Neurodivergent resources

Neurodivergent Workplace & Career Resources

📍 BC 🇨🇦 Canada 🌍 International

Why This Matters

Neurodivergent individuals have long faced, and continue to face, barriers to employment, pushed out of workplaces that were never built for them. With the right accommodations, support, and employer education, meaningful work becomes possible, and the strengths neurodivergent people bring speak for themselves.

78%

of neurodivergent workers feel overwhelmed at work

10–20×

more likely to hold precarious or temporary employment

+30%

more productive when workplace needs are met

Know your rights

Workplace Accommodations

Workplace accommodation means modifying the work environment so that employees with disabilities, injuries, or health conditions can perform their roles safely, effectively, and without unnecessary barriers. Under the Canadian Human Rights Act and BC's Human Rights Code, employers have a legal duty to accommodate employees with disabilities, up to the point of undue hardship. You have the right to ask for what you need to succeed at work.

Government of Canada – Accommodation

Federal guidance on the duty to accommodate employees with disabilities, including the accommodation process, employer obligations, and employee rights under the Canadian Human Rights Act.

CADDAC - ADHD Workplace Accommodation

Provides community inclusion resources, legal advocacy, and support to navigate disability benefits.

Disability Alliance BC - To Share or Not to Share

Navigating when, how, and whether to share your neurodivergent identity at work.

Employment Programs

For Job Seekers

📍 British Columbia

WorkBC People with Disabilities

BC Government service: Job options, education funding, assistive adaptations, work experience, job skills training, and business creation support.

CAN-STEP (Canucks Autism Network)

5 weeks classroom training + 6 weeks work experience for autistic youth and adults. Currently focused on the hospitality industry.

Employment Works (EW) Canada

Provides personalized, practical employment support to help Autistic, neurodivergent, and people with disabilities get and keep a job.

posAbilities Employment

Assists individuals with diverse abilities to prepare for, secure, and maintain competitive employment, with on-the-job training and support.

Work-Able Accessible Employment Program

Paid internship and work-experience initiative run by the BC Public Service for recent post-secondary graduates who self-identify as having a disability.

📍 Canada

Federal Student Work Experience Program

Hundreds of career paths across the Government of Canada. Self-declare as person with disability to access reserved positions.

🌍 International

Auticon International

Autistic-led IT consulting firm operating globally. If you're an autistic IT professional, Auticon offers employment and support internationally.

Building Inclusive Workplaces

For Employers

Guides, Trainings & Programs

UBC - Autism and Neurodiversity in the Workplace

Free online program for human resource professionals, employers, supervisors, managers, co-workers, job coaches and counsellors, autistic employees, parents, students, and anyone interested in inclusive employment to learn practical strategies on how to support all employees to be successful on the job.

Ask JAN – Workplace Accommodations Database

Search hundreds of specific workplace accommodations for neurodivergent employees.

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A Resource for Your Community

The best resources come from lived experience. If you know an advocacy organization, peer support group, or community space serving neurodivergent people that belongs here, tell us. Your input helps us keep this page reflective of the real networks supporting neurodivergent communities.