NexGenCounselling Mentoring Program

We offer one-on-one strength-based employment support to assist teens and adults on the autism spectrum to prepare for finding and maintaining meaningful employment.

Mentoring support is tailored to each individual’s needs and can include the following:

• Autism-specific job skills assessment, occupational decision-making, and skills matching

• Supporting job seekers to identify, search, and apply for suitable and meaningful jobs

• Support key transitions through schools, further education, employment, and whole life

• Pre-vocational skills development such as transport, time management, understanding your finances, building skills for independence

• Job readiness and preparation

• Developing and improving skills for finding employment including interview skills, writing an effective resume, and selling yourself to an employer

• Developing skills for finding and maintaining employment including communication, organizational, and social skills, and understanding the hidden curriculum of the workplace and the underlying expectations of employees

• Understanding your autism and your unique skills and strengths for the workplace

• Developing self-awareness and building confidence in the workplace

• Workplace orientation and identifying reasonable adjustments

• Sourcing and settling into jobs, internships, placements, work experience, and volunteering opportunities

• Individual employment support including training for employers

Locations

NexGenCounselling offers face-to-face appointments in Queensland.