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- description
Job placement process for the disabled.
People targeted
The mentally retarded and and/or mentally ill assessed under current regulationsJob placement process
a) The education systemb) Occupational centres (CO)
c) Training and low performance contracts (FBR)
d) Special Employment centres (CEE)
e) Work enclaves
f) Employment with back-up in the ordinary environment
g) Ordinary Employment
a) Education system
Those people who the education system considers will not able to obtain the Secondary School Leavers Certificate may go to the Task Learning Classroom (TLC) where they will be able to acquire social skills and useful abilities for everyday life that will enable them to face up to a new stage as adults and to have a first contact with their possible options in the world of work.
b) Occupational centres (CO)
Service (programme) that makes use of work as a resource or a main source
of therapy to improve the psychosomatic adjustment of the disabled and
ensure that they adapt as much as they can to the social environment that
they live in. These types of services also aim to place their users in
jobs in special employment centres or in open employment.
The services provided are as follows:
- Transport from centre-home - Food
at the centre - Suitable social atmosphere -
Programmes to maintain or promote a degree of clear autonomy and sociability
in the workplace.
c) Training and low performance contracts (FBR)
This consists of a variety of programmes that work on social and working aspects of the mentally handicapped in order to integrate them fully into the workplace. It supplements funding by the National Employment Institute (INEM).
d) Special employment centres CEE)
Their main aim is to enable the disabled to carry out productive work, by regularly taking part in market operations and their purpose is to ensure them a paid job, at the same time as they provide them with a means of integrating into the open work system (ordinary-normalised).
e) Work Enclaves
This consists of a contract between a company from the ordinary labour market (collaborative company) and a special employment centre in order to carry out projects or services that are directly connected with the company's usual activities. To do this, a group of disabled workers from the special employment centre goes temporarily to the collaborative company's workplace.
f) Employment with back-up in the ordinary environment
This is a kind of work that, through help from a specialised professional (job assistant,) assists the disabled in their needs for continuous support in the workplace, so that they can choose, get and keep a paid job in integrated workplaces.
In the following links the complete job placement process for the disabled and the one for the mentally ill are shown.