National AccessAbility Week May 31 – June 6, 2026

Join CSPDM in celebrating National AccessAbility Week from May 31 to June 6! This year’s theme is “Building a Strong, Accessible Canada”. Let’s continue to work together to build a country where everyone has an equal opportunity to reach their full potential.

Certified Disability Management and Return-to-Work professionals such as yourself, play a vital and transformative role in supporting workers with injuries or disabilities as they reintegrate into the workplace. Your expertise ensures that recovery, accommodation, and meaningful employment remain central priorities—not afterthoughts. By coordinating early intervention, individualized planning, and collaborative communication among workers, employers, healthcare providers, and unions, you help create pathways that restore both productivity and dignity.

Equally important, you work to identify, reduce, and remove the physical, organizational, and attitudinal barriers that can prevent a successful return to work. Through evidence‑based practices, proactive problem‑solving, and a commitment to inclusion, Disability Management and Return‑to‑Work professionals like you help build workplaces where every person has the opportunity to contribute, thrive, and remain connected to their livelihood.

Your work strengthens not only individual outcomes but also organizational culture, workforce sustainability, and the broader social commitment to equity and accessibility. From all of us as CSPDM and NIDMAR, thank you.


https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/campaigns/national-accessability-week.html

Recognizing Excellence – Launch of CDMP-E

May 25, 2026 marked the official launch of the Certified Disability Management Professional–Executive membership, the CDMP-E designation by the International Disability Management Standards Council. This official unveiling in Vancouver culminated more than 2 years of development effort by the IDMSC, which not only administers, but provides quality assurance standards and future strategic directions for the CDMP holders across more than 22 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America.

The CDMP-E development and recognition process was designed for CDMP holders who are distinguished leaders who oversee programs, guide organizational strategy, and influence outcomes at the executive level.

The following comments provided by Prof. Dr. Lorne Sulsky, PhD, Director, Certification Programs, NIDMAR. “The CDMP-E is a prestigious designation that recognizes executive-level leadership in the field of Disability Management. This designation is designed for individuals who have already achieved the Certified Disability Management Professional (CDMP) credential and have demonstrated significant experience in senior leadership or supervisory roles within Disability Management or Return to Work programs. In sum, the CDMP-E exam was designed to meet the highest levels of psychometric integrity. With the approaches undertaken for exam question development, scoring rubric generation, and assessor training, we are confident that both test reliability and validity will be maximized.

Sari Sairanen, NIDMAR Co-Chair, presented Certificates for the CDMP-E certification on May 25, 2026 to those individuals who successfully passed the rigorous examination process.

Left to Right – Leslie Allan-Reed, Rebecca Chow, Lani deHek, Shanna Ramm, and Bill Dyer

Unable to attend in person: Lorraine Evans, Dianna St. Pierre, and Denyse McFadden

CDMP-E Brochure

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Ongoing Multi‑Year Membership Fee Adjustment

May 6, 2026

We want to remind our members about a planned multi‑year, incremental adjustment to our annual membership fees. As outlined in correspondence sent on March 11, 2025, beginning with the 2025 renewal cycle, the first increase was 10%, bringing the annual renewal fee to $275 for 2025.

A copy of that original email can be found here.

That update—effective September 30, 2025—marked our first fee change in 22 years. Implementing gradual increases over the coming years will help ensure we can continue delivering high‑quality services, resources, and support, while keeping pace with rising operational costs and ongoing industry advancements. This year marks the second fee increase, bringing the 2026 annual membership fees to $300. A reminder will be sent ahead of the 2027 renewal fee increase.

We will continue to communicate openly and provide updates on future adjustments as they are confirmed. Your support and engagement are vital to our community, and we appreciate your understanding as these changes take effect.

For any questions or further details, please reach out to us.

Thank you for your continued membership.

Celebrating Excellence in Belgium: 2026 Certification Award Ceremony and New Graduates

CSPDM is pleased to share that Belgium had it’s official Disability Management (DM) certificate awarding ceremony on May 4, 2026.

Out of 86 participants who completed the examination, 57 successfully achieved certification. This includes:
• 32 individuals who earned the CRTWC designation
• 25 individuals who were awarded the CDMP designation

With these new graduates, Belgium now has a total of 175 certified professionals.

Congratulations to all who achieved this milestone!

IFDM 2026 – April Updates

We are delighted with the response received to our recent Call for Abstracts. With over 50 submissions received from professionals across the globe, ifdm2026 is gaining momentum and will be offering delegates a curated program aligned to the four pillars of the conference Empowering Ideas, Shaping Futures.

You still have time to join us and Dr Nancy Doyle, Dr Shriti Pattani OBE, Dr Tyler Amell, Cameron Stockdale, Elisabeth Kasilingam and many more specialists and leaders
from across the world. Register now for Early Bird prices before May 7th and benefit from 20% discount: https://ifdm2026.com/conference/register

April Abstracts and EB