Deadline: 4-Oct-24
The Enabling Accessibility Fund (EAF) is looking for dynamic youth who want to demonstrate leadership and a commitment to their communities.
What this program stream offers?
- The EAF Youth Innovation Component provides an opportunity for dynamic youth who want to demonstrate leadership and a commitment to their communities to have a direct impact in the lives of persons with disabilities.
- By becoming a Youth Accessibility Leader (YAL), you will promote the program and encourage organizations to apply for its funding. You can do this by addressing accessibility barriers in public spaces or workplaces within your community. Through this work, you will volunteer your time to:
- create greater awareness about accessibility needs
- encourage organizations to apply for EAF funding to address existing accessibility barriers, and
- build a more inclusive and accessible Canada
Benefits of being a YAL
- Increased awareness of accessibility barriers in your community
- Personal and community empowerment
- Valuable presentation skills
- Experience preparing or assisting in preparing project proposals
- Networking opportunities, and
- Social responsibility and volunteer experience that impacts your community
Role of the Youth Accessibility Leader
- As a Youth Accessibility Leader, you will be part of a growing community of youth from across the country that have:
- found accessibility barriers in workplaces or public spaces
- talked with organizations about their existing accessibility barriers
- encouraged organizations to apply for funding to address their accessibility barriers
- helped an organization draft a project proposal
- helped promote the program within your community, online and at media events, and
- made a difference in the lives of persons with disabilities
Eligibility Criteria
- They want you and what you have to offer, if you:
- are determined to make a difference in your community
- want to develop valuable skills and gain key experience
- To be considered eligible you must be:
- between 15 and 30 years of age at the time of the application
- legally authorized to work in Canada
- either a Canadian citizen, permanent resident or individual who has been granted refugee status in Canada
- As an eligible Youth Accessibility Leader, you can collaborate with the following eligible organization types:
- not-for-profit organizations
- small businesses (99 full-time equivalent employees or less)
- Indigenous organizations
- municipalities
- territorial governments
Ineligible
- The following organizations are not eligible to apply for funding:
- federal and provincial governments
- public health care facilities and public hospitals, including projects that take place on public health care and public hospital property. Health care facilities that are private and meet the eligibility criteria above may be eligible
- public schools (primary and secondary), including organizations submitting proposals for projects that would take place on property under the jurisdiction of public schools (e.g., board offices). An exception would be registered and/or licensed Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC) centres where the proposed activity is solely for the use of the childcare centre/program
For more information, visit Employment and Social Development Canada.