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Title: Supporting people with disabilities into employment


1
Supporting people with disabilities into
employment
  • Karen Lauwers
  • VLAB vzw
  • Flemish Federation of Sheltered Workplaces

2
Overview
  • Introduction to Belgium
  • Employment matters
  • Employment for people with disabilities
  • Sheltered workplaces in Flanders
  • Pilot project Supported Employment 

3
Introduction to Belgium
4
Introduction to Belgium
  • Federal state
  • 3 regions
  • Population 10 million people,
  • Active population (15-64) 7 million

5
Employment matters
  • Employment is a mixed matter
  • Federal authority
  • Unemployment benefits
  • Working conditions, contract matters
  • Concertation
  • Regional authority
  • Placing coaching of unemployed people
  • Vocational training

6
Employment for people with disabilities
  • 2006
  • Flemish Ministery of Welfare
  • Flemish Ministery of Social Economy
  • Flemish Minstery of Employment

7
Employment for people with disabilities
  • Acknowledgments disability work
  • Label for working in sheltered workplace
  • Label for support in finding job open labour
    market

8
Employment for people with disabilities
  • Different methods regulations
  • Sheltered workplace
  • Vocational training
  • Coaching towards job on open labour market
  • Wage subsidies
  • Jobcoaching
  • Forms of unpaid work

9
Sheltered workplaces in Flanders
  • 68 sheltered workplaces in Flanders
  • Employment 18500, 15000 people with
    disabilities
  • VLAB, Federation of Sheltered Workplaces
  • Defend the interests of sheltered workplaces
  • Develop exchange information knowledge on
    people with disabilities
  • Organise training

10
Sheltered workplaces in Flanders
  • Working methods
  • Employment in the sheltered workplace
  • Enclave model
  • Evolutions
  • Employment rate of people with disabilities
  • People with disabilities in the open labour market

11
Pilot project Supported Employment 
  • ESF-project (Dec 2005- March 2008)
  • with support of Flemish Gouvernment Labour
    Office
  • Promotor VLAB vzw
  • 7 sheltered workplaces

12
Basics
  • Paid employment
  • Empowerment
  • Individual placement model
  • Integrated worksite
  • Ongoing support

13
Organisation of Supported Employment
  • Organisation in the sheltered workplace
  • Mission statement
  • Supported Employment Coaches
  • Internal work group
  • Information selection of candidates
  • Candidates working in the sheltered workplace
  • Unemployed candidates with label sw

14
Process of Supported Employment
  • Intake
  • Assessment
  • Jobfinding
  • Jobpreparation
  • Introduction to the workfloor
  • Job placement
  • Coaching
  • Ongoing support

15
Results of the pilot project
  • 100 showed interest in the project
  • 50 intake
  • 25 started up the process
  • 12 actually working on the open labour market

16
Future of Supported Employment
  • Publication of book Supported Employment
  • Manual
  • Recommendations to gouvernment
  • (Probably) new ESF project call in October
  • (Probably) setting up new regulation
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