At ADDE our mission is to increase employment opportunities for people with disabilities and from diverse backgrounds in Australia.
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- 組織 - 倡導機構
- 簡介：
- Australians for Disability and Diversity Employment (ADDE) officially formed on September 7, 2005 at Victorian Council of Social Services (VCOSS). ADDE promotes pro-active employment policies and practices for disadvantaged groups including people with disabilities, mature age workers, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds as well as indigenous people. People who fall into more than one of these categories are recognised as being even more disadvantaged. Therefore, we... (read more)
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- Michael (召集人)
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基本資料
- 名稱：
- Australians for Disability and Diversity Employment (ADDE) please join
- 類別：
- 組織 - 倡導機構
- 簡介：
- Australians for Disability and Diversity Employment (ADDE) officially formed on September 7, 2005 at Victorian Council of Social Services (VCOSS). ADDE promotes pro-active employment policies and practices for disadvantaged groups including people with disabilities, mature age workers, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds as well as indigenous people. People who fall into more than one of these categories are recognised as being even more disadvantaged. Therefore, we... (read more)
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- 開放性社團：所有內容對外公開。
聯絡資訊
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- 網址：
- http://www.adde.org.au
- 辦公室：
- Australians for Disability and Diversity Employment (ADDE)
- 地點：
- Northcote, Australia, 3070
最新消息
- 新聞：
- ADDE research report newsletter article:
Category: Publications and Research
Title: Australians for Disability and Diversity Employment (ADDE) research report, Leading from the Front?
Contributor: Michael Merrett
Source: Australians for Disability and Diversity Employment (ADDE)
Are disability organisations leading from the front when it comes to the employment of people with disabilities?
A research report investigating employment practices of the Victorian disability sector commissioned by Australians for Disability and Diversity Employment was recently launched at the Victorian Equal Opportunities and Human Rights Commission, Level 3, 380 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne.
The report highlights the importance of employing people with disabilities within the very organisations funded to provide them support. The report finds that having people with disabilities in high profile and visible positions contributes to the development of innovative disability employment strategies and practices within disability service providers.
Peter Rickards, ADDE coordinator, said, “This report finds that while some organisations have some good practices to enable people with disabilities to work in organisations providing services to people with disabilities, there is a long way to go before these organisations can say they are leading from the front.”
Suzanne Colbert, CEO of the Australian Employers’ Disability Network, said, “We commend the research launched today and encourage organisations that provide services to people with disability to lead the way in employing people with disability. Our members, across many industry sectors, have demonstrated that by working together and developing frameworks and pathways, rapid progress can be made.”
Cath Smith, CEO of the Victorian Council of Social Service (VCOSS), said, “This survey helps highlight the benefits to organisations of developing inclusive employment practices. The talents and skills of people with disabilities are frequently under-utilised in all sectors including the non-government sector.
With major skill shortages in all areas, this project helps raise awareness to respond to the challenge of workforce participation.”
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From the report, here are the Key Future Directions
A number of future directions arise out of the eight key findings from this research:
A disability employment network: In order to develop a sector wide response, a forum for strategy development, sharing, learning and resourcing on disability employment is urgently required.
A toolkit for the sector: The sector needs practical assistance in the development of policy, implementation guidelines, recruitment options, reporting, measurement and data collection tools.
Funding: Additional funding to support people with disabilities in the workplace is critical to increase employment of people with disabilities
in the sector.
Awareness Raising: An awareness raising campaign that targets leadership in disability employment practice and the value of the business case for employing people with disabilities is required.
Innovative practice on work readiness: Innovative practice which stimulates and furthers work readiness, such as graduate programs, traineeships and mentoring support, need to be encouraged and supported across the sector.
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Website: http://www.adde.org.au
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Link to the Infoxchange article:
http://www.disabilitynews.infoxchange.net.au/news/detail.chtml?filename_num=228648