Adults with autism learning valuable skills for local jobs through unique partnership on Long Island

A unique partnership between a hotel-casino and a nonprofit that helps adults with autism is creating jobs.Bhasin has autism, so in the past, it had been difficult to find the right fit. That is, until now.

"The workers that they train at the Winters Center are the workers we need," said Phil Boyle, President and CEO of Suffolk Off Track Betting, which owns Jake's 58. "In the next couple of years, we are going to double the size of Jakes 58 Casino," said Boyle."So we will have a lot more jobs.""They're going to set the example for so many other people nationally, that look, this is a plan that works," said Patrick Winters, President of the Board, Winters Center for Autism.

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