Margaret Haddock The Orchardville Society

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Margaret HaddockThe Orchardville Society

• Employment for Autism

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The Orchardville Society

• Formed 1982
• Parents Organisation
• Growth during 1990s
• Current Service Provision
• Future Challenges

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Development Partnership Partners

• NOW Project.
• PAPA
• North and West Belfast Health and Social Services
  Trust
• South and East Belfast Health and Social Srvices
  Trust
• Department for Employment and Learning
  (Disability Advisory Service)

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Rationale for DP

• Currently no service provision for adults with
  ASD
• Growing population of people with ASD
• Specialised training requirements for staff.
• Models of intervention towards employment
  /supported employment.

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DP Objectives

• Involvement of people with ASD throughout all
  actions.
• Positioning of people with ASD within the labour
  market.
• Best practice model/models from Europe
  test-bedded within Northern Ireland.
• Key front line staff trained
• Dissemination.
• Mainstreaming of findings within Dept. of Health
  and Employment