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Understand the current partners and program concept

Engaging members of the community and key stakeholders to participate in a community-wide re-visioning exercise to reflect upon what inclusive employment and social inclusion entail

Building an action platform to empower talents, incubate ideas, leverage resources and form working networks

Conducting a diagnostic study of inclusive employment and social inclusion

Forming an information commons for accessing and sharing information

Provide self-development opportunities to improve the employability

Raise workplace confidence of higher educated persons with disabilities and/or SEN

Persons with disabilities or Special Education Needs (SEN) include those with restriction of or those who lacked the ability to perform an activity in the manner or within the range considered normal for a human being.   The database of the Labour and Welfare Bureau covers ten selected types of disability, including:  (i) restriction in body movement; (ii) seeing difficulty; (iii) hearing difficulty; (iv) speech difficulty; (v) mental illness/mood disorder; (vi) Autism; (vii) Specific Learning Difficulties; (viii) Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD); (ix) intellectual disability; (x) visceral disability / chronic illness.

Facilitate and enhance inclusive employment by providing employment support with special emphasis on strengths-based approach, which aims to uncover and match the strengths of SEN youth with job opportunities

Co-create diversified job opportunities with design thinking model

Facilitate social inclusion by engaging parents and the community

Provide career counselling to post-secondary students with SEN, and to prepare them before they enter the job market

Currently studying or graduated from a mainstream secondary school, diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity disorder or specific learning difficulties and interested in the job natures below: conventional jobs: office assistant, teaching assistant and IT assistant; non-conventional jobs: event supporter, teaching aids creator, multimedia and programming etc.

To enhance the employability of the participants through internship and training

To prepare the participants with widen perspectives for learning and working

To enhance the understanding of youth with

Including high-functioning autism (HFA), attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or specific learning difficulties (SpLD) with normal or above intellectual functioning (IQ score: 70 or above)

Providing platforms and opportunities to them to develop art-related slashie career plan

Project Objective

Service Target

Partners

One-stop Information & Support Platform for Employment of Persons with Disabilities

Hong Kong PHAB Association

SENvice

EConnect Employment Network

Jockey Club Project COMPASS

Hong Kong Association of the Deaf - HKAD

Association for the Rights of Industrial Accident Victims 

The Hong Kong Society for the Blind

Barrier Free Access (HK) Limited - Funding Scheme for Students and Candidates with Visual Impairment

South Kwai Chung Social Service 

Po Leung Kuk - Integrated Children Development Service - Speech Therapy Service 

The Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation - The Vocational Rehabilitation and Retraining Centre

Direction Association for the Handicapped 

Autistic Child Life Building Development Consultancy Limited

Shall We Talk

Richmond Fellowship of Hong Kong - Vocational Assessment and Intervention Enhancement Project

Haven of Hope Christian Service

The Hong Kong Down Syndrome Association 

TWGHs Jockey Club Academy for Community Rehabilitation 

The Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation 

Let’s Talk ADHD

Hong Kong Association for AD/HD

Baptist Oi Kwan Social Service - Employment Supporting Service for ADHD

Pathways

The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups 

Resources

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The importance of unity of knowledge and action has been raised long ago by Confucius in The Analects. As explained by the Ming dynasty thinker Wang Yangming, “becoming aware plants the seed of action, taking action is the fruit of knowledge”.  

The Jockey Club Collaborative Project for Inclusive Employment aspires to not only raise stakeholders’ awareness and knowledge on inclusive employment, but also inspire them to take action and become advocates for inclusive employment, contributing to social inclusion.   The project aims to facilitate the five partners (CareER, Heep Hong Society, SAHK, St. James Settlement, and The University of Hong Kong) with a diverse range of expertise to break away from the traditional ways of working, create opportunities to experiment with different forms of collaboration and foster the sharing of information, networks, creativity, knowledge and skills, and other resources.   We trust that such collaboration can improve the quality and effectiveness of services, which will ultimately lead to the raising of societal awareness and furthering the cause of inclusive employment, achieving unity of knowledge and action.

‘Diversity Works’: Internship Portal for Youth with Special Educational Needs(SEN)

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‘Diversity Works’: Internship Portal for Youth with Special Educational Needs(SEN)

Programme/ Service Highlights

Service Target