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- SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT- “A BRIDGE OR BARRIER TO
TRANSITION?”
Michael Barrett Cope Foundation
Cork Ireland
hosted by:
In association with:
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-SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT-“A BRIDGE OR BARRIER TO TRANSITION”?
• This workshop will provoke, challenge and change common approaches to contemporary supported employment practice, and will empower and enable each participant to “change the world for people with disabilities forever!”
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-SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT-“A BRIDGE OR BARRIER TO TRANSITION”?
• UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2006
• EU Disability Strategy 2010-2020• Member State National Disability Strategies• Member State National Supported Employment
Programmes• European Union of Supported Employment• National Associations/Unions of Supported
Employment3
-SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT-“A BRIDGE OR BARRIER TO TRANSITION”?
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• EU Life Long Learning Programme: Leonardo da Vinci Partnership Project.
• 14 organizations representing 10 EU member states: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Netherlands.
• Focus: “an examination of ‘Barriers which Inhibit the Transition from School to Employment for Persons with Disabilities”.
• Stakeholders: Students/Trainees with Disabilities, Teachers/Trainers/Job Coaches, Service Providers, Employers, Parents/Advocates (Personal Networks).
-SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT-“A BRIDGE OR BARRIER TO TRANSITION”?
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ATTITUDES & PERCEPTION A MAJOR BARRIER!
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Some examples of Bar riers
• “I have no self-confidence!”• “I have low self-esteem!”• “I am often teased at school!”• “I am often made fun of at work!”• “I am a son.. a daughter.. a student.. a
trainee…a client…a service user…a worker
• with an… Intellectual Disability!
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Some examples of Bar riers
• “He is better off in a sheltered workshop!”• “She is safer using special transport!”• “He is not able… or ready for work!”• “She will loose her social and health benefits!”• “I know what is best!”
• I am a… Parent!
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Some examples of Bar riers
• “I do not have sufficient skills or competencies around disability?”
• “I have too many students/clients to even consider work opportunities!”
• “There is a lack of resources for career guidance!”• “I have to choose the better students/trainees for
work experience…for Supported Employment!”
• I am a..TEACHER! a..TRAINER! a..JOB COACH!
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Some examples of Bar riers
• “I don’t have enough time for persons with disabilities!”
• “There are no suitable jobs for persons with disabilities!”
• I don’t have sufficient knowledge of Disability issues!”
• “There are no incentives to employ persons with disabilities!”
• “Integration does not always mean Inclusion!”
• I am an… EMPLOYER!
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Some examples of Bar riers
• “Workers with disabilities are always the 1st victims of recession…austerity measures!”
• “Cutbacks in funding for people with disabilities are a necessary evil!”
• “Systems are too bureaucratic… too rigid!”• “ There is no progress in terms of the Welfare Trap!”
• I am a… BUREAUCRAT…a CIVIL SERVANT…a POLITICIAN!
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Some examples of Bar riers
• “Who else uses this Language…Terminology?”• “Special needs…Special Transport…Special Schools…
Special Olympics…!”• Individual Training Plans…Person Centred Planning!• “Sheltered Employment…Supported Employment…
Open Employment!”• “Clients…Trainees…Service Users!”• “People with Disabilities!”
• I am the DISABILITY SECTOR!
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Attitudes & Perception remain the most common Barrier!
Barriers are common to all partner countries
The Disability Sector is the first… most relentless… most challenging Barrier!
The term “Supported Employment” puts the spotlight on ‘Support’ rather than ‘Employment’
Challenge/Opportunity for ‘SE’? “Let’s not present DISABILITY…as a BARRIER?
rather present BARRIERS… as DISABLING!”
“SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT” A BRIDGE OR BARRIER TO TRANSITION?
BITSE: BITSE: BRIDGES CAN BECOME BRIDGES CAN BECOME BARRIERS!BARRIERS!
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“SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT” A BRIDGE OR BARRIER TO TRANSITION?
BITSE: BITSE: BARRIERS CAN BECOME BRIDGES!BARRIERS CAN BECOME BRIDGES!
• We can change the world for people with ‘disabilities’ by changing how we think about
“SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT”
• By changing how we do “EMPLOYMENT!”
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Thanks for Listening!
Contact:Michael Barrett
EURO PROJECT CONSULTANT COPE Foundation
Cork, [email protected]
www.cope-foundation.ie
