TransitAction: Breaking Barriers & Supporting Young Adults in their Transition to Employment
The TransitAction Project provides, Young Adults with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (YAASD), their Job Coaches and other actors in their lives, new skills and innovative tools to support them overcome the challenges in transitioning from education to employment. The project has adopted, tested and provided training across a broad range of resources that are accessible on the TransitAction website.
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Work@ble: Digital Job Coaching Tools & Methods for People with Disabilities
Work@ble is a 2-year European project that brings together organisations working on job coaching to people with disabilities with different expertise, the creators of the FROG methodology and one expert on developing accessible IT solutions.
Work@ble tackles these the digital challenges faced by people with disabilities and the VET mentors/job coaches by developing an educative digital e-Scape Room accessible to people with disabilities. The e-Scape Room will serve to assess and train their job skills, and also to contribute to reduce the digital divide.
Work@ble outcomes
- The e-Scape Room to train and assess job skills tailor-made to people with learning needs and cognitive difficulties due to disabilities.
- Guidelines for job coaches and VET mentors in the use of the e-Scape Room
- Collection of job coaching resources and tools addressed to people with disabilities.
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Jump to Job! Increase Employment Among Young People with Disabilities
Jump to Job! is an Erasmus+ funded project coordinated by EPR in partnership with other six organisations including EPR members GTB (Belgium), Theotokos Foundation (Greece), URI (Slovenia) and Fundacion INTRAS (Spain) and the University of Leuven Limburg, (UCLL, Belgium) and LYK-Z (Norway). This project focuses on training peers and job coaches for young people with disabilities.
The main objective of this project is to increase employment among young people with disabilities (YPWD). The related four key aims are:
- YPWD are more self-confident and have a more proactive approach to job search.
- Job coaches and YPWD have a stronger, more fruitful relationship, supporting real job inclusion.
- Companies are able to adapt their environment and work process to create sustainable jobs for YPWD.
- Job coaches’ training is effective and takes into account the inputs and insights from the YPWD and is also co-produced with the YPWD and the peer mentors.
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IPAT: Integrative Parents’ Autism Training
IPAT aims to increase awareness about the role and the importance of the parental training in the global management of the needs of autistic people, to increase accessibility to effective training, to motivate parents to use a valid self -training approach at different stages of life, in order to advocate for the rights and social inclusion of autistic individuals and eliminating stigma.
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Right to Connect: Digital inclusion for persons with intellectual disabilities
Right to Connect is an ERASMUS+ project that aims to improve the digital literacy for people with intellectual disabilities by developing an e-learning platform co-designed with the users.
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VIRTUS: Upscaling Vocational Pathways
VIRTUS: Upscaling Vocational Pathways is a 2-years project which aims to battle unemployment for underrepresented populations, such as autistic individuals, by providing high quality certified skills and by preparing them for the labour market.
Funded by the Erasmus+ programme, VIRTUS will create an educational program that entails vocational training adjusted to the needs of autistic individuals through the integration of in vivo training seminars and Virtual Reality technology.
The Virtus Project foresees the creation of the following outputs:
- An innovative curriculum
- A training KIT for trainers
- Virtual Reality (VR) platform and scenarios
- Piloting Activities
- A VIRTUS certification scheme
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Autism Friendly Spaces: An Employability Twist
The main idea behind the project is to develop an individually adapted method to promote participation in the labour market for autistic individuals. The main objectives of the Autistic Friendly Spaces-Employment project are:
- Client Engagement
- Creating a social hub
- Professional Profiling and Training
- Participation and training of employers
- On/Off Job Support
- Creation of a policy report
- Raising awareness of the needs of autistic individuals
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Crosswarp: Apprenticeship and inclusion weaved together
The objective of Crosswarp is a process of apprenticeship and collaboration on the traditional art of weaving. The project includes the education and inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities, the creation and dissemination of educational and productive points in five European countries and an open to everyone, digital platform with educational material.
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INSIDE: Social Inclusion Through Sport
INSIDE project aims to provide people with intellectual disabilities with equal sport opportunities, to encourage them to engage in sport activities and to support professionals working with them in order to use sports as a social tool.
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Participation of the NET in the conference of the Federation of European Social Employers
The conference took place in Brussels on the 5th of July 2022 with the following topic: Addressing workforce needs and challenges in social services to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights and the forthcoming EU Care Strategy.
The NETWORK was represented by Dionysis Serras Psychologist, Head of the Research & Development Department of the organization “PLOES”, and head of the European Programs team of the NET.
The experience of the conference was impressive, regarding the perspective that an observer can develop once he/she discovers that they are part of both the problem and the solution at the same time.
Gregor Tomschizek, President of Social Employers opened the event, presenting the key results from the Social Employers survey on staff shortages in social services across Europe.
Subsequently, specific key findings from the soon to be published report on ‘’Current attractiveness’ challenges in the social services sector’’ were presented.
The second part focused on the upcoming European Care Strategy.
During the afternoon session, examples of how to deal with staff shortages in EU member states were presented.
The event concluded with the representatives of employers and social workers from 4 EU countries: Isabelle Le Nan, SCOP Initiatives Formation (FR), Juan Vela, President of Grupo Social Lares (ES), Johan Van Eeghem BBTK (BE), Sandra van den The Braak, Maaike Piet and Bert de Haas, FNV (NL), presenting their experiences and good practices in addressing the challenges of the workforce of the social services sector.
One can say that the conference highlighted, both the importance of investments in the sector and the adaptation of employee training to current needs as well as the essential role of social dialogue in addressing current and future challenges.
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