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Youth programs.
STEAM workshops, outings, social groups and online communities for neurodivergent young people.
Neurodiversity workshops.
Our team works alongside schools and organisations to deliver training and workshops that inform inclusive programs and cultures.
Research consultancy.
Looking to co-design research alongside the neurodivergent community? Partner with our consultants to ensure it’s done authentically and in line with best practice.
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When we prioritise inclusivity, we all win.
Imagine a world where neurodivergent youth are engaged in their learning environments, feel free to be themselves, and are welcomed into the workplace with their unique skill sets. That’s a world where we all benefit. When you work with FutureTech, you have the chance to build this future with us.
Embrace community
Diversity is the answer to complexity. Working with us connects you to a vibrant community of people who think differently, with skills that are already changing the world.
Transform culture
Embedding inclusivity in schools and workplaces benefits everyone. Better results and stronger teams are built when your culture reflects your people.
Facilitate employment
We employ neurodivergent people across all our programs. However you work with us, you are providing more opportunities for neurodivergent people who often face barriers to work.
Strengthen opportunities
However you work with FutureTech, you’re enabling us to make our youth-centred programs stronger, giving hundreds of neurodivergent young people an opportunity to discover their passions, stay social, and thrive.
Case Studies
FutureTech works with a variety of organisations, schools, and community groups. Get a taste of what we do through these stories.
Advancing Research into Autistic Wellbeing in Education
Overview
Since 2024, FutureTech founder and CEO Rebecca McCash has been co-supervising a Master’s student at the University of Melbourne conducting a scoping review into Autistic wellbeing frameworks in educational settings. This collaboration reflects FutureTech’s commitment to advancing knowledge, improving practice, and embedding lived experience into the academic research process.
Our Role
Rebecca’s involvement has supported the research through both subject matter expertise and lived experience guidance:
- Co-Supervision & Mentoring: Providing regular support and supervision to the student, including reviewing drafts and supporting their academic development.
- Curating and Reviewing Literature: Assisting in identifying key research and evaluating existing wellbeing frameworks through a neuro-affirming lens.
- Advising on Language and Framing: Ensuring that the review reflects strengths-based, respectful, and accurate understandings of Autistic wellbeing.
- Bringing Practice Insights: Drawing on FutureTech’s own wellbeing framework and experience in schools to inform the analysis and relevance of findings.
Impact
This partnership has helped shape a research process that is academically rigorous and deeply grounded in lived experience:
- Improved Relevance to Practice: The findings are being shaped by insights from on-the-ground work with neurodivergent young people.
- Stronger Ethical Framing: Rebecca’s input has helped the research avoid deficit-based assumptions and centre Autistic perspectives.
- Capacity Building: The collaboration builds capacity within academia to engage in inclusive research practices, particularly in the education sector.
Why It Matters
Too often, wellbeing frameworks are developed without input from the communities they aim to support. This research partnership demonstrates what’s possible when Autistic voices and lived experience guide the inquiry – ensuring future frameworks are more meaningful, ethical, and effective in supporting neurodivergent students.
Building Connection and Capability at The Beach School, Allambie
Overview
Since mid-2024, FutureTech has partnered with The Beach School to provide consultancy and lived experience-led support to enhance outcomes for their neurodivergent students. As a School for Special Purposes within the Department of Education, The Beach School was seeking meaningful, practical ways to support the wellbeing of their senior students and deepen staff understanding of neurodivergence.
Our Role
FutureTech has worked closely with both students and staff, offering a dual-layered approach that combines direct support with systemic insight:
- Workshops for Students: Delivered by neurodivergent mentors and consultants, our sessions focus on self-awareness, self-advocacy, and wellbeing strategies.
- Staff Consultancy: We provide practical guidance tailored to individual student needs, as well as broader advice on environmental supports and inclusive delivery approaches.
- Lived Experience Insight: Acting as a ‘translator’ between students and staff, our consultants bring a unique ability to bridge gaps in understanding and support more connected learning environments.
Impact
This partnership has grown organically, with school staff increasing their engagement with FutureTech over time. Feedback indicates:
- Greater Staff Insight: School staff report improved understanding of how to support neurodivergent wellbeing in everyday practice.
- Stronger Student Connection: FutureTech consultants have built trust, safety and connection with students, enabling meaningful conversations and reflections.
- Practical Benefits for Students: Students have learned tools and strategies that support their wellbeing.
Why It Matters
This collaboration reflects what’s possible when neurodivergent-led support is embedded within school settings. It’s not just about providing programs – it’s about creating the conditions for students to thrive and helping educators feel equipped to walk alongside them.
Celebrating and Deepening Inclusion at Beauty Point Public School
Overview
For the past three years, FutureTech has proudly partnered with Beauty Point Public School to deliver a full-day program as part of their annual Neurodiversity Day. These sessions aim to deepen understanding, build empathy, and support meaningful inclusion across the school community - from students to parents to educators.
Our Role
FutureTech brings its Professionals, Peers and Parents framework to life through:
- Peer Workshops (Students): Engaging sessions for mainstream classes that focus on helping neurotypical students understand neurodivergent peers, developing empathy and friendship skills in the process.
- Parent Workshops: Open to the entire parent community, these workshops build understanding of neurodivergence, offering practical strategies and fostering supportive connections between families.
- Teacher Training: Tailored to topics identified by staff - such as supporting meltdowns and shutdowns - these sessions provide practical, affirming strategies delivered through the lens of lived experience.
Impact
This collaboration has become a valued part of the school’s calendar, with significant impact reported across the community:
- Parent Empowerment & Connection: One parent shared, “The workshops created by FutureTech do more than just impart knowledge; they build strong community connections among parents who often feel isolated and unsupported. The lived experience that FutureTech brings to these workshops is what truly sets them apart.”
- Teacher Confidence: Staff now feel better equipped to support neurodivergent students, drawing on practical advice rooted in real-life experience.
- Student Inclusion: The peer workshops have helped build a culture of empathy and understanding among classmates, improving the social landscape for neurodivergent students.
Why It Matters
This partnership shows what’s possible when inclusion efforts are truly whole-school. By embedding lived experience into every level of engagement, FutureTech supports cultural change that lasts far beyond a single day. As the same parent noted, “Their ability to connect with participants on a personal level was invaluable. The sense of community and mutual understanding that emerged from these sessions has been a vital source of encouragement and strength for many of us.”
Lived Experience Leadership in the National Autism Strategy
Overview
In 2023, FutureTech founder and CEO Rebecca McCash was appointed to the National Autism Strategy Oversight Council’s Economic Inclusion Working Group. This appointment recognised the importance of lived experience leadership in shaping national systems and policies that impact Autistic people across Australia.
Our Role
Rebecca contributed her expertise as a neurodivergent educator, advocate, and social enterprise leader, helping shape strategic direction at a national level:
- Policy Influence: Reviewed and interpreted key research and emerging policy trends, translating them into meaningful, actionable recommendations.
- Focus on Economic Inclusion: Advocated for stronger pathways between education and employment, calling for system reform that genuinely supports Autistic people to thrive.
- Lived Experience Insight: Brought FutureTech’s on-the-ground experience to the table, grounding conversations in the realities faced by neurodivergent young people and families.
- Commitment to Co-Design: Promoted inclusive models that reflect the voices of Autistic people - not just in consultation, but in leadership.
Impact
Rebecca’s involvement in the development of the National Autism Strategy helped shift the conversation toward more inclusive, human-centred approaches to support:
- Stronger Representation: Ensured that the lived experience of neurodivergent people shaped national priorities and policy directions.
- Sector Leadership: Reinforced FutureTech’s role as a trusted and values-driven partner in systems change work.
- Community Empowerment: Created visibility and pride for neurodivergent leadership in spaces where it’s often underrepresented.
Why It Matters
This case study highlights FutureTech’s belief that meaningful change happens when lived experience is not only heard – but leads. Rebecca’s appointment demonstrates how inclusion at the highest levels can ripple into better policies, stronger communities, and brighter futures.
Shaping Research on Autistic Entrepreneurship
Overview
In 2024–2025, FutureTech CEO Rebecca McCash contributed to a research project led by La Trobe University exploring Autistic entrepreneurship in the Australian context. This project, culminating in a paper presented at the 2025 Neurodiversity at Work Research Workshop in Pittsburgh, PA, examined how Autistic people are creating new pathways to employment and leadership through entrepreneurship.
Our Role
Rebecca played a key role in ensuring that the research was inclusive, relevant, and grounded in lived experience by:
- Advising on Research Design: Providing detailed feedback on proposed methods and tools, including the development of interview questions and survey instruments.
- Reviewing Abstracts and Content: Ensuring that language, framing, and focus reflected Autistic perspectives and avoided deficit-based narratives.
- Contributing Lived Experience Insight: Drawing on personal experience and FutureTech’s community practice to highlight the realities and opportunities of Autistic entrepreneurship.
Impact
Rebecca’s involvement helped shape a more authentic and empowering research process:
- Inclusive Methodology: Research tools were adapted to ensure they were accessible, relevant, and respectful of Autistic ways of communicating and working.
- Improved Accuracy and Relevance: The lived experience perspective contributed to findings that more accurately reflect the entrepreneurial journeys of Autistic people.
- Sector Influence: The paper contributes to a growing evidence base that recognises the potential of Autistic leadership, innovation, and self-employment.
Why It Matters
This collaboration demonstrates the value of lived experience in shaping research that doesn’t just study Autistic people – but partners with them. By helping to design research tools and approaches, Rebecca ensured that Autistic voices were embedded from the outset, paving the way for more ethical, inclusive, and impactful research in the future.
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