News, Newsletter, Inclusive Design | 24th September 2024
Ability Works partnerships and grant funding projects.
Ability Works has started an exciting project with the Department of Social Services to help Ability Works employees find jobs with external organisations. This project, announced by Minister Rishworth in April, is led by the Customised Employment team. They work closely with employees to find jobs that match their skills and interests.
Thanks to this innovative approach, Ability Works is one of only eight organisations in Victoria to receive special funding. The project aims to help at least 16 employees find meaningful jobs over the next two years. Employees interested in this opportunity should talk to the support team for more information.
Ability Works’ Inclusive Design team is excited about successfully winning a significant grant from the Victorian government. This grant will enable the Inclusive Design team to build disability inclusion consulting and training, co-designing with people with lived experience of a disability to deliver practical and inclusive employment initiatives with organisations.
Working together with Swinburne University, the team will build a Skills Gap Assessment and Evaluation Tool, supported with unaccredited micro-credentials training by the end of the 12-month grant period. After the grant period, there will be work to progress the training to accredited micro-credential training.
We are looking to work with organisations interested in being involved in the research being conducted to build an inclusive culture, please contact InclusiveDesign@AbilityWorks.com to be a part of our focus groups and interviews.
Visitors from organisations looking to potentially partner with Ability Works pictured below on tour during September were…
Ability Works Australia has packed, assembled and distributed approximately, 90,000 testing kits since myDNA became a customer in 2017.
We actively encourage visitors to our facility in Kew to see our 130 employees’ active at a variety of tasks…
We are delighted to partner with our first major infrastructure customer the North Western Program Alliance…
This month’s theme in the Ability Works workplace has been ‘Efficiency for Growth’.
In Oct 2017, I joined a relatively unknown Australian Disability Enterprise, Ability Works in Melbourne, as CEO…
Staff volunteering is an important part of many Corporate Social Responsibility strategies. Our new program…
With over 180,000 ANZAC badges and wrist bands to assemble then pack, our team has been busy…
“Since 2011, Transurban has worked with Ability Works, a not-for-profit organisation…
Ben and Laura love working at Ability Works Australia. It’s also where they found love for each other.
James says he had great difficulty retaining jobs, sometimes being dismissed within a very short period. At Ability Works Australia James feels very much at home – accepted, encouraged, and challenged.
Rory is singer-songwriter with the popular Australian group, Rudely Interrupted.
Ruby says she spent around four years trying to find a job, without success. Ability Works Australia changed all that. Here, she enjoys a variety of tasks, has grown in confidence while building on her skills, and says she has made many friends.
Dridan’s mother Jenny says that he would probably be just ‘on the couch at home’,…
In July we launched a new Business unit – Records Management involving: scanning, testing, digitising, coding…
With opportunities to support the State’s major infrastructure projects leveraging our Wire & Metal Fabrication operation…
We have supplied the Mc Connell Dowell Decimil Joint Venture (MCDDJV) on the Mordialloc Freeway upgrade project.
With lots of brands and growth in Building and Construction, multinational Stanley Black and Decker (SBD) selected Ability Works as a preferred packing and assembly supplier in Aug 2018.
As we round out 2019, we wish to say thank you to all our customers and some specific partner organisations that have provided pro bono and other assistance this year.
With our mission of Purpose, pride and belonging through inclusive employment…
The World Health Organisation has declared Coronavirus (COVID-19) a global Pandemic.
The Coronavirus ( COVID – 19) pandemic continues to cause upheaval around the globe.
The Victorian Government is starting to ease restrictions in response to COVID – 19 in the community.
Over the past two weeks we have seen a lifting of some of the COVID-19 restrictions…
Metropolitan Melbourne and the Mitchell Shire have returned to Stage 3 Lockdown but Ability Works continues to trade.
Metropolitan Melbourne has moved to Stage 4 restrictions for 6 weeks until Sunday 13 September…
Team member Mark Galotta explains how Ability Works has given him welding opportunities…
Ability Works features in the Oct 2020 ICN Prospect magazine with article ‘Ability Works – bringing purpose and belonging to the community.’
People with disabilities are preserving the memories of Australian Defence Force members as part of a massive project to digitise the files of ADF members currently stored at Victoria Barracks, Melbourne.
CEO Sue Boyce on the panel for ‘Delivering Better Outcomes for Social Procurement’ giving…
Team member Michael and customer Sharon Harnett from Department of Defence…
Victorian approach ‘making a huge difference.’
The World Health Organisation has declared Coronavirus (COVID-19) a global Pandemic…
“When COVID-19 hit and his commission-based pay dropped to “$200 or $300 a week”…
Ability Works, Transurban, Aurecon, RMIT Marketing and Apricot Consulting’s…
Story on AWA’s Record Scanning business unit supervisor Kani Vincent Paul…
“Social enterprise Ability Works Australia has provided crucial welding and metal fabrication…
“In this episode we talk to CEO of Ability Works Sue Boyce on the topic of inclusion…
Sue Boyce (Ability Works CEO) was interviewed by Marni Roper…
Ability Works and Transurban win ‘Partnership of the Year” Social Traders 2020 award for Collaboration, Creativity and Advocacy.
Ability Works employees Terry Drier and Laura Robinson featured in the Herald Sun…
“Social enterprise Ability Works, in the Melbourne suburb of Kew…
Last year, YT trialled using QR codes at stops, letting passengers…
An insight into a future that will propel people with disability onto an equal footing in workplaces.
“How to design more inclusive cities” by Byte Size to promote our Inclusive Design business unit…
Read the full article from The Guardian here…
“While many people living with disability are able to work unhindered, some face unique barriers…
Ability Works’ manufacturing supervisor, Helen and our CEO Sue Boyce appeared on…
Aurecon’s inclusive design approach harnessed the unique insights of our employees with a disability.
Our May edition of Magic that Matters is now available. This is…
For a two minute Virtual Tour of Ability Works services, watch this video. Contact us for an on site Facility Tour.
Our June edition of Magic that Matters is now available.
The importance of consulting people with disabilities when looking at Victoria’s public transport network.
Our July edition of Magic that Matters is now available as Callum is proudly showing off!
Our August edition of Magic that Matters is now available as employee Dridan is happily illustrating in this pic. Enjoy!!
Did anyone see our tram over the weekend? Keep an eye for it around town over the next 16 weeks!
We are winners of the Social Traders Vic & Tas 2022 Gamechanger award.
Our August edition of Magic that Matters is now available as employee Dridan is happily illustrating in this pic. Enjoy!!
The latest podcast, “Getting It Right”, hosted by Craig Foster features our very own Mark Golotta.
Our October edition of Magic that Matters is now available. Enjoy!!
Please enjoy the second last newsletter for the year! As always it captures the amazing work of the Ability Works team.
Toyota’s Continuous Improvement team has contributed pro bono services to Ability Works for our customer Transurban.
SBS World News reporting that the current job market is not delivering for people with barriers to employment.
Behind the scenes of our latest video project in collaboration with Transurban.
Ability Works partnerships and grant funding projects.
Swinburne University students are designing an accessible tap.
Ability Works Inclusive Design in the News with Big Plans Melbourne
Please enjoy the second last newsletter for the year! As always it captures the amazing work of the Ability Works team.
Co-designing with White Box on a Financial Wellbeing Program.
