Workplace Harassment: Enhancing Community Inclusion is a multifaceted project created to develop tools and resources to enable people with developmental disabilities, frontline staff, and employers to recognize and deal with situations of harassment in the workplace. These tools and resources include: a workshop, CD/video, pamphlets for employers of people with developmental disabilities and front line workers, and a theatre production about workplace harassment.

Funded in part by:

• Calgary Region Community Board, Persons with Developmental Disabilities, Community Capacity Funds, and
• Government of Alberta, Ministry of Community Development, Human Rights, Citizenship and Multiculturalism Education Fund.

Partners:

• Inside/Out Integrated Theatre Project
• Bubonic Tourist

January 2005 to May 2006

• Information for Employers: About Workplace Harassment and Employees with Disabilities

• Information for Support Workers: About Workplace Harassment and Employees with Disabilities

Workplace Harassment: Enhancing Community Inclusion Workshop. Taught with the assistance of peer trainers who have experienced harassment in the workplace firsthand, a facilitator guides individuals with disabilities through a series of interactive activities. Participants learn what workplace harassment is, how to recognize it, how to respond to it and, better still, how to prevent it.

They Pick on Me at Work: A Workbook on Harassment in the Workplace. During the workshop, participants follow along and test their knowledge in the exercises provided. A list of useful resources is included to learn more about workplace harassment.

Who are you? DVD (Also available on VHS). Used in conjunction with the workshop, the DVD shows what workplace harassment looks like. Actors from Calgary’s Inside/Out Integrated Theatre perform four vignettes. Each scene reveals important messages about what people with disabilities can do if they experience workplace harassment.

Who are you? A live performance held on April 27, 2006 at Motel (Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts, Calgary). Written and performed by Inside/Out Integrated Theatre, Who are you? consists of four vignettes that reveal how persons with disabilities may encounter workplace harassment.

• Sordi, A., Coombe, J. (2007, May). They Pick on Me? AAIDD, Atlanta, GA.
• Coombe, J., Bieber, R., Sordi, A. (2006, May). Who Are You? Harassment in the workplace: What it is and Who all are involved? AARC, Edmonton, AB.
• VRRI Research in partnership with Inside/Out Integrated Theatre. (2006, April). Who Are you?: A Play About Workplace Harassment. Epcor Centre, Calgary, AB.

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