Welcome to the EDI Resource Library!

This resource library was created by the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Project Team at Northern Lights College. These resources were primarily curated to help support participants of the 50 – 30 Challenge, and we welcome anyone interested in learning about EDI to explore and share this resource library.  

How to use the resource library:  

  • The resource library contains labelled drop-down tabs on different topics about Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Workplace.  
  • To find resources, simply choose a topic and click on that drop-down tab. Once the topic is clicked you will find resources on the chosen topic.  
  • Each resource will have a small description to provide ease when searching through the library. 
  • Resources may be in the form of PDFs, websites, videos, or articles.  
  • You may find the same resources in multiple tabs, as many of the subjects are interconnected and fall under multiple EDI-based topics.  
  • We welcome you to save website links, download documents, and share the resource library as a whole.
  • We hope this resource library can help you in your Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion journey!  

Northern Lights College and the 50 – 30 Challenge are not affiliated with the resources provided in this library outside of those branded by the 50 – 30 Challenge. These resources are being provided as a convenience in the event you wish to further explore them.

 

  • Unconscious Bias Toolkit (Quick & Written Resource) — This toolkit defines unconscious bias and provides different types of resources from short videos, and online articles, to academic research.
  • What is Unconscious Bias Training? (Quick & Written Resource) — This article by CultureAlly helps readers gain an understanding of unconscious bias, including common types of bias, how to address bias in the workplace, resources for unconscious bias training, etcetera.
  • Responding to Microaggressions and Bias (Quick & Written Resource)— This guide shares ways to approach responding to microaggressions and biases. This is a great resource for leadership, colleagues, and bystanders to read through and would be a great exercise to practice how to approach resistance to EDI in the workplace.
  • Harvard Implicit Association Test (Long & Written Resource) — This resource has you complete a free survey, and at the end gives you “results” of your biases. This is a great resource to start thinking about biases that you may hold. Please note that this test has received some criticism. It is not recommended to be used as a tool for measuring bias, rather as a starting point to think about existing personal biases.

EDI Mentorship in General  

Mentoring People of Colour/ Racialized Individuals 

Mentoring Persons with Disabilities 

  • Mentorship Best Practices (Quick & Written Resource) — This guide provides practical tips and guidance on inclusive workplace best practices and disability etiquette throughout the employment lifecycle, from the application process through to the job offer stage.

Mentoring People Within the 2SLGBTQIA+ Community 

Inclusive Recruitment  

Indigenous Recruitment 

Here are a few different online websites that promote jobs specifically for Indigenous Peoples. The websites do require paid advertising, however could be a great option for organizations and businesses having the means to do so.   

The Importance of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Workplace 

  • What is EDI? (Long & Written Resource) — This resource highlights elemental components of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), including the need for EDI, demographic shifts, types of microaggressions, etcetera. There are short videos and interactive activities in this resource as well.
  • 5 Powerful Ways to Take REAL Action on DEI (Quick & Written Resource) — This article breaks down taking steps toward meaningful action in equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) by using the REAL framework (Revealing relevant opportunities, Elevating equity, Activating diversity, Leading inclusivity).
  • Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion learning and resources (Quick & Written Resource) — This Government of British Columbia website provides a learning centre which includes several courses exploring content related to reconciliation, equity, diversity, and inclusion. The webpage also includes a resource centre with helpful resources on equity, diversity, inclusion, and Indigenous reconciliation in the workplace.
  • What is diversity, equity, and inclusion? (Quick & Written Resource) — This article explores what equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) is and its importance. The article also highlights key benefits EDI can have on organizations and businesses.
  • Employment Equity Toolkit (Long & Written Resource) — British Columbia’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner has created a toolkit for employers. The toolkit begins with introductory materials covering core concepts and summarizing some of what is known and unknown about employment equity in British Columbia. The toolkit also covers five (5) topic areas within employment equity: accommodations, compensation, data collection, complaint resolution and hiring and promotion. Each topic is covered in a main info sheet containing recommendations for employers.
  • What is Privilege (Quick Video) — This video highlights the experiences of privilege using an interactive activity. The activity shows the intersectional experiences of privilege and lets participants reflect on their own experiences with privilege.
  • How to improve workplace equity: Evidence based actions for employers (Long & Written Resource) — This guide summarizes actions shown to improve workplace outcomes for members of equity-deserving groups and includes “actions” and “outcomes” to improve workplace diversity in areas of the talent management process.
  • 7 Exceptional Examples of Equity in the Workplace (Quick & Written Resource) — This article describes equity in the workplace, how to implement equity in the workplace, how to measure equity in the workplace, and provides seven (7) examples of equity in the workplace.
  • The Dream Gap Project (Quick Video) — This short video explores the “Dream Gap”. Starting at age five (5), many girls begin to develop limiting self-beliefs. They stop believing their gender can do or be anything. This is the Dream Gap, which Mattel is working to close. This is a great video to bring awareness and help close the gap between girls and their full potential.

EDI in the Workplace Statistics 

Inclusive Calendars for 2023/2024 

Days of Significance  

Importance of taking an Inclusive Approach to Holidays, Celebrations, and Cultural Observations 

  • Indigenous Canada Course (Long Resource) — The University of Alberta hosts a free online course called Indigenous Canada, a twelve (12) lesson Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from the Faculty of Native Studies that explores the different histories and contemporary perspectives of Indigenous peoples living in Canada. From an Indigenous perspective, this course explores complex experiences Indigenous peoples face today from a historical and critical perspective highlighting national and local Indigenous-settler relations.
  • Building Inclusion for Indigenous Peoples in Canadian Workplaces (Long & Written Resource)— This report is helpful in understanding the Indigenous experience at work, highlighting emotional tax as well as psychological safety.
  • Healing a Nation Through Truth and Reconciliation | Chief Dr Robert Joseph (Quick Video) — This helpful video provides insight into the importance of Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. Although this resource is not specific to Truth and Reconciliation in the workplace, it offers a good starting point to learn and reflect on. 
  • Recognizing Truth and Reconciliation at Work (Quick & Written Resource) — This article by CultureAlly shares helpful information on the history of Truth and Reconciliation, how to support indigenous employees, tips for recognizing Truth and Reconciliation at work, etcetera.
  • Indigenous Recruitment
    • see more under “EDI Recruitment”

  • Hire Immigrants Ottawa (Quick & Written Resource) — This website provides several resources on practical tips for hiring immigrants, including resources for employers such as guides, recruitment services, credential evaluation, language assessments, cross-cultural competency, facts and stats, tips sheets, etcetera.
  • A portrait of non-permanent residence in Canada (Quick & Written Resource)—This website provides insight into the demographics of non-permanent residents in Canada, including top ten (10) places of birth, overqualification of occupations, the state of housing, ages of non-permanent residence, etcetera.
  • Over-education among immigrants in Canada (Quick & Written Resource) This website provides insight into the demographics of immigrants in Canada, defines over-education, and speaks to how many individuals are over-educated for the jobs they are in.
  • Canada bets big on immigrants, but newcomers’ skills and education are being wasted (Quick & Written Resource)— This article provides statistics and data on the overqualified, skilled newcomers to Canada, and how they are not being utilized in the workforce. The article emphasizes the importance of economic mobility and the professional integration of immigrants into the Canadian labor force.
  • Employer Tools & Resources Library (Long & Written Resource)This website provides resources and tools to help attract, hire, and retain skilled immigrant employees, including a resource library with podcasts, reports, resources, success stories, tips, tools, videos, and webinars.
  • Hiring Newcomers Guides and Toolkits (A Series of Long & Written Resources) — Here are several PDFs from Hire Immigrants Ottawa. These resources explore inclusive onboarding of newcomers, strategies for immigrant inclusion, etcetera.
    • Inclusive Onboarding for Newcomer Employees — This resource provides advice on the preparation of onboarding newcomers into an organization, the role of managers and supervisors, facilitating connections, and providing onboarding support. This resource also includes an onboarding checklist that can be used as a guide.   
    • Employer Playbook: Strategies for Immigrant Inclusion in Canadian Workplaces — This playbook provides easy-to-implement strategies that support efforts to recruit the best candidates, add diverse perspectives to support your organization, and foster an inclusive workplace where existing immigrant employees can contribute their full skills and experience.   
    • Onboarding Refugees: A Toolkit for Employers — This toolkit provides a business case for hiring refugees, preparing the workplace, effective onboarding, supporting refugees in the workplace, and providing accommodations and language support. There are also practical “how to” areas of this toolkit on culturally sensitive interviews, establishing effective mutual expectations, etcetera.   
    • Employers Guide to Integrating Immigrants into the Workplace  — This resource provides context into why hiring immigrants is necessary in our current social, political, and economic contexts. The resource also discusses the assessment of an applicant’s language skills and how an employer can offer support to improve skills on the job. This guide also emphasizes the need for cultural integration for an immigrant to succeed in the workplace. The resource ends with several practical tips and guidance for the integration of immigrants in the workplace.  
    • Employers in Action: From Recruitment to Retention — This resource identifies barriers that immigrants face in the workplace. It provides guidance for employers to take action in the talent management process, including preparing the workplace, finding immigrant candidates, assessing applications, interviewing, orientation, and retention/talent management as well as the employer benefit and further resources to each of the previously articulated areas.  

  • CultureAlly (Paid Training/ Consulting Resource) — CultureAlly is a Canadian diversity, equity, and inclusion company that provides training, consulting, and e-learning services. They have a number of pre-set training topics as well as offer customizable training services.
  • CCDI Consulting Inc (Paid Training/Consulting Resource) — Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI) Consulting is a full-service inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA) consulting firm with a mission to support employers in their move toward true inclusion. They offer a variety of instructor-led training topics on equity, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace.
  • Canadian Equality Consulting (Paid Training/Consulting Resource) — Canadian Equality Consulting (CEC) is a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) consulting firm that helps organizations with DEI training, assessments, strategy implementation, and more. The CEC also offers “Equity360”, a subscription service where organizations can receive year-long learning, support, and capacity-building.
  • QMUNITY: 2SLGBTQIA+ Inclusivity Training & Education (Paid Training/ Consulting Resource) — QMUNITY’s education program delivers nonjudgmental experiential training and workshops for individuals, service providers, and organizations that want help making their organizations more inclusive for all members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
  • ElseEase Advocacy (Paid Training/ Consulting Resource) — ElseEase Advocacy is dedicated to advancing the awareness of accessibility and accommodation for invisible and episodic disabilities, including mental illness and protected grounds, regardless of an individual identifying as a person with a disability. ElseEase Advocacy offers customized consulting packages and audits, addressing the nuances of inclusion for episodic and invisible disability, customized resources scan and networking, and more.