• Welcome to Autism Forums, a friendly forum to discuss Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, High Functioning Autism and related conditions.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:
    • Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
    • Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
    • Private Member only forums for more serious discussions that you may wish to not have guests or search engines access to.
    • Your very own blog. Write about anything you like on your own individual blog.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon! Please also check us out @ https://www.twitter.com/aspiescentral

Dragon’s Den project helps people with Autism find work

AGXStarseed

Well-Known Member
(Not written by me)


A new website, designed and developed free by Allstate NI as part of a Dragon’s Den style Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative, will make a massive difference to a fledgling social enterprise that is changing the way businesses think about people on the Autistic Spectrum.


Specialisterne NI, formed in 2014, is a specialist recruitment agency which also provides expert training to companies to help them understand social difference. The new website will make a huge difference in their ability to communicate with companies and job seekers.

In 2014 Allstate NI ran a Dragon’s Den CSR programme where teams were invited to pitch ideas that would meet a social good, while making use of their talent. The Allstate NI website team, headed up by Paddy Warnock, decided they would like to develop a website for a social enterprise that may otherwise not be able to do so. The team were successful in their pitch and were awarded £2,000 by the Dragons.

Specialisterne NI is a social enterprise that works to enable £16k+ job opportunities for people on the Autistic Spectrum.

It does so by creating awareness of the skills people on the Autistic Spectrum can bring to a company and by supporting job seekers to secure jobs and coaching within job roles.

http://www.specialisterneni.com.


SOURCE: http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/ni...-helps-people-with-autism-find-work-1-7127138
 

New Threads

Top Bottom