Presentations

The employment gap between young people with disability and those without disability is widening in Australia.

The Brotherhood of St Laurence has been trialling a systemic change approach to explore and improve school-to-work transition for young people with disabilities, working with a diverse group of experts including Transition to Work providers

Our presentation will:

• exploring the learning from 10 years of the Ticket to Work model, a place-based collaborative approach to improving outcomes for students with disability as they transition from school,
• examining systemic and structural barriers to work for young people with disability and leverage points for intervention.
• exploring whether and how the structure and design of employment programs and disability services administered by DEWR, DSS, and the NDIA (and broader) may be limiting opportunities for young people with disability to work.
• examining how federal government policies intended to improve the employment prospects of young people with disability relate to activity with the same aim in other jurisdictions and outside government in Australia,
• analysing how the legislative and policy landscape shapes relationships between young people with disability, employers, employment services providers, and the community,
• identifying opportunities to align policy, practice, and resources across service systems to address barriers to work for young people with disability more effectively and efficiently than existing arrangements and improve their prospects of finding and keeping work, and
• learnings from our current pilot, Inclusive Pathway to Employment (IPE), which is finding what works best to make mainstream youth employment services (Transition to Work) accessible and inclusive for young people with disability.