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Skip to NavigationThe Technology@Work program, operated by the Neil Squire Society, launched just over a year ago to support employment for people with disabilities. Since then it has helped people like Rahul, Michael and Lori overcome barriers and meet their goals at work.
Last Thursday, in support of September Disability Employment Month in British Columbia, Surrey WorkBC and Neil Squire Society partnered together to provide an introduction to workplace accommodation and open house for members of the media.
Darcy, a student at the University of Victoria, used his background in education to help people with disabilities, both in the job market and on the computer.
“Each time I learned something new,” says Gillian of her experience in the Neil Squire Society’s Distance Computer Comfort program. Gillian signed up for the program two years after high school, wanting “to get a refresher on computers and technology and how they can help me find a job.”
As computers become more and more integral to our world, the skills required to use them have, for many of us, become second nature and something we take for granted. For Lily, this was not the case, yet she was able to find help through the Neil Squire Society’s Computer Comfort program.