Youth Employment Support

Youth Employment Support by Metta Welfare Association equips Metta School graduates and youths with special needs for meaningful employment and independence through structured training and supported employment pathways.

• Arts@Metta: Visual arts training (batik painting, pottery) for youths with mild intellectual disability with/without autism, fostering life skills such as work etiquette, punctuality, task completion, and time management. Provides a safe, nurturing environment and leverages commissioned projects and retail sales to create supported employment opportunities.
• Metta Café: An F&B vocational training and apprenticeship programme for Metta School graduates aged 18+ with mild intellectual disability and/or autism, offering on-the-job training in a commercial setting to build vocational, work, and life skills, and to support transition to open employment.
• ECO@Metta: Sustainability-focused supported employment where youths produce all-natural orange enzyme cleaners from food waste, conduct CSR workshops, and develop social skills, promoting inclusive hiring and a circular economy.
• Support services include social development and life skills training, caregivers’ support, and corporate social responsibility engagement platforms.
• Outcomes include supported and open employment opportunities across F&B, services, sales, and administration sectors.