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Mental Health Matters
Did you know that 1 in 5 people have a mental disability? Progression invites you to attend the 6th Annual Disability Conference in Johannesburg on 19 September 2017. This year’s theme is “Let’s Talk Mental Health” and highlights the fact that not all disabilities are visible. We unpack important topics around mental disa...
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Access@Progression Announces their 6th Annual Disability Conference.
The 2017 Disability Conference will take place on the 19th of September at the Southern Sun OR Tambo International Airport. The focus of this year’s conference is on mental health and aims to explore the dynamics of mental health in the workplace.
“Mental illness is an all too often shunned and stigmatised topic,”...
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Progression's Panel Event advocates Disability Awareness
November 2016
On 20 September 2016 Progression’s Assessment Centre, Access@Progression, hosted its first ever disability panel event at the Southern Sun Hyde Park. The 4-hour session, presented in a Q&A format, allowed a panel of experts to answer employers’ questions and unpacked best practice approaches to integrating p...
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Progression launches special for National Disability Rights Awareness Month
To kick off National Disability Rights Awareness Month, Progression will be offering a free Disability Awareness Day (valued at R30 000) to clients who sign off on learnership programmes for the January/ February 2017 period.
We have the foll...
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Progression's Assessment Centre Announces Panel Event
Progression’s recently launched Assessment Centre is happy to announce that it will be introducing a new Disability event to its clients in September. The event will take the form of a panel discussion incorporating facilitated Question & Answer sessions with a variety of industry experts who will unpack why employing people with disab...
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Inclusion of People with Disabilities Starts with a Conversation
June 2016
“Not everyone with a disability experiences their condition in the same way. It therefore follows that reasonable accommodation cannot be the same for every individual with a disability.” So how...
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Highlights from the Progression Disability Conference 2015
The 4th annual Disability Conference which took place from 8-9 September 2015 in Pretoria, saw a number of keynote speakers exploring the tools, technologies and systems for creating accessibility for people with disabilities in the workplace.
The annual Disability Conference, hosted by Progression, a specialist...
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Addressing Our Thinking Towards Disability
3 December 2015 is recognised by the United Nations as International Day for Persons with Disabilities. The theme for 2015, as laid out by the United Nations, is a simple yet powerful message: Inclusion Matters!
Justene Smith, Disability Expert at Progression, shares her insights about what we need to consider when addressing our att...
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Progression's Disability Conference Unpacks Reasonable Accommodation
Continuing the success of 2015’s Disability Conference, Progression is bringing its 5th Annual Disability Conference for the first time to Cape Town, at the Protea Fire & Ice! Hotel on Thursday 9 June 2016.
The programme...
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