Integration of young people with handicap into the primary job market an occupational therapy perspe

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Integration of young people with handicap into
the primary job market an occupational therapy
perspective

• Dreihann-Holenia, Ehrlich, Ta

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How did we come up with our project?

• How do individuals get equal within their
  opportunities?
• independence and autonomy
• How do the goals of OT - independence and
  autonomy - help individuals get equal
  opportunities?
• by helping them to find a place in society, e.g.
  finding a job
• To whom are equal opportunities of an importance?
• to all individual with a handicap
• Where do we find the most effective approach to
  interfere?
• the adolescence

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This brought us to our question

• How does the integration of young people with
  handicap into the primary job market looks like
  and is there an assignment in Occupational
  Therapy?

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Facts to the recent situation in Austria

• 1 940 young people took part in an integrative
  professional training during the year of 2005
• 9 of them were diagnosed with a handicap
• FSW is the co-ordinator and promoter of
  special work areas creation of independence and
  autonomy

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Definition The Fond of Social Affairs in Vienna
(FSW)

• Its an organisation that currently operates
  eight health care and social senses in different
  regions of Vienna, dealing with all persons in
  need such as people with handicaps, old people
  and on the whole people who need social support

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Methods

• Research on literature
• Statistics Research
• Qualitative interviews

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Process for a handicapped adolescent to become a
skilled worker

• pupils with special educational promotion need,
  negative graduation marks or other difficulties
  in finding a job and getting professional
  training
• they go to the FSW
• FSW places them in an apprenticeship training
  program
• These apprenticeship training programs carry out
  the Clearing Process
• Allocation to the apprenticeship training
  position depending on ressources and abilities
• Start of the apprenticeship

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Definition Clearing process

• Is currently performed by social workers
• first contact with the adolescent
• performing a strength/weakness analysis
• pointing out the apprenticeship perspectives and
  clarifying a possible training need
• defining the occupational orientation

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Definition Clearing process

• networking with different institutions
  eventually creating the mechanism of a support
  circle with relatives, friends and professional
  advisors gt pin down the abilities of the young
  person as well as the appropriate framework
• establishing a development plan with short,
  middle and long-term perspectives
• Ending with a handover and a closing meeting to
  the further apprenticeship training program

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Results and discussion

• trick and pivot element the Clearing process
• two steps 1. completion of the individual
  steps within clearing2. formulating of the
  goals
• steps are similar to the concept of the
  occupational therapy rules gt assessment
• This is exactly the point were we meet our
• professional counterparts with whom we can
• maximise our collaboration in the light of these
• findings.

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Results an Discussion

• What are the opportunities that an occupational
  therapist can offer?
• Holistic approach on the adolescent through
  its various models e.g.
• OPM (A)

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Opportunies of OTs

• Focus on working capacity AND Occupational
  performance concerning job organisation
• Bottom up Assessment of the available resources
  and abilities of the adolescent
• Top down comparing the favored performance role
  with the needed resources and abilities
• diagnosed findings can serve as future
  guidelines
• great importance the response of the adolescent

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OT Clearing goals

• professional orientation and training
• stabilisation and personality development
• gt key position in the integration of

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Conclusion/Request

• the establishment of an institutional network
  ofinstructorsOTssocial workersparents job
  market service (AMS) social services department
  (BASB) enterprisesother organisations
• dealing with projects and making arrangements
  concerning handicapped persons

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Proposal

• a closer co-operation with students of OT as
  well as students of social work in the form of a
  work experience or a project during the course of
  the studies!

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Thank you very much

• Dreihann-Holenia Caroline Ehrlich Christine
• Ta Julie