Exhibitor’s List will be updated upon registration.
Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB)
Founded in 1918, the CNIB Foundation is a non-profit organization driven to change what it is to be blind today. We deliver innovative programs and powerful advocacy that empowers people impacted by blindness to live their dreams and tear down barriers to inclusion. Our work as a blind foundation is powered by a network of volunteers, donors and partners from coast to coast to coast.
Centre for Diverse Learners
Our mission is to support and empower neurodiverse learners through advocacy, education, and services. We aim to build a world where individuals with neurodiverse learning needs are included, empowered, and celebrated.
Our programs are designed to help students learn on their own terms, in the ways that work for them. In the short term, we teach students and parents how to advocate for their rights in the classroom. In the long term, we want to make sure they don’t have to. Our goal is a world where our organization isn’t needed – where every student automatically gets the help they deserve.
City of Hamilton’s Human Resources Department
City of Hamilton’s Office of Climate Change Initiatives
Climate Action Strategy Office of Climate Change Initiatives, City of Hamilton.
City of Hamilton’s Public Health Department – Dental Services
We provide dental services to those with low income, and no insurance.
https://www.hamilton.ca/people-programs/public-health/dental-health
City of Hamilton’s Seniors Advisory Committee/Age-Friendly Hamilton
City of Hamilton – Tenant Support Program
The City of Hamilton’s Tenant Support Program (TSP) offers free support to low-to moderate-income tenants that are experiencing bad-faith evictions, above-guideline rent increases, and challenges related to maintenance. Supports are delivered in partnership with three community agencies: Hamilton ACORN, the Housing Help Centre of Hamilton & Area, and the Hamilton Community Legal Clinic.
Cycling without Age – Hamilton and Burlington
Cycling without Age Hamilton and Burlington is a program of New Hope Community Bikes, which is a local cycling education charity. Our volunteers give free rides in a 3 wheeled electric assist bike (called a trishaw) throughout Hamilton and Burlington. We work with over 15 different organizations to give rides to residents and clients throughout the summer.
DARTS
DARTS is a non-profit, charitable organization that provides specialized transit service in Hamilton.
Desjardins
Megha Lama – Financial Advisor at Desjardins Financial Security Independent Network
As an experienced financial advisor, I am passionate about helping individuals and families with disabilities secure their futures through the Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP) — a powerful government-assisted savings program designed to build long-term financial security. I look forward to sharing valuable insights on how the RDSP can make a life-changing difference, helping attendees unlock opportunities they may not have realized were available to them.
Disability Justice Network of Ontario
Disability Justice Network of Ontario (DJNO) was founded in 2018 by racialized disabled people in our community to build a just and accessible Ontario, wherein disabled people can create a world where we are free to be. This world is one where we:
- Have personal and political agency;
- Can thrive and foster community; and,
- Build the power, capacity, and skills needed to hold people, communities, and institutions responsible for the spaces they create.
Our work is wide and varied, specifically aiming to uphold the principles of Disability Justice in all areas that reach into the lives of disabled peoples. These principles center the most impacted and challenge the economic and social system lives in all our work. Our work ranges from education to prisoner justice to housing and home care. Our work takes us from the local to the international—in all these areas, we fight for collective access and solidarity across our lived experiences and intersecting disabilities.
Everyone Rides
We remove the barriers that prevent people from accessing bikes for transportation and fun!
Green Venture
Green Venture is an environmental non-profit organization dedicated to helping Hamilton residents bring sustainability and stewardship into their everyday lives. We do this through school visits, free on-site child and youth programming, public workshops and events, ongoing environmental campaigns and projects, and more. We are implementing all-terrain wheelchairs into our programming to better include people of all abilities. We are eager to network with other organizations, and meet new people.
Hamilton Public Library (HPL)
Hauser’s Healthcare
HSR Transit
Hamilton Street Railway (HSR) is the provider of conventional and specialized transit services at the City of Hamilton. Operating out of the Mountain Transit Centre (MTC), HSR employs approximately 800 employees and boasts a fleet of 270 buses. HSR proudly services approximately 243 square kilometers along 35 different routes to serve a community of more than half a million residents.
Karis Disability Services
Since 1965, Karis Disability Services (formerly Christian Horizons) has worked together with people with intellectual and developmental
disabilities and their families to recognize each person’s unique gifts and nurture communities where everybody belongs.
More than 2,000 people use Karis Disability Services across Ontario and Saskatchewan, where they enjoy our unique commitment to supporting
them in body, mind, soul and spirit. Inspired by our faith, Karis Disability Services welcomes and comes alongside people with the personalized
support they need to belong and live their best lives. Our global work has impacted over 300,000 people across 60 communities. For more
information, visit Karis.org
K9 Lifelines
K9 Lifelines is a Guelph, Ontario-based organization specializing in psychiatric, mobility, medical alert, autism, and multipurpose service dogs. We offer two pathways to help individuals with disabilities access highly trained service dogs.
We focus on custom training to address the unique needs and lifestyles of each handler. At K9 Lifelines, we understand the profound impact a service dog can have on fostering independence, companionship, and overall well-being. Each service dog is trained to meet the specific requirements of their handler, and we offer ongoing support to our graduate teams.
Our Owner Assistive Program supports individuals in training their own service dog, providing guidance on everything from selecting a suitable puppy to advanced obedience, public access skills, and disability-specific task training.
Our Puppy to Lifeline Program provides fully trained, custom service dogs matched to the needs of their future handlers.
We have a variety of qualified teams across both programs. On average, it takes 1.5 to 2 years of training for a dog to be ready to take the public access test and graduate as a service dog. We also offer continued support to all teams after graduation to help ensure long-term success and confidence.
L’arche Hamilton
L’Arche Hamilton is a community where people with and without intellectual disabilities share life together.
Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides
Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides empowers Canadians living with disabilities to navigate their world with confidence and independence, by providing a Dog Guide at no cost and supporting them in their journey together. Located in Oakville, Ontario with a breeding and training facility in Breslau (between Kitchener and Guelph), we are the only school to train Dog Guides in seven distinct programs. From breeding to rearing and training with a life-time of follow-up services, each Dog Guide is $35,000 to train and place.
LUCI
LUCI is an accessory to a power wheelchair. It mounts directly onto the powerchair base and integrates directly with the wheelchair’s electronics. LUCI provides advanced driver assistance through sensors that conduct a 360º scan of the chair’s environment 10 times per second. The sensors can identify stationary and moving obstacles, such as furniture, walls, and people, as well as, unsafe drop-offs, such as stairs, curbs or the edge of a ramp. The LUCI software will intervene to slow and then, when needed, stop the chair to prevent collisions and tip-overs with said obstacles and drop-offs.
LUCI’s software relies on three types of sensors, radar, ultrasonics, and camera-vision with infrared, to triple-check the chair’s surroundings. If the chair is headed towards an obstacle or unsafe dropoff, LUCI’s software is customized to the driver and will intervene by scaling back the driver’s input to the joystick to slow the chair down allowing the user time to navigate away. This ‘driver assist’ functionality, of slowing the chair before a collision or, for example, driving off a curb into traffic, gives the driver sensory cues (the slowing of the chair and a light on LUCI’s user interface), that call the driver’s attention to their immediate surroundings. If the driver is unable to redirect their driving path because of LUCI will completely stop the chair to prevent a collision or tip-over and prevent possible injury and wheelchair damage.
Luso Canadian Charitable Centres
Luso is a charitable organization that provides a safe, supportive and caring environment for individuals & families living with physical and/or developmental disabilities.
March of Dimes Canada
March of Dimes Canada (MODC) is one of the largest non-profit, community service organizations in Canada and offers a wide range of support and services to empower people with disabilities to live in their communities with independence, choice and control.
MODC was founded in 1951 and now provides services across every province and territory in Canada.
March of Dimes Canada Employment Services
Our Vision
To create a society inclusive of people with disabilities.
Our Mission
To maximize the independence, personal empowerment and community participation of people with disabilities.
Our Values
To promote greater opportunity, self-sufficiency, dignity and quality of life.
MODC Employment Services exists to enable people with disabilities to reach their employment goals.
We provide the highest quality service delivery in our sector because of the depth of our understanding, our extensive scope and reach and our advanced infrastructure and resources.
As a large organization for people with disabilities, we work closely with disability stakeholders and are a choice employment service provider for employers seeking to access this unique labour pool.
McMaster University, Student Accessibility Services
We provide compassionate, individualized accessibility services for students with disabilities. This includes academic accommodations, programming and additional support services.
Our goal is to help students with disabilities meet their goals through full participation, independence, empowerment and equality.
Motion
Motion is Canada’s leading provider of comprehensive and customized mobility and home accessibility solutions for a wide variety of clients from children to seniors. Serving clients since 1985, it is Motion’s mission to make life accessible for everyone with solutions that are delivered professionally, consistently and with integrity.
NeuroInclusivity
We’re an AuDHD-owned local business creating low-tech AAC decks to help people communicate their needs and feelings with others. Our decks are designed for those who are non-speaking, autistic, living with selective mutism, navigating emotional regulation challenges, experiencing aphasia, and more—supporting connection, understanding, and self-expression.
In addition to decks, we offer other non-verbal communication tools and medical alerts, including pins, buttons, stickers, single medical ID badges, and more. We’ve proudly been serving our local community for nearly four years.
PATH Employment Services
Who We Are
PATH Employment Services is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering individuals with disabilities to achieve meaningful employment. Since 1972, we have championed the belief that disability does not define ability. Our mission is to recognize and promote the unique skills, talents, and qualifications of every individual we serve. Through personalized support and strong partnerships with employers, we help job seekers overcome barriers and build sustainable careers. At PATH, we are committed to creating inclusive workplaces and fostering a community where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
Service Canada and Canada Revenue Agency
Service Canada promotes programs and services available to residents of Canada.
The Canada Revenue Agency promotes benefits and credits available to residents who file their income tax.
SEOL CARE
Provide conversation, planning and education about
● A disability informed approach to End of life support.
● A disability informed approach to grief support
For the disability community.
Tetra Society of North America – Hamilton Chapter
Tetra builds innovative solutions for people with physical disabilities to overcome environmental barriers, providing greater independence, quality of life, and inclusion.
The Career Foundation
The Career Foundation’s Empowering Abilities Program is a Federally funded program supporting job seekers with disabilities in gaining and maintaining meaningful employment.
The Opportunities Program – YWCA Hamilton
This program assists persons with self-disclosed disabilities to prepare for, obtain, and maintain employment. It focuses on the needs of each person and seeks to develop skills to improve their employability through one-on-one and group coaching at YWCA Hamilton and work placement through workplace experience.