Meet the PEER Team

Careers and Employment Facilitators (CEFs) support young people with intellectual disabilities as they navigate life after school, whether that means stepping into further education or exploring employment pathways. The work is relational, responsive, and often deeply personal. It involves building trust, working alongside schools and families, and walking with participants as they shape their futures.

Our work does not pause when summer begins. The season brings a different rhythm. With schools closed, the pace softens, but the work continues in ways that reflect what participants need most at this time of year.

Participants stay engaged over the summer, each in their own way. One is gaining confidence through a retail placement, while another is settling more confidently into a football club role. One young person, having completed their first year of college in June, is spending the summer enjoying some space before their next step. It is a quiet reminder that growth also includes rest. Others are taking part in job site visits, career planning, and college visits, while we continue working to secure new opportunities for the months ahead.

Alongside our direct work with participants, the summer also gives the team space to focus inward. We spend time on internal audits to strengthen how we track progress, improve our systems, and prepare for the return to school. And in those quieter moments, we have begun something new in the form of storytelling and reflection.

This is the first of those stories.

The idea is simple. We want to share not just what we do, but why we do it, and who we do it with.

There is so much to be proud of. We walk alongside in the progress of the young people, in the trust they place in us and in the steady and collaborative work that supports each of those journeys.