100 new jobs for Logan youth living with a disability
A new multi-million-dollar employment hub opening today will create jobs for more than 100 Logan youth living with a disability.
The search is on for teenagers from local high schools and young people with disability to begin on-the-job training in administration and supply chain roles, including forklift driver, administration officer, packaging, product assembly, and warehousing.
Queensland’s leading disability employment charity, Help Enterprises, has spent $3.3 million on the Crestmead Centre of Excellence, which it says will tackle youth unemployment head-on.
Help Enterprises CEO Kerry Browne said it was designed to be a place where students in Years 10 to 12 build skills and confidence, so they can transition into full-time work once they graduate from high school. Currently, there are 3000 students with a disability who attend schools in the Logan and Brisbane Southside area.
“These are young adults who might otherwise fall through the cracks,” Mr Browne said.
“Through the centre, they’re getting hands-on experience and skills that they can continue to take into the workforce, and we’re thrilled to be able to offer 100 jobs.”
Mitchell Grey is one of the many job seekers who has been employed by Help Enterprises.
“I really wanted to get a job and get money and have somewhere to go after I finish Year 12 and now I do have somewhere to go,” he said. “I’m really thankful for that.”
The facility has been made possible thanks to a $1 million donation from Queensland charity Hand Heart Pocket the Charity of Freemasons Queensland.
Hand Heart Pocket CEO Gary Mark said they were proud to support an organisation which helped give young adults with disability the same opportunities as other people their age.
“Help Enterprises is not only providing employment opportunities but educational opportunities to suitably equip young people with a disability to forge a future for themselves,” Mr Mark said.
Help Enterprises has been helping people with a disability for 50 years. The organisation, which is headquartered at Eagle Farm, employs more than 950 people, 350 of whom have a disability. Jobs include building metal rubbish bin enclosures supplied to Brisbane City Council and assembling airline travel kits. HELP has 6 Employment Offices in and around Logan to assist job seekers with their journey to open employment.
HOW WE DID IT
Logan’s youth living with disability were given access to new opportunities this week, with an employment hub aimed at providing training and jobs opening in Crestmead.
Leading disabled employment charity Help Enterprises turned to Adoni Media to help gain media coverage of the initiative that aims to prevent young adults with disability falling through the cracks once they graduate from high school.
The $3.3 million centre in Crestmead opened on Wednesday (31 October). Channel 7 was there to capture the event and interview Help Enterprises’ CEO Kerry Browne, Hand Heart Pocket CEO Gary Mark whose charity donated $1 million to the centre, and young people with disability who now have employment as a result of the Crestmead facility.
Adoni Media’s team snapped photographs for the local newspaper while 4BC’s Drive program with Mark Braybrook dedicated 8 minutes of air time to discussing the Help Enterprises’ charity and the Crestmead centre with Kerry Browne.
Media coverage is a wonderful way to help spread awareness of the work charities do – and in this instance, help to raise the profile of this amazing new initiative from Help Enterprises.
