Community Connections Program
Young people with a disability often wish to achieve more independent living skills or employment goals. The Ella Centre’s Connections program is designed to identify participants’ individual talents and realistic employment goals and help to achieve them by:
- increasing their self-esteem and confidence
- creating individual plans with details on how to reach their goals
- analysing and improving everyday skills and abilities that can be used in their chosen career
- learning how to adapt to industrial work skills as required
- identifying further vocational education and training needs
More specifically, each participant will gain a basic understanding of:
- independent living skills
- literacy, numeracy and money skills
- workplace communication
- telephone skills
- team work
- travel skills
- computer skills
The program operates Monday to Thursday, from 9am to 3pm.
Funding
The program is funded by the Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care.