Introducing Career Connect: Supporting Care-Experienced Young People into Employment
Career Connect is a Business in the Community and Include Youth initiative, funded by the Bright Path Fund, which supports care-experienced young people across Northern Ireland.
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Date:
21 May 2026
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Time:
11:00 am - 11:30 am
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Location:
Online event
Career Connect is a new Business in the Community and Include Youth initiative, funded by the Bright Path Fund, supporting care-experienced young people across Northern Ireland. Running from February 2026 to March 2027, the programme will help over 40 young people build skills, confidence and connections through workshops, networking and meaningful work experience. The project addresses growing inequality faced by care-experienced young people and aims to improve long-term employment outcomes while preventing homelessness.
This webinar will introduce Career Connect, outline how your business can get involved at no cost, and show how participation delivers real social value in action
What attendees will learn
- Understand how Career Connect supports young people through workshops, networking and work experience
- Explore simple, no‑cost ways for businesses to get involved
Agenda
- Overview of Career Connect and the need it addresses
- How the programme works: workshops, networking, work experience and digital engagement
- Ways your business can get involved
- Training and support for corporate partners
- Q&A and next steps
This event is free to attend and most suitable for businesses interested in community impact and youth employability and HR, L&D and Early Careers teams.
As a funded initiative, this event and Career Connect is open to both members and non‑members of Business in the Community.
Relevant Links
For further information, please contact mhairi.sim@bitcni.org.uk.
Beyond Career Connect, additional support is available for employers through a mentoring project being delivered by Extern.