Services
LET’S’ 19 Year History
LET’S is proud of our 19-year history of service. In that time, education has been core to the work we do, whether through our accessibility tours, facilitation, speaking engagements, low sensory spaces, and/or workshops.
Accessibility Tours
Accessibility tours are offered to organizations who want to understand how disabled and neurodivergent people move through, navigate, and feel in spaces. We facilitate sessions with staff, volunteers, board members, etc. This offers an opportunity for conversation and questions.
LET’S assists clients in utilizing the accessibility tour to engage in conversations about how different people experience environments, how to engage with a variety of users, and how to create achievable goals (in the short and long term). LET’S has also helped clients get funding for accessibility improvements, provide training in Disability Awareness, and advocate alongside them for positive change.
Chronically Queer (CQ)
CQ is a peer-facilitated support group.
We aim to create a supportive and welcoming environment where participants can be themselves fully and openly without fear of judgment. We provide participants an opportunity to engage in an encouraging and caring environment, share personal stories/feelings, listen as others share their experiences, and learn coping strategies.
Disability is an identity, a source of pride, and a foundation for a community connected through shared histories, geographies, and cultures. Chronically Queer strongly believes in community, supporting, growing, and facilitating. Our organization works with a Disability Justice framework, recognizing that those who are most impacted, best know what they need. CQ’s members know what it is like to experience bias, discrimination, and misperceptions. We work, individually and as a group, to listen and learn from one another. We commit to meeting one another’s access needs.
Discussion topics include: self-care and community care, mental health during the pandemic, grief and loss, coping with isolation, how to deal with ableism, navigating the medical system, and how to effectively advocate for yourself and/or others.
Facilitation
LET’S is an organization entirely run by disabled and neurodivergent folks, most of whom are also 2SLGBTQIA+. LET’S’ mission is to create meaningful dialogues and powerful learning opportunities by utilizing and amplifying lived/living expertise to create transformative educational opportunities.
Our work builds community, supports self-advocacy, and models how accessibility, diversity, equity can become a reality using an intersectional lens and Disability Justice framework.
LET’S hosts and facilitates a range of community engagement sessions, including peer support (Chronically Queer), consultation sessions, panels, Q&As, and workshops. LET’S create spaces for equity-denied people to share their stories, frustrations, insights, and hopes, always prioritizing genuine engagement over tokenism.
LET’S’ skills have been developed in and by community. As an active part of the disability, neurodivergent, and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, we understand the importance of creating a safer space where truth and vulnerability are supported and valued. We facilitate respectful conversation that foster self and organizational reflection. LET’S is able to build community in an intentionally equitable way.
LET’S guides conversations with empathy and flexibility, addressing diverse perspectives. We use conflict resolution strategies, honour silence as part of the exchange, and adapt our approach to meet people where they are.
Accessibility at LET’S is a continuous, intentional, living practice. LET’S moves beyond compliance checklists toward an approach rooted in the understanding that accessibility is essential for cultivating safety, belonging, and respect. From the moment someone enters the space, equity‑denied participants quickly sense whether their experiences and perspectives were considered or shaped the planning. That first impression determines whether they feel genuinely welcomed and valued.
Through every conversation, collaboration, and event, LET’S works to build a culture of collective care and accountability. Our goal is lasting transformation – where equity, accessibility, and community leadership are not exceptions, but the foundation of how change happens.
Facilitation
LET’S has facilitated a variety of events including, but not limited to, our peer support group Chronically Queer, community engagement sessions, community events, conferences, speaking panels, Q&As, and workshops
LET’S’s skills have been developed in and by community. As an active part of the disability, neurodivergent, and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, we understand the importance of creating a safer space where truth and vulnerability are supported and valued. We facilitate respectful conversation that foster self and organizational reflection. We are able to build community in an intentionally equitable way.
Accessibility is key to safety and recognition. Disabled and neurodivergent people can walk into a space and know whether they were considered and/or involved in the planning process. Ensuring a good first impression is vital to making them feel recognized and respected.
LET’S uses conflict resolution methods to address varying opinions. We guide conversations in a way that enables people to feel comfortable asking their questions and sharing their thoughts, even if they don’t know the current terminology or how to ask the question. LET’S’ has curiosity to learn more from, and about, the participants and ask insightful questions that promotes constructive conversations. LET’S is skilled in allowing for silence, letting participants think out their responses in their own time. LET’S is able to adapt to circumstances and understands the importance of not setting up a rigid framework.
Following a facilitated session, LET’S is able to summarize the discussion, including challenges and successes, of the session recommend future actions and next steps, provide follow-up material and resources for participants, and follow up with any attendees who need further information or support.
Low/Reduced Sensory Spaces
LET’S creates low or reduced sensory spaces for formal and informal events, including conferences, festivals, workshops, performances, charitable, corporate, and private gatherings.
LET’S’ spaces are created and facilitated by neurodivergent folks with lived expertise.
LET’S uses a Disability Justice lens and prioritizes accessibility.
Low/reduced sensory spaces provide customized environments for people to decompress and have much needed breaks from overwhelming sensory input (noise, crowds, smells, lighting), strong emotions, and socializing.
People who are not neurodivergent also benefit from access to low/reduced sensory spaces.
Workshops
LET’S has an excellent reputation for delivering in-depth, insightful, informative, and intersectional workshops on a variety of topics. Our workshops are well prepared and planned. We thought we would let our participants share what they liked about our workshops:
“I appreciate the practical and real-life translation of knowledge about a very important topic. I’m walking away with having absorbed a lot of important information.”
“Much more in-depth information than I expected which was a wonderful surprise. Good mix of facts, examples and personal anecdotes. Slides were well-formatted. Stim toys were provided and used by most of the workshop participants throughout. This was a workshop that a couple months ago I wished existed and to my surprise here it is!”
“Even though it was 4 hours, I was interested the whole time. I liked the chance to discuss with those at the table and learn from someone with lived experience. I have ADHD and the presentation taught me a lot about myself.”
“I learned a lot of easy tools and examples to actively work against ableism in my workplace through my own action. I also learned about myself and how I can advocate for my own access needs.”
Thank you SO much for your presentation today! It was empowering, eye-opening, and it offered us all a really unique perspective on accessibility that I can personally say will inform a lot of my work and my interactions going forward. There were a lot of really positive comments from staff today after you signed off, and I heard a lot of “I hadn’t ever considered…” and “I never would have thought about ________.” And of course, since a lot of us who work in libraries are neurodivergent, I think your discussion of imposter syndrome and professionalism really hit home for many, myself included.