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Transforming the lives of young people like Grace
The end of Year 12 loomed large for Grace, whose Down syndrome, visual and hearing impairments presented few, if no clear employment pathways.
But Grace is a talented artist. And in talking to Grace and mum Monica, it was clear that there was an opportunity to transform Grace’s love of designing handmade cards into a path of self-employment.
We helped put a plan in place to help Grace turn her hobby into a business.
Today, Grace sells her art on her Shopify store in the form of handmade cards, digital designed cards, custom candles, personalised etched glasses, screen printed t-shirts and tote bags. She donates 10% of her profits to Tutti Arts and employs a casual worker who is also a person with special abilities.
A fathers grateful letter
Dan was full of emotion watching his son read his writing to an audience for the first time, just a year after he tried to end his young life.
Typical Matthew - his stories were amazing, dense, eloquent and not exactly bedtime reading for kids!
But here he was. Calm and steady voice. And all exactly one year to the day that he took action to end his life
A year ago I was right against the wall. Matt had harmed himself, was placed on suicide watch and I was scrambling to find help for him.
I'm a single migrant parent. All there was between him and his impulse to end his life was me and a couple of cats. I needed every public support option available to find a way to get him back on his feet.
Only after a lot of calls and sleepless nights did I get the pillars in place for Matt, and the most important was getting him into Youth Options Youthspace. He needed 1:1 support and connection with great front-line case managers to simply survive, yet alone thrive.
Yet thrive Matt has.
Today he has his learners permit, can make a wicked coffee and is looking forward t o learning 3D art at the Academy of Interactive Entertainment next year. He feels confident, knows he can hit his arks and is getting ready for a career in games, an industry that grew over 70% in SA last year.
Matt is incredibly complex - ASD and struggling with some deeply embedded trauma that his psychiatrist is only starting to unpack. He's a 'no-hoper' if you compare him to the bright and shiny school leavers I see strolling out of their school systems clutching their ATAR scores in their hands.
In a place where seven figures is barely enough to buy you a shoebox of a home, Matt felt like he had no future life in Adelaide last year.
Everyone in Youth Options has shown Matt he's greater than the sum of his parts.
Not just a stat on the public record of long-term unemployment and healthcare, but a puzzle of a person that needs to make his own answers in life. An amazing dense and eloquent story he can write himself.
I'm so grateful for what you've done.
Sincerely
Dan
2021 Snapshots
11,620 mentoring hours to young people living with a disability
83 NDIS clients supported
903km of driving experience
880 work readiness sessions
670 driving experience sessions
488 woodworking sessions
343 garden skills sessions
341 social skills sessions
185 cooking skills sessions
181 metalwork & welding sessions
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