Richard McCallum of Spinal Cord Injury Canada Address Club Members
Posted by Aneeta Parmar
on Mar 19, 2015
Richard McCallum is the Lead Employment Specialist for the Employment Services team at Spinal Cord Injury Ontario. He graduated from the University of Toronto with BSc. Physical Geography. He has over 14 years’ experience working with people who have a physical disability as a Job Coach and Job Developer. He has been at SCI Ontario for over 6 years as a Job Developer and has assisted people with a physical disability or partially sighted/blind find and maintain meaningful employment in a variety of positions- some that are rather unique. He is always looking for opportunities to help people find employment!
Richard provided an explanation of their employment services, the merits of hiring people with physical disabilities, and ways to assist businesses find suitable staff with physical disabilities or low vision/blind challenges. He also provided examples of types of jobs that SCI Ontario candidates have performed over the past few years.
