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.
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.
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.
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.
Stories4ALL: Best practices, Training, Digital Skills
Stories4ALL aims to support the educational community to explore alternative learning pathways that focus on the development of creativity and digital skills, as well as the social inclusion of students with visual impairment (VI). The project focus on digital technologies/tools such as image design/editing, digital story creation tools, and 3D printing.
EASPD International Conference: Quality of Life & Support Services: From Words to Action, 13-14 October 2022
The conference will aim to inspire support services to implement modern quality measurement models focusing on improving the quality of life of the people they support. Hosted in St Paul’s Bay, Malta the conference will take place on 13th-14th October 2022.
Rationale of the conference
Measuring the quality of services for persons with disabilities is a challenging mission for most service providers. The challenges arise not only from the lack of a mutually agreed definition on what quality is but also on how it can be measured efficiently and how it can further help services improve!
Even if, in most of the countries, the assessment of quality in services is set out in legislation, they do not specify methodologies, indicators, and do not define quality. In certain countries the assessment of quality follows procedures, such as formal inspection visits, that often do not provide services with the necessary means to develop and improve. However, there seems to be a general interest, also on the EU level, to improve the quality of services and the quality assessment processes.
This conference is co-organised with Agenzija Sapport, an EASPD member and Malta’s National Agency that provides professional and innovative services to enhance the quality of life of persons with disabilities and their families.
The conference will aim to inspire support services to implement modern quality measurement models focusing on improving the quality of life of the people they support. It will further showcase how such models can help service providers move forward towards better quality, empowering and person-centred forms of support, aligned with the UN CRPD principles.
This conference will:
- provide participants with a good understanding on the situation across Europe on innovative quality measurement systems.
- discuss the challenges and opportunities that this process may bring for support services.
- will bring two experiences from Scotland and Malta on how different levels (macro – meso – micro) can work together to support service development and improvement.
- conclude with representatives from the EU, public authorities, services providers, and persons with disabilities identifying the next steps.
Highlight of the conference:
- Participants will have the opportunity to participate in training sessions focused on different elements related to the operation/ management of a service, on person-centred and family-centred planning, quality measurement models and co-production, among others.
Learn More: https://www.easpdconference.eu/