08/15/2026
Something bigger is taking shape. 🤍🎉
When we started Do It Yum, we wanted to create a business where our son, Cole, and other neurodivergent individuals could have a real place in the workforce, not just a place to “participate,” but a place to learn, contribute, grow, lead, and belong.
That vision has grown into something much bigger. We are incredibly excited to announce WorkAbility Alliance, a new nonprofit workforce development initiative created to bridge the gap between learning and meaningful employment for neurodivergent adults and transition-age youth.
And we aren’t creating another classroom. We’re creating real work. Participants will gain hands-on experience in culinary and food service, retail, customer service, inventory, logistics, custodial operations, events, hospitality, administrative work, entrepreneurship, management, and all the little skills that make a workplace actually work. Because there is a huge difference between being taught how to work and being given the opportunity to put those skills into practice.
Our goal is to help participants discover what they’re good at, build confidence through real experience, develop skills employers value, and ultimately walk into an interview with something incredibly powerful: experience.
We’ll partner with schools, nonprofits, service providers, and local businesses to help create a pathway from training to employment. Because meaningful employment is about more than a paycheck. It creates purpose, confidence, relationships, independence, and belonging.
This is a big undertaking. And honestly, it’s a little terrifying. 😂 But what started as a dream for our family is becoming an opportunity we hope can change the trajectory of many families.
We’re building a place where neurodivergent individuals aren’t simply included in the workforce. They’re prepared for it. They’re valued in it. And they have a chance to thrive in it.
Welcome to WorkAbility Alliance. 🤍
We’re just getting started. WorkAbility Alliance Justin Palmer
