Project SEARCH which offers one-year internship programmes supporting young people, age 16-25, with a learning disability and/or autism, enabling them to gain the skills and experience to move into paid employment. The project is going from strength to strength, with 70% of last year’s interns now in employment.
The project, which is run in collaboration with Grŵp Llandrillo Menai, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, Agoriad Cyf and Learning Disability Wales, narrowly missed out on an award at the prestigious Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board Staff Achievement Awards held recently at Venue Cymru.
A new group of ten trainees from Project SEARCH have recently moved into their new base at Ysbyty Gwynedd, benefiting from a larger space and a permanent home at the old crèche on the hospital site.
Tracey Amos from Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said: “There were a record breaking number of nominations this year and the Project SEARCH team were finalists in the Advancing Equality category, which was testament to their hard work and success. The project itself continues to go from strength to strength, with 70% of last year’s interns now in employment.”
Independent Living Skills Programme Area Manager Eifiona Williams said: “We are extremely proud to be working in collaboration with the Health Board, Agoriad and Learning Disability Wales to offer these opportunities to local young people. This is such an important project that will undoubtedly offer young people with learning difficulties/disabilities and/or autism meaningful work experiences and pathways to employment.”
For more information on courses in Independent Living Skills at Grŵp Llandrillo Menai, please visit: www.gllm.ac.uk/ils
For more information on the Engage to Change project, please visit: www.ldw.org.uk/project/engage-to-change/
Project SEARCH at the recent BCUHB awards
