Autism Calgary’s With Precision Services: Social Enterprise Project is being established to provide mentoring and support for our participants (adults with medium to high functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder) in preparing for their long and short term career objectives

2. GOAL
The aim of Autism Calgary’s With Precision Services: Social Enterprise
Project is to address the plight of individuals with ASD in regards to
their :
• Engagement and inclusion in employment,
• Self-employment,
• Contract and freelance opportunities.

3. WHY?
Autism Calgary’s With Precision Services: Social Enterprise Project has
identified the following factors in the Market that require support for
Adults with ASD:
• High unemployment rate among individuals with ASD,
• Gap in Service
• Employer stigma towards adults with ASD

4. MISSION AND VISION
The mission of Autism Calgary is to:
Support: Bring hope and help meet the needs of families and individuals living with Autism
Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
Speak: Be the voice of families and individuals living with ASD.
Educate: Increase Awareness and Understanding of ASD.
Advocate: Secure and defend the best quality of life for those with ASD and their families
throughout the lifespan.
Promote: Encourage the advancement of meaningful research and the development of
effective treatment options.
Our Vision is, “To See Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) living meaning and
purposeful lives in a community that values them.”

5. OBJECTIVES?
Autism Calgary’s With Precision Services: Social Enterprise Project is
being established to provide mentoring and support for our
participants (adults with medium to high functioning Autism Spectrum
Disorder) in preparing for their long and short term career objectives:
• Support in preparing for, obtaining and keeping
employment or becoming self-employed,
• Enhance participant’s employability skills including
personal, learning, independence and job related
competencies,

6. OBJECTIVES?
• Identify barriers that hinder participants’ involvement in
the labour market with the aim of increasing their economic
participation,
• Provide individualized on going employment related and
work place support to ensure participants are able to
maintain employment.

7. OBJECTIVES?
• Build on existing knowledge base including developing best
practices,
• Provide holistic supports and services through our program
activities as well as collaboration with community partners.

8. KEYS TO SUCESS
 Establish trust and understanding with potential employers and
deliver results overcoming employer stigma.
 Develop and share a management model that will enable companies
and workplaces to hire and manage our participants.

9. KEYS TO SUCCESS
 Bring together a community of diverse strategic partners from the
private, corporate, public and community sectors.
 Recognition in the business community as a comprehensive
employment service for adults with ASD.

10. KEYS TO SUCCESS
 Establish trust with potential participants as a non-profit devoted to
creating win-win situations for employees with ASD and their
employers.
 Develop and share a management model that will enable companies
and workplaces to hire and optimize the potential of our
participants.

11. KEYS TO SUCCESS
 Bring together a community of diverse strategic partners from the
private, corporate, public and community sectors.
 Expand our profile in the business community as an employment
resource for adults with ASD.

12. LOCATION AND FACILITY
 The initial office will be established in Calgary at The Ability Hub
located in the Child Development Centre on the University of
Calgary campus.
 The program will support other organizations that might benefit
from a similar program.
 Replication of the program in at least one other site in Canada will
occur during the initial five years of the program.

13. MILESTONES

14. SERVICES
 Social Enterprise Readiness Programs
 Network Knowledge Provider Program

15. SOCIAL ENTERPRISE READINESS
Initiate and develop an innovative and effective approach that meets
the needs of people with ASD through the creation of a commercially
viable business with employment opportunities for 44 persons with
high functioning ASD.
The program will also create linkages to other employment or post-
secondary opportunities for adults with ASD who are not suitable for,
or not interested in the social enterprise. Linkages to post-secondary
opportunities will also be created.

16. NETWORK KNOWLEDGE PROVIDER
With Precision hopes to deploy initial pilot projects across Canada
using developed program toolkits and best practices by selecting and
training partner organizations (including other established
associations, networks or organizations that serve individuals with
ASD).
With Precision will also collaborate with key partners to provide
conferences to disseminate knowledge and best practice information
and to build on existing networks.

17. INTENDED RESULTS
1. Autism Calgary is committed to furthering its partnerships and
networks to encourage increased knowledge and social responsibility
among various community stakeholders concerning the social and
employment challenges facing Adults with ASD.

18. PROGRAM DELIVERABLES
• 1000 potential employers will have been reached (by the end of
year five) with our outreach workshops to foster a greater
understanding of the social and financial issues and challenges
facing adults with ASD and encourage corporate responsibility in
tackling these issues.
GOAL 1: Promote and facilitate hiring of people with autism by collaborating
to create on-line resources to assist HR departments.
GOAL 2: To create on-line resources to assist job seekers with Autism.

19. PROGRAM DELIVERABLES
• Facilitate and participate in conferences and workshops with at least
25 private partners each year where we will form networks and
share knowledge best practices best practices with partners and
stakeholders.

20. PROGRAM DELIVERABLES
• Autism Calgary Social Enterprise will ensure diverse representation
of stakeholders :
• Customer Corporations
• Public Sector
• Employer Companies
• Private Financial Partners
• Autism and Disability Sector
• Community

21. INTENDED RESULTS
2. Autism Calgary will initiate the development and utilization of social
enterprise as a new vehicle for social change as regards the
enhancement of employment opportunities for a adults with ASD. This
will include the development of a new employment social enterprise
that will compete in the market for technical service contracts and hire
44 adults with ASD to carry out the contract requirements.

22. PROGRAM DELIVERABLES
• The creation and dissemination of a toolkit, which outlines best
practices, resources, methodologies, etc.
• Initiate pilot projects across Canada using developed program
toolkit and best practices by selecting and training partner
organizations that serve individuals with ASD)
• Collaborate with key partners to provide conferences to disseminate
knowledge and best practice information and build on existing
networks.
• Generate over 50% of project funding with earned revenue from the
employment social enterprise by year five.

23. INTENDED RESULTS
3. We will disseminate, promote and share knowledge and best
practices of With Precision Services: Social Enterprise Project to better
serve individuals with ASD both in Calgary and in other centers across
Canada.

24. PROGRAM DELIVERABLES
• Challenging other non-profits across Canada to embrace
employment based social enterprising for individuals with ASD.
• Community engagement through networking with various private
partners (as either potential employers or corporate customers for
the social enterprise) so as to foster corporate responsibility.
• Working with the Faculty of Education on a quantitative and
qualitative evaluation of the program.
• Working with the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary
to evaluate the impact of the program from an economic
perspective.

25. INTENDED RESULTS
4. We will enhance the well-being of the 44 employees in the Calgary
Social enterprise including increased life skills, increased confidence,
increased independence, workplace participation and economic
involvement through:
• Income Security (employment in the program)
• Access to opportunities (increased knowledge and exposure (e.g.
through social enterprise contracts, national conferences and
employer workshops)

26. BENEFICIARIES
Adults with ASD: Targeted participants will be adults (18 and over) with high
functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder (Asperger’s Syndrome) who are employable
but have been unsuccessful in obtaining and/or maintaining employment despite the
help of other employment assistance programs or because they have been ineligible
for other employment assistance programs.

27. BENEFICIARIES
Employers: Because of the worker shortage for companies in Calgary, many
employers will benefit not only from a new outsourcing service but also from a new
pool of employees to draw from. This is especially important in light of the recent
research release by The Talent Pool Society of Calgary (created by the Calgary
Chamber of Commerce) which reports that “Alberta can expect a shortage of workers
approximately 114,000 workers by the year 2019”. In anticipation of huge shortfall of
workers expected over the next decade, The Talent Pool strongly encourages
businesses in Alberta to “expand your search and consider people with disabilities”.
Autism Calgary’s with Precision Services: Social Enterprise Project opens up a
resourceful pool of individuals (adults with ASD) who have appropriate skills,
knowledge and education to fill this gap.

28. BENEFICIARIES
Government: According to The Canadian Social Enterprise Guide 2nd Edition
(2010), “as they become more successful and known in the marketplace, social
enterprises can bring in anywhere from 5% to 100% of an organization’s revenue”.
This is important in facilitating the stability and sustainability of non-profit
organization programs. This in turn eases pressure on the already overly
oversubscribed and overstretched government resources.

29. BENEFICIARIES
Other Centres: Many other non-profits in Canada will benefit from exploring this
new and innovative income generating approach to meeting social, cultural and
economic needs of the target participants. Social enterprises will enhance these
organization’s programs and services. This will help organizations achieve their
missions more effectively and generate new revenue streams that enable them to
stabilize and diversify their funding bases. The income generating aspects of this
approach is particularly important in light of the changing nature of government
funding. Government funding programs are becoming increasingly oversubscribed
and overstretched and more difficult to access especially for newer or emerging non-
profits.

30. MORE INFORMATION ?
Autism Calgary
174, 3359-27th Street NE
403-250-5033
403-250-2625
http://www.autismcalgary.com/

31. “It is no use saying ‘We are doing our best.' You have to succeed in doing what is
necessary.”
- Sir Winston Churchill