CIWA plays a leading role in coordinating projects designed to prevent workplace injuries and to assist injured workers groups. Some of our most recent projects address such areas as information exchange, leadership training and injury prevention. Details of recent projects are provided below.:
- Peer Support Pilot Project: This project developed a model of peer support that can be used by injured workers groups. Four peer support groups were created with three continuing operation across Northwestern Ontario. We learned about peer support by listening to their experiences at the project's evaluation session in July...
- Exploring Barriers to & Strategies for Enabling Return to Function/Return to Work (RTF/RTW) for persons with Chronic Disability Since the Summer of 2005, CIWA has been in partnership with the University of Western Ontario and Dr. Lynn Shaw in a research study. We are looking for participants of injured workers who have a chronic disability, and have been out of the workforce for over two years. We are beginning the...
- Spreading the Word Project vision: To expand the participation of injured and disabled workers in local leadership, thereby increasing the effectiveness of our organizations. To expand our organizational capacity through building support and partnerships. This project built on our experiences with the...
- Speakers Bureau: This project focused on increasing awareness of the barriers injured and disabled workers face while getting back to work following a workplace accident or disease. In fact, almost 75% of workers with a permanent disability are chronically unemployed. We want to build support to improve these...
- Survivors Forum: Nine Survivors Forums were organized in seven locations across Northern Ontario during the winter of 1996-97. The presentations began with a sixteen minute video presentation of disabled workers and their family members talking about their experiences, providing an opening for participants to...
- Coming Together - Development and Organizational Capacity-Building Project: This project is being designed to address the barriers that exist to forming provincial injured and disabled workers groups. The vision of the project is to share the experiences that many have gained from creating provincial organizations in the past. In order to accomplish this, we will be...
- Youth Project: What is the need for a Youth Project? Significant barriers (such as poor or limited access to information and support) exist for youth dealing with workplace injuries, diseases, and/or disabilities. Therefore, improving access to information and creating support systems are important issues to be...
