Empowered Pathways
Our personalised, Autism-affirming employment mentoring program.
Employment mentoring your way
Empowered Pathways is an Autism-affirming mentoring program providing individualised, 1:1 support for participants at various stages of their employment journey. Through Empowered Pathways, participants build independence, confidence and a sense of identity in the workplace. The idea is to build lifelong skills to achieve their employment goals at any stage of their career journey.
What to expect
Our Empowered Pathways program is unique, with every mentoring session tailored to your individual needs. Mentoring sessions investigate a variety of topics, such as:
Knowing your employment goals, strengths and skills
Understanding résumés and cover letters
Travel training for work
Interview skills
Social and business communication
Executive function, energy management and beyond
Program format
- 1-2 sessions per week (2 hour sessions)
- Local meeting locations
- Consistent mentor, time and location
- Combination of theoretical and practical activities
- Ongoing review sessions
Meet our mentors
Our mentors draw on a combination of Autism-affirming training and lived experience to support their mentees’ journeys. We try our best to match mentors with participants based on shared interests and lived experience to create the most impact for each mentee.
Izzy Sanderson (she/her)
Empowered Pathways Employment Mentor
Maddy White (she/her)
Empowered Pathways Employment Mentor
Elise Manson (she/her)
Project Administration Officer, Empowered Pathways Employment Mentor
Forrest Brett (he/him)
Empowered Pathways Employment Mentor
Michael Coles (he/him)
Program Facilitator and Empowered Pathways Employment Mentor
Register Your Interest
Interested in Empowered Pathways? To register your interest for this program and find out how it could work for you, please complete the registration form below or email us at programs@empowerautism.org.au