campaigns: Promoting the value of inclusive employment and celebrating accessible workplaces.
By partnering with CAN WiN, employers have developed successful inclusive hiring strategies, matched with talented job seekers, enhanced organizational capacity through training, and fostered diverse workplaces that thrive on innovation. Together, we can build a future where accessibility and inclusivity are at the core of every workplace.
Why Partner With Us?
Business Focused – Our services are rooted in understanding Employer Partners’ unique and varied business needs and collaboratively delivering to those needs to increase workforce inclusion of people with disabilities.
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Continuous Learning – We embrace continued growth opportunities, learning from job seekers with disabilities, Employer Partners, Service Partners, researchers, and leaders in inclusive employment.
Innovation - We are innovators. We strategize to remove hiring and retention barriers for job seekers with disabilities, and share resources widely.
Collaboration - We work collaboratively with our Employer and Service Partners to make a significant collective impact on employment outcomes for people with disabilities in Canada.
The Four Pillars of Accessible Employment
Throughout the work we do, CAN WiN applies The Four Pillars model of accessible and inclusive employment, helping build employer capacity to successfully hire and retain employees with disabilities.
Our four pillars are: Commitment, Readiness, Recruitment and Retention.
Where We Work
We offer accessible employment services for eligible employers, job seekers, and employment agencies in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario.
Operated By Open Door Group
Open Door Group is leading the way with the CAN WiN expansion and is the project holder with the Government of Canada’s Opportunities Fund for Persons with Disabilities. Thanks to this initiative, employers, job seekers, and employment service agencies across Canada can benefit from free access to CAN WiN services.
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Open Door Group has been opening doors to lifelong learning and career success throughout BC since 1976. At Open Door Group we foster well-being for all by opening doors to sustainable and meaningful employment. We pride ourselves on modeling a culture of authenticity, transparency and inclusion. Our values are based on the genuine belief that all individuals can succeed and are the drivers of their own success.
