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CHIEF MINISTER FOR THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION
Disabled People - Employment Programs
Question No 276
MR WOOD - Asked the Chief Minister upon notice on
19 September 1990:
(1) What programs exist in the ACT to assist disabled people to
enter the workforce.
(2) How many people have entered the workforce as a result of
these programs.
(3) What is the cost of those programs for the 1989-90 and
1990-91 financial years.
MR KAINE - The answer to the members question is as follows:
(1) Within the ACT assistance to disabled people wishing to
participate in the workforce is provided in respect of both the
public and private sectors. In the public sector there is the
Intellectual Disabilities Access Program (DAP) which aims to
place people with mild intellectual disabilities in the Public
Service on merit - without the normal competitive entry process.
ACT Government Departments are active in employing people under
DAP, and also in providing supported contract employment for a
number of Koomarri trainees formerly employed in the medical
packaging sheltered workshop.
In the private sector assistance is provided in the form of grants to community-based organisations under the Employment and Training Grants Program of the Community Development Fund. Relevant organisations presently receiving funding are:
The Koomarri Association; operates a Supported Employment
Service under the name of DOGWATCH. The DOGWATCH program
aims to place people with disabilities currently working
within Koomarri sheltered workshops into integrated
employment either by way of small group enclaves, exploded
enclaves or individual supported jobs.
Advance Personnel; operates a Competitive Employment Training and Placement Service (CET) directed towards individual placement into regular jobs at award wages in the normal workforce. Normal employee conditions apply, the individual is on the payroll of the employer and the CET provides an intense but short period of one-to-one training
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