Café employing adults with intellectual challenges opens location in Dieppe, N.B.
For the owners of Café Inclusio, a café created as a way to provide job opportunities to adults with intellectual and developmental challenges, opening their first location was a dream years in the making.
Boudreau and Arsenault’s son Joël Arsenault lives with a form of autism that makes communicating with others difficult, while Perron’s son Samuel Dégarie lives with Down Syndrome. “We know that there are a lot of businesses out there that do great to support employment, we just wanted to add to that, knowing that we have sons that are going to be difficult to employ.” she said.
When the pandemic shut down most of those events, they pivoted to a wholesale model, delivering coffee to people’s homes.
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