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              • A man talks to another man in a clothing store.

                Three-step transition to professional life for young people with learning disabilities

                Stepping Up supports students to develop skills and confidence for a better transition either to higher education or employment. The three stages are a school-based learning course to introduce the concepts of employment, working with a transition coordinator towards paid employment and aftercare-support.
                ENABLE Scotland, Stepping Up, United Kingdom

              • Labour inclusion index and job platform for disability-inclusive companies

                Alianza Éntrale works to connect talented people with disabilities and employers by supporting companies in a number of ways, including digital training tools and certification. By mid-2020 the initiative included 847 companies and 35 NGOs with more than 9,821 people with disabilities in employment.
                Mexican Business Council, Alianza Éntrale, Mexico

              • Fighting unemployment from two sides: with training centres and by influencing legal frameworks

                4J sets up centres as a public-private partnership to provide vocational training for young people with disabilities from rural areas and places them in companies. Due to State Government participation in the programme, Y4J has been able to influence the legal framework towards pro-disability policies.
                Youth4Jobs Foundation, Centre for Persons with Disability Livelihoods (CPDL), India

              • Dialogue in the Dark

                Dialogue in the Dark is an experience in total darkness where visitors to the exhibitions, led by blind guides, experience a series of ordinary situations without eyesight. Between 1988 and 2012 over 7 million people have experienced Dialogue in the Dark worldwide, and over 7,000 blind candidates have found employment through it.
                Dialogue Social Enterprise GmbH, Dialogue in the Dark, Germany

              • Providing a variety of career services for high school students with disabilities

                Georgia's HSHT programme offers high school students (aged 16 to 21) with disabilities comprehensive, community-based exposure to academic and career services such as Mentoring , industry tours , work internships , college fairs , family engagement. In 2015, students had a graduation rate of 88 per cent.
                Georgia Committee for the Employment of Persons with Disabilities, Inc., Georgia’s High School/High Tech (HSHT) programme, United States of America

              • Two-year-transition period for young people with autism

                Avnei Derech Mechina (“Milestones for Life”) offers a setting in which young people with autism can learn important aspects of life including employment, social activity, studies, home/family and leisure time. Most vocation and volunteer experience are temporary, but contribute greatly to future careers.
                Avnei Derech Mechina La'Haim, preparatory college, Israel

              • A woman appearing to have autism smiling while brushing her hair in front of the mirror in the bathroom. A towel hanging on the holder attached to the wall and a purple hair dryer is on the sink.

                Housing and life-skills programme for adults with intellectual disabilities

                In 2008, Mexico’s Fundación Inclúyeme began operating a programme that enables adults with intellectual disabilities to live independently by providing inclusive and serviced housing, support in finding employment, and recreational activities. By 2022 up to 3,000 people have benefited from the programme.
                Incluyeme Foundation, Inclúyeme Adult Life programme, Mexico

              • A comprehensive training and transition model involving hundreds of partnerships

                The Centre for Disability in Development (CDD), a non-profit organization in Bangladesh supported by CBM Australia, is helping a large number of people with disabilities to get employment, work, and vocational training. CDD works in partnership with a network of over 350 organizations both nationally and internationally.
                CDD - Centre for Disability and Development, Bangladesh

              • Large-scale, all-encompassing training and transition programme

                The programme aims to improve the economic and social integration of young people with disabilities in Armenia. To this end, various activities are carried out. These include vocational training through inclusive courses, which have been created in vocational training centres throughout the country.
                Bridge of Hope, Programme “Right to Earn a Living”, Armenia

              • EmployAble: Inclusive vocational training and workplaces for youth with disabilities in Kenya, Rwanda and Ethiopia

                Young people with disabilities who are unemployed receive the necessary skills in mainstream training institutes to become employed or self-employed. More than 20 stakeholders are involved in the core implementing teams. In August 2015, 273 persons were enrolled in institutes or received in company training.
                Light for the World Netherlands, Rwanda