“The really special thing about the cooperative model,” says Nundah Community Enterprises Co-operative (NCEC) Coordinator, Richard Warner, “is that they’re member-owned.”
“So often when we talk about complex disadvantage we’re talking about people whose primary role in life has been as a recipient of services. The cooperative model turns it around—it provides a sense of ownership and gives people an active role in the decision making of how the enterprise is run. It really is helping people to help themselves.”
The Brisbane-based NCEC’s members are people with intellectual disabilities or mental health issues who’d faced disadvantage and social exclusion as a result of being long-term unemployed.
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