We have awarded a grant of nearly £30,000 to The Royal Association for Deaf People to support their Deaf Youth Advance project, which seeks to provide a holistic careers and wellbeing support service to 100 deaf young people in London aged 11-16. In-school workshops and 1:1 support will cover a wide variety of careers and wellbeing topics such as:
* identifying and discussing career aspirations/options
* understanding and matching requirements
* skills or qualifications required for job fields and courses
* selecting GCSEs; job-market discussion
* workplace support available for deaf employees and advocacy for accessibility
* CV preparation
* application support
* confidence building
* financial education
We hope our grant will contribute towards empowering deaf young people to seek and attain their career aspirations, improve wellbeing and remove barriers to achieve equality of opportunity.