A Border-based service is already eager to expand on a new program providing employment training for people with a disability. / (min cost $ 0 ) or signup to continue reading , was launched in March on the top floor of Lavington's Northpoint Tower, which has been converted into a working office space, and has welcomed its first intake of trainees. The program operates three days a week and supports six people per day to learn new skills as a pathway into employment.
Training academy manager Natarsha Lewis, said the program, run in conjunction with Jigsaw Australia, would see trainees pick up 20 soft skills within a work environment, including communication, teamwork, problem solving, time management and critical thinking. Initial tasks have included scanning and making digital copies of paper files for Kirinari. Each file is physically pulled apart and pages scanned, before it is cross checked against the original and a digital copy is created.
"We are keen to work with businesses and organisations that may require digitisation of their records," Mrs Lewis said. "From the work experience perspective, this is the first stage and then there's the view that the team would move through to a stage where they were working independently and based on contracts. They would have the opportunity to work at Rise under an award wage position.
"We're working with six individuals per day, with capacity to take on more and capacity to open additional days of the week because we currently ope.
