促进改善残疾人生活的领导能力和创新是残疾人与社区研究计划的主要目标。它是为来自多个学科和专业的专业人员设计的，这些专业人员至少具有三年的累积工作/生活/志愿者经验
Fostering leadership and innovation that improves the lives of people with disabilities is a key aim of the Disability and Community Studies program. It is designed for professionals from several disciplines and professions who have a minimum of three years of accumulated work/life/volunteer experience with disability, chronic illness, and other marginalized conditions. The course-based program aims to advance knowledge, policy, practice and partnerships in Community Rehabilitation. The program is part of Community Health Sciences, which focuses on the intersection between population, public health, research, and education to promote the study of health and disease.Policy analyst, researcher, academic, rehabilitation, case or respite worker, disability, behavioural or statistical consultant, recreation therapist, family outreach &amp, advocacy, learning resource teacher, clinical trials biostatistician, epidemiologist, data/survey analyst, statistical programmer, psychometrician, knowledge broker, knowledge translation, prevention, development or health promotion specialist, scientific or program director.