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Through our community investment, WISE aims to affect positive change in employment prospects for people who are, or are at risk of becoming, long term unemployed. By influencing government policy and program development, identifying models of good management and good practice, developing working partnerships between non-government bodies and government and implementing projects that directly benefit individuals and communities, we hope to achieve this positive change.
To meet all of these objectives, it was considered essential that the projects be formally evaluated by an external, objective party. We formed a partnership with the Social Exclusion Group of Deakin University’s Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences and funded a Research Program, which focused on job seekers who are highly disadvantaged in the labour market – ex-offenders, mature aged workers and people with a disability.
This research underpinned WISE’s Make it Work program and further seed funding enabled Deakin to establish the Working Network, an industry think tank that explored the systematic barriers to employing older workers. We also invested in the Reintegration Puzzle, an industry symposium which focuses on the complex challenge of supporting the re-integration of ex-offenders back into the community. |
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