Connecting Pathways to Employment with the Work Integration Social Enterprise (WISE) - Ability Model: Final Report

CSI researchers have been working with Disability Enterprises (previously known as Australian Disability Enterprises or ADEs) to develop an organisational design model to support pathways to mainstream employment for participants. This approach builds on previous work with Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs) that identified the organisational design features that best support the health, wellbeing, and employment outcomes of marginalised young people in a social enterprise environment. WISEs have a social purpose to provide transitional pathways to meaningful work for people with experiences of marginalisation, including people with a disability. In this report we:

• Provide an updated WISE-Ability model and share findings from our research with Disability Enterprise partners;
• Outline the challenges Disability Enterprises face in carving out employment pathways using NDIS funding.
• Outline what works to generate employment pathways.