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Mission
• To create and facilitate opportunities for people with intellectual disability
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Vision
• A community that creates opportunities for people with intellectual disability.
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OneNS Presentation
• Workforce Participation
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“Our greatest asset is our people”
• “communities, educational settings and workplaces need to demonstrate that we are an open and welcoming society.”
• “we need to be more inclusive in our responses to the needs and aspirations of our own citizens in visible minority communities –Mi’kmaq and African Nova Scotians – and people with disabilities.”
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“Opportunities”
• “social enterprises are doing impressive work”
• “Expanded training and employment support is available for women, older workers, at risk youth and people with disabilities”
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“Successful Models”
• “roundtable of leaders from gov’t, industry, educational institutions, unions, First Nations, and community organizations”
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Four Key Messages
• Employment Services
• School to Workforce Participation
• Social Enterprise
• Partnerships
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Employment Services
• Employment strategies must help people with disability connect to the workforce
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School to Workforce Participation
• Strategies must help students with disability connect to the workforce
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Social Enterprise
• Strategies must help people with disability participate in the workforce
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In general Social Enterprise in NS
• Well established
• Locally operated
• Innovative
• Job creators
• Socially driven
• Help define what it means to be Nova Scotian
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Partnerships
• Nothing happens without committed partners.
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Employment Services
• Last year our employer partners helped our clients earn
• $606,000 in wages
• an increase of $59,000 over the previous year
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Volunteerism and Work-Experience
• Last year our employer and not-for-profit partners helped our clients contribute
• 12,300 hours to their community.
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• “The Commission sees a profound need to come together around a shared vision for real change in the province, one in which the different regions, communities and economic sectors can all see a better future, and are willing to pursue it through dialogue, cooperation and collaboration rather than isolation, competition and conflict.”
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What can you do
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Shared Vision
• With and for people with disability
• On strategies and services that support the aspirations of the person
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Cool things are happening
• Development of proposed legislation on Accessibility
• Services for Persons with Disability Program roadmap for transition to a more Person Centered model with an increased emphasis on employment
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Mixed Messages
• Decrease in funding for Job Coaches
• Slow progress in development of Funding Framework for the sector
• Disincentives for workforce participation
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What could change
• STOP practices that discourage workforce participation
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What Could Change
• Enhance partnership with social enterprise
• Infrastructure investment
• Government Purchasing
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What Could Change
• School to Workforce Participation Partnerships that build on existing services
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What Could Change
• A culture of partnerships that increase workforce participation of people with disability
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Directions Council
• 29 agencies like Summer Street
• 2000 people with disability engaged in a variety of employment services
• Willingness “to come together around a shared vision” for real change
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Partnerships
• Private Sector
• Economic Development
• Labour & Advanced Education
• Community Services
• Directions
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What will you we all get
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What do our Clients want
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How can you help
• Support DCS in the development of a funding framework in cooperation with our sector that supports the person
• Support the initiative by DCS and Directions to pay sector clients $5.00 a day
• Support our sector by encouraging government departments to purchase from social enterprises
• Support school to workforce participation between education and our sector
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Vision
• Our Vision - a community that creates opportunities for people with intellectual disability.
• OneNS – “an open and welcoming society”
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What will it take
• “a shared vision for real change in the province”
• And
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