OFN investment supports ENABLE Works’ flagship schools transition programme Stepping Up, which enables young disabled people to make a successful transition from school into employment, education or training. Supporting young people age 16+, specialist Employment Coordinators work with each young person to build their aspiration for work and to gain the skills employers value. Through vocational profiling and action planning, young people will be supported to explore those aspirations by building core skills and undertaking supported work experience placements. The programme also engages and supports employers. Young People have access to ENABLE Works’ innovative employability app “ENABLE Me” which further develops life skills. Support is provided post school to ensure a successful and sustained transition for each young person.
Inspiring Scotland invites tenders to undertake a locality needs assessment for services responding to violence against women and girls. Glasgow East Women’s Aid in Easterhouse recently ceased operating bringing to an end their domestic abuse service and delivery of community gender-based violence (GBV) services in the area. This leaves a gap in direct frontline service
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We recently brought together organisations to host an event looking at where kinship care currently is in Scotland and where it needs to be to support young people and their wider families to thrive. The kinship care landscape in Scotland “We need to do more for kinship carers and children” Since 2016, Inspiring
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Earlier this month, some of the Inspiring Scotland Thrive Outdoors team, alongside partners hosted a workshop at the Power of Sport and Physical Activity Conference. The conference, held at Easterhouse Community Hub, marked 10 years since the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, and looked to celebrate the power of sport and physical activity for people to
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