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About Infinity
Infinity - The Network for Neurodivergent Public Servants is an interdepartmental network for neurodivergent employees within Canada’s federal public sector. It currently has over 2,000 members across 88 institutions and is the largest government-wide neurodiversity network in the G7.
Infinity organizes a wide range of activities to connect, support, and empower neurodivergent employees across their careers in the federal public sector, including online communities on GCcollab, GCxchange, and Discord, learning workshops on neurodiversity in the workplace, a neurodiversity resource library, and social and networking events for its members.
What we do
Some of the events and activities the Network has organized include:
- Social and networking events,
- Engagement sessions with members about workplace issues and accommodation tools
- Panel discussions on neurodiversity-related topics
- Participation in government-wide consultations
- Learning workshops on neurodiversity in the workplace
- Briefings to senior management about neurodiversity in the workplace
Collaboration
Infinity also works with a variety of stakeholders to advance inclusive workplaces for neurodivergent employees across Canada and globally.
Infinity collaborates with other employee networks, such as the Federal Youth Network (FYN) and the Public Service Pride Network (PSPN) to advance shared goals and interests toward workplace inclusion. Infinity also engages with unions and bargaining agents to help build capacity for better representation for unionized neurodivergent employees.
Infinity engages with non-profit organizations such as LiveWorkPlay that help with facilitating supported employment opportunities to autistic people and persons with intellectual disabilities in the federal public service.
Infinity maintains working relationships with neurodiversity employee networks in the governments of Australia, New Zealand, and the United States.
Organizational memberships
Infinity participates in the following cross- network tables in the federal government:
- Interdepartmental Network for Disability and Accessibility Chairs (INDAC)
- Employment Equity Chairs and Champions Committee (EECCC)
- Persons with Disabilities Chairs and Champions Committee (PWDCCC)
Outside of the federal government, Infinity is a collaborator organization with the Canadian Accessibility Network (CAN).
