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INCLUSION FOUNDATION
(formerly e.motion21)
STUDENT
INFORMATION
@
info 21.
impact .
org au
What is Impact 21?
The Impact21 Employment program is a unique 24
month work readiness and personal growth
program for adults with Down syndrome and
intellectual disability aged from 22 years of age.
Through Impact21, you will get a great job that is
designed just for you in a national company. You
will have the chance to have more social and civic
inclusion, greater independence, learn lots of new
work skills.
Year 1 is university based learning for personal
and skill development. Year 2 is on-the-job
employment support plus once a week at
university to keep you developing.
Impact21 will help you to become the best and
most professional version of yourself, by helping
you work on your skills, emotions, fitness and
nutrition, energy, and passions.
We believe in learning by doing with real-life work
through hands-on practice at university and real
work experience in real workplaces. Impact21 has
taken its knowledge of intellectual disability and
learning, and found what works to get you ready
for employment.
You will attend university at Torrens University in
Melbourne's CBD where many other young people
from all over the world also study. You'll
experience commuting to the city to be in a
workplace, enjoying coffee and lunch with friends,
and living life as a professional adult!
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Set goals and achieve them
Rainer Stefani, Impact21 Graduate,
completed a successful internship with
Sodexo in 2019 and is now employed.
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Our Partners
These are the employer partners who worked with us from the start, and who
are now the proud employers of the first students to graduate from Impact21.
There will be more employer partners as the program grows.
You may notice these businesses and their logos in your daily life. All of these
businesses have lots of employees doing all kinds of tasks to make their work
run smoothly. This could be you in 2022!
Torrens University Australia and CVGT Australia are our program delivery
partners. Torrens University's Flinders Street Campus is the location where
much of your learning will take place. CVGT work with us by providing job
coaches for work experience and internships as you prepare for work in the
employer partner workplaces, and support on-the-job once you start.
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PAGE | 04 What will I learn ? Every person is different; everyone has different work experience, different skills, different passions and dreams. This means that each Impact21 student will join the program with their own needs in their learning and their own way of setting and working towards professional goals. You will need support in some areas more than others. As professional adults, you will learn to manage: thinking while you work with your hands and bodies problem solving fitness and nutrition, and the link between food and its effect on your energy levels for work your work hours, pay, and leave entitlements being social, polite, and friendly at work following instructions from a boss, and working in a team regulating your emotions independently planning your days/weeks with a calendar, and navigating travel plans
What kinds of tasks ?
Impact21 will work with you to customise job roles and match you with the right
employer and role for you. Below are the kinds of tasks you will try, and which might
make up your role at work:
Hospitality and Facilities tasks: welcome and escorting guests, setting up meeting
rooms, tidying meeting rooms and communal spaces, re-stocking items of stationery,
doing rubbish disposal, taking and delivering catering orders, making/serving tea and
coffee, maintaining the staff kitchen areas and coffee stations, preparing and making
food, setting tables for gatherings and meals, collecting dishes and glasses during/after
a function
Admin tasks: performing clerical work, completing data entry, sorting and delivering mail,
doing print room tasks, shredding confidential materials, scanning and electronic filing,
creating staff/student ID cards, taking photos and inventory of the workplace (for
maintenance or other), making bookings (for travel, rooms, restaurants, accommodation),
stocking stationery
Retail tasks: stocking shelves, price tagging and scanning, completing inventory
processes, greeting customers, bagging items, customer service, preparing stock and
shelves for sales, shop cleaning and tidying, setting up and packing down display stock
Manual tasks: setting up work spaces, moving stock and unpacking/stacking boxes,
completing outdoor maintenance tasks of grounds and facilities, cleaning and tidying
facilities with a range of tools and products
Genevieve Rufus, Impact21 Graduate,
completed a successful internship with
Sodexo in 2019 and is now employed.
PAGE | 05What does the journey look like in 2021-2022?
Now Interest and Application: you let us know you're interested and apply for Impact21
by filling out some forms with your parent/support person, and send a video about
yourself.
February Discovery: if your application is successful, your Learning Facilitator (teacher) and
the Impact21 team will visit you to get to know you, your skills and talents, your
dreams and goals. We will set goals together, look at any barriers you might have,
and set a plan for your learning and growth.
March 21 Launch: you will attend the Launch of the 2021 program with the Impact21 team,
your new student peers, families, government ministers, employer partners, and
other special guests.
March Face-to-Face learning at University: you will start attending university in the city
onwards for three days a week (9:30am - 4:00pm), growing as a learning/working adult in a
professional setting, gaining new skills and pushing yourself to step into
professional adult life.
June + July Workplace Orientations: on one uni day per week, you will attend a series of
introductions to the workplaces of our employer partners, see what they do, get a
tour of their spaces, and meet their teams. You will get to try a few tasks and get a
feel for what they do in their business.
September - Task Tasters and Job Tasters: you will go in smaller groups (2-4 people) and try a
December small range of tasks for longer periods to start to warm up to experiencing the
structure of a work shift and feel the pace of work. You will have the chance to try
different employer workplaces and different roles.
February 2022 Internship: you will be ready to be matched to an employer with a range of tasks
that are just right for you. You will work two 5 hour shifts per week for four weeks
with a selection of tasks that you are good at. You will continue to come to uni for
one day a week. If successful, this is the position you will have in your
employment in 2022 and beyond!
March 2022 Graduation + Employment: you will be supported as you start your career in a 15
hour per week role!
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If you would like to apply send an
us an email and we will send you
the forms .
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We can t wait to hear from you !
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