This workshop is one of four afternoon options for the 2026 COCHF Spring Education Event. Please see the event package (PDF) for more details, including the full-day agenda.
Crowne Plaza Kitchener
105 King St E
Kitchener, ON N2G 2K8 (map)
Member Cost: $105 for the day. Additional attendees from the same organization are $85 each.
Non-Members: $150 for the day.
Registration Deadline: April 12, 2026
Workshop Details
The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act has been an important part of the co-op legal landscape since 2005. Ontario organizations like co-ops are required to follow the Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation that set standards related to customer service, information and communications, employment, transportation, and design of public spaces. This affects how co-ops interact with the public, their members, and their staff. Join former sector lawyer, Celia Chandler, as she explains a co-op’s responsibilities under AODA, and provides the training directors of co-ops will need to comply with the legislation. She will issue completion certificates for all those who attend the full session.
Celia Chandler
Celia Chandler began her career at the City of Toronto and then in an environmental organization, but has worked for two decades now in the affordable housing sector, first as a lawyer in a small Toronto law firm and now as the Deputy Executive Director of the Co-operative Housing Federation of Toronto. When she’s not doing her part for the housing crisis, she’s sitting in her Toronto laneway suite blogging and working on a book.
