Society executive director Manj Toor said the local effort will help support 120 people with disabilities in seeking employment
Victoria’s John Howard Society has received $1.5 million in federal funding to help people with disabilities get into the job market.
While some know the society for its work integrating people who have been in the prison system, Toor said its mandate is “much broader and more inclusive.”The society also offers affordable residential housing. In 2017, an estimated 852,000 of the country’s 1.9 million people with disabilities aged 15 to 64 — 45 per cent — were not employed, Qualtrough said.
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