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Category: DREAM blogs

A hand-drawn map

When mainstream employment is inaccessible, and the usual advice isn’t working, sometimes a passion project can lead to unexpected opportunities.

Where is the stable work for young people?

A young, smiling woman with fair skin and shoulder-length dark blond hair. She is wearing glasses, a black top and a pink blazer with an Autism Pride rainbow infinity pin on the lapel. She is standing in front of Parliament House in Canberra, a wide, low, white building with the Australian flag flying over it.

When formal training and years of experience still don’t lead to ongoing work – Ashleigh Keating writes about the struggle to find stable employment as a young person with disability.

The Disabled Employee Podcast – Episode 4: When the contract ends

Text reads "The Disabled Employee". Under the text are three stick figures, one with shoulder length curly hair wearing sunglasses, one with long blond hair using a power wheelchair, and one with purple highlights in their hair holding a cane. In the bottom right corner, hands are typing on a laptop with various snacks and computer equipment strewn about.

Young people with disability often find that the work available to them is short-term contract work. So, how do you deal when you are regularly facing unemployment at the end of your latest contract? Dureece, Thanh and Britt talk about finding the next opportunity, the impact of being of being in limbo between jobs, and the pitfalls of the Disability Support Pension.

Accessible work day tour

Three images side by side. The first is the words "work place vlog" with some stars above in cut out newspaper font. The second is a photo of a young femme presenting person with shoulder length brown hair and brown eyes, wearing a rainbow lanyard and holding up a barbie with a bionic leg. In the third image the same young person is pictured above text that reads: "Name: Izzie. Pronouns: She/They. Works at: YDAN". The YDAN logo sits bottom-right. There is a small smiley face to the right.

Izzie Choate takes us on a tour of YDAN, talking about accessibility in the workplace as part of CYDA’s DREAM Employment Network.

Leadership

Four photographs featuring the same young woman playing Aussie rules football with gusto, running and tackling. She is wearing two different uniforms in different photos, one green, one red. She is fair skinned with short brown hair.

Louise Weekley talks about how her idea of leadership has been influenced by her experience of disability and changed over time.

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