Presentations
Getting ready for the sub 8 hour benchmark participants – how do we effectively work with these clients?
Catherine and Luke will discuss strategies for working with participants who currently have sub 8-hour benchmarks and rarely commenced in DES. Many of these participants have an Intellectual Disability. Catherine and Luke will share their personal experience and emphasise the need for resources to train DES staff about the needs of people with an intellectual disability specifically, and what works for this cohort in getting and keeping a job. They believe an essential role for a new DES system and DES providers will be collecting what is already known and sharing best practice across the community, to people with disability, families, employment services, and employers.