Updated: March 1, 2025
Resource type: Research report
Research theme: Employment and Transitions
Language: English
Description
IMPACT 2.0 aims to address employment rates for youth with developmental disabilities by intervening with youth as they transition from school to work through the implementation and evaluation of youth summer employment interventions/programs with ten agency members of the BC Employment Network.
Full information
Since 2020, researchers at the institute and community-based agencies connected to the BC Employment Network collaborated on the Impact Project. After a successful three years working with eight agencies, 283 youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), and over 100 parents and carers, we launched Impact 2.0.
Impact 2.0 continues and expands this research objective to investigate what types of tailored vocational training and planning practices are most effective in positively impacting youth their knowledge about employment, employment experiences and future employment outcomes.
Reports from Impact and Impact 2.0 to date are below.
Impact 2.0 will start its final cohort for the Summer of 2025.