We have 3 breakout sessions:
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1.1 |
Policy making |
Quality Guidance in Supported Employment within the Public Employment System (PES) in Norway | In this session we will share experiences with adapting Supported Employment in the Norwegian Public Employment System and discuss how to implement the SE-methodology in everyday practice. | Managers Team leaders | Ane Stø, Senior Advisor, Unni Andersen, team manager, Elisabeth Harder, Senior Advisor, Maria Nyhagen, Senior Advisor, Public Employment Service, Norway | Details | ||
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1.2a |
SE in a digital world |
How job coaches transitioned to a digital job coaching in times of pandemic | This presentation will provide data on the employment situation for people with learning difficulties during and after confinement. We will analyse what were the specific challenges we had to face, how we faced them and the outcomes we obtained. We will present the programs we have developed and which of these have remained after confinement and helped us improve our services. | Mixed | Laura Krauel, Psychologist, Responsible for the Job Placement Program for people with Intellectual Disabilities, Aura Foundation, Spain | Details | ||
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1.2b |
SE in a digital world |
The JOS-app, a digital Job crafting tool – a way to reduce challenges and barriers in the workplace | We will present the results of our research regarding the JOS-app, a digital application especially developed for and by people with disabilities. By using this app, we want to inspire employers, job coaches and counsellors to engage and support employees in crafting their jobs. | Mixed | Charlotte Claes, Researcher, Odisee co-University, Brussels, Belgium | Details | ||
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1.3 |
Policy making |
Pilot on SE for youth in North Macedonia 2019-2021 | This session will introduce a Supported Employment pilot-project in North Macedonia and discuss how Supported Employment is adapted to North Macedonian conditions. | Mixed | Christoph Schreiner, Head of European Projects WienWork, Austria, Waltraud Schober, Head of Youth Coaching, WienWork, Austria, Marina Tosheska, Local Action Group AGRO LIDER, North Macedonia | Details | ||
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1.4a |
Job development |
Assessment and prevention of job deterioration in elder workers with Intellectual Disability | In this session, we will discuss how to raise awareness about the effects of ageing on the employment of people with Intellectual Disabilities. We will present findings from international literature reviews. | Mixed | Francisco De Borja Jordan De Urries, Researcher/Professor Miguel Angel Verdugo, PhD. Researcher/Professor, INICO, University of Salamanca, Spain | Details | ||
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1.4b |
Job development |
Assessing Attitudes towards People with Disabilities in the Workplace | Present the study: “The Employability of People with Disabilities – A survey with employers” Identify barriers and facilitators to inclusive employment Discuss what are the attitudes behind employers’ reactions to people with disabilities Discuss possible strategies to approach companies to increase the probability of employers hiring people with disabilities | Employment Specialists Job coaches Counsellors | Lucia Canha, Post-doc Researcher Celeste Simoes, Associate Professor, University of Lisbon, Portugal | Details | ||
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1.5 |
Job development |
Developing SE for people with Intellectual Disabilities in Finland | Present an overview of the SE-situation for People with Intellectual Disability in Finland Present tools on how to support job coaches in their jobs and how to promote SE and job job coaching to disability services and employers Group conversations and good practice example | Mixed | Jenni Kujansivu, Project Coordinator, Service Foundation for People with an Intellectual Disability Simo Klem, Expert Employment, Finnish Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Finland | Details | ||
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1.6 |
Job development |
A Lean Approach to Customized Employment | Discuss how Lean principles can be used to maximise the value in customizing employment opportunities for individuals with significant disabilities An overview of the five key Lean principles Discuss how to develop employment proposals utilizing the Lean process | Mixed | Laura Owens, Professor/President, TransCen Inc./University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA | Details | ||
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1.7 |
Career development |
What about tomorrow? Personal Future Planning – the next steps of a personal career | This workshop will introduce you to the wide range of creative personal future planning tools that you can use in the process of career planning or developing a vocational profile. There will be demonstration of some tools and exchange of experiences between participants | Mixed | Stefan Doose, Professor for Integration and Inclusion, Potsdam University of Applied Science, Germany | Details | ||
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1.8a |
Career development |
Supported Education – how can school facilitate for work inclusion of youth with disabilities? | This presentation will discuss how the school’s structure in some cases exclude young people from inclusion in school and working life. The presenters will point out the importance of thinking early relations to working life where ordinary work and ordinary pay are the goals | Mixed | Annlaug Bragdø and May Helen Austad, Supervisors Agder County Council, Norway | Details | ||
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1.8b |
Career development |
SE for young people in disadvantaged situations | By this presentation we aim to share our learning around what works when supporting care experienced, unaccompanied minors and socially disadvantaged young people (e.g young people not in education, employment or training, immigrants, and refugees). Our project: The Give and Take scheme, a supported pre-employability programme helps disadvantaged young people to progress into and sustain their place within mainstream employment, education and training | Mixed | Deborah Burns and Dominic Mooney, Senior Youth Workers, Include Youth, UK | Details | ||
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2.1a |
Policy making |
Social Work in Transition – implementing SE in Danish Employment Services | Presentation of a study that follows 12 social workers in their transition from working within a traditional job function in Danish Municipal Job Centres toward working across job functions as job coaches in a SE-intervention targeting NEETs with mental health problems | Mixed | Inge Bonfils, Senior Associate Professor/PhD, Copenhagen University College, Denmark Others to be confirmed | Details | ||
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2.1b |
Policy making |
Implementation of Supported Employment in France: An Evaluative Study of 27 Services and the Skills of their Employment Specialists | Presentation of the implementation of SE in France, through the study of 27 services, spread over France | Mixed | Marie-Gaëlle Marec, Psychologist/Phd student and Bernard Pachoud, professor, University of Paris, France | Details | ||
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2.2a |
Policy making |
I want to be my boss | Demonstrate how to promote the entrepreneurment of people with Intellectual Disabilities through the project “La Inclusivadora” Support people to develop a personal project | Mixed | Marc Badia Muntane, Labour Inclusion Services Coordinator and Saül Sanz Piqué, Project Manager of Entrepreneurship, Catalan Foundation of Down Syndrome, Spain | Details | ||
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2.2b |
Job development Social enterprise Multidisability team Diversity management |
Supported employment as a diversity management tool in a social enterprise team with multiple disabilities | The objectives of the presentation relates to the extension of supported employment method as a tool providing the best solutions for managing the multidisability team that has to function in business environment. Especially useful are different actions developed at the 5th stage of EUSE supported employment: On and off job support and at the 4th stage know as employer engagement. As social enterprise by definition relies on work of persons with disability it means that the managers of such a businesses should take into considerations know-how of the methods designed for placing PwD into the job market. | Mixed | Marta Gawryluk and Dorota Składzień, the Eudajmonia Foundation, member organization of the Polish Union of Supported Employment, Rafal Dziurla, Psychologist, Job Coach, Polish Union of Supported Employment | Details | ||
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2.3 |
Policy making Diversity |
Now Is The Time – Social Return on Investment | Share, highlight and debate the Social Return om Investment an the Invest to Save case for supporting people with learning disabilities and autism into paid employment Present the Social Return on Investment evaluation of DFN Project SEARCH Present up-to-date calculations around the savings to different areas of the UK economy when people gain full-time paid employment Explore the investment required to provide strong “follow-along” support and debate the impact this can have on long-term employment outcomes | Mixed | Claire Cookson, Chief Executive Officer, DFN Project SEARCH, UK | Details | ||
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2.4 |
Job development |
Screw it! Let’s do it! How to deal with guidelines and criteria if you want to put people first? | Discussion on how to manage a caseload considering the IPS criteria: zero exclusion, intensive support and guidance, a maximum caseload of 20 participants Sharing experiences with audience interactively | Mixed | Katrien Vandersteene, and Frederik Verhaeghe, IPS-coaches, GTB, Belgium | Details | ||
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2.5 |
Job development Diversity |
The Apt Disability Employment Gap PSP: An Employer-Facing Approach to Achieving Sustainable Change | This workshop will increase awareness of how to work in partnership with employers to develop and deliver a range of innovative projects that address the knowledge and expertise gaps they have, to enable them to improve the employment prospects available to disabled people. Outcomes of the Workshop: Increased awareness of what a PSP Project is and why is it needed Enhanced understanding of some common myths v the actual benefits associated with employing disabled people Increased knowledge about how to inculcate positive change in employer processes and attitudes Understand how to embed delivery into a joined-up employability support service Increased awareness of how to involve people with lived experience now and in the future | Mixed | Briony Williamson, Operations Manager ENABLE Works David Cameron, CEO, The Scottish Union of Supported Employment (SUSE), Scotland | Details | ||
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2.6 |
Career development |
Training of schools to embed and deliver Supported Employment with students | Present how SE can be used with Special Educational Needs or Disabilities (SEND) students whilst still in education, raising employment aspirations from an early age Demonstrate our journey to designing and delivering a consultancy, training and mentoring package for all schools and colleges Discuss the value of supporting education providers to embed the SE model | Mixed | David Stenning, SE Manager and Alicia Moyles, Head of Service The Education People, Specialist Employment Service, UK | Details | ||
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2.7 |
Career development |
#anICFwonthurt – playful introduction to the ICF as a language to support the process of job coaching | A gameful introduction to: The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) How to collect work- and health related information in the framework of the ICF in order to clarify the strengths and goals of the client | Mixed | Pieter Vaes and Stien Hennaert, Job Coaches, GTB, Belgium | Details | ||
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