TurningPoint

István Dandé

South-Transdanubian Regional Resource CentreMember of the Hungarian Anti Poverty Network

10/10/06 – Open Days

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Overview

Regional Resource Centre - Pécs „best practice” TurningPoint Conclusions

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South-Transdanubian Regional Resource Centre

1996: to provide professional assistance in a changed and permanently changing economic, financial and social environment

Social policy plans Labour market projects Advice for social inclusion NGOs Professional trainings Regional Management Unit of the Social

Ministry

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Best Practice in partnership

Motto:A genius! For thirty-seven years I've practised fourteen hours a day and now they call me a genius!

Pablo Sarasate Spanish violinist

Creating a well-functioning partnership between players of different sectors could take years…

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TurningPoint Programme

alternative, partnership based labour market programme

2000: I’ve got a job again - National Employment Public Foundation

2005: TurningPoint – European Social Fund

15.000 clients, 5.000 jobs, 2.2 MEur

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TurningPoint Programme

Target group – currently 430 people: Long-term unemployed people Low-skilled people

Targets: 35% of them keep their new job for more

than 4 months

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TurningPoint Programme What requires partnership? Background on employment & social policy:

No strong co-operation between family care centres and job centres, but there are overlaps among the target groups

The Social Act obliges these family care centres to help specially the long-term unemployed people, but they usually don’t have enough human resources and tools to do that

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Creating partnership The programme tries to fill this institutional

gap: 2 social workers has an office in two family care

centres The Programme has an office weekly in the Job

Centre There is an Employment Information Point at the

Resource Centre managed together with the Job Centre

We have 14 other partners: NGOs, social institutions, training centres, local governments, etc.

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Conclusions

TurningPoint partnership: 5 years Very good feedback from social

workers of the family centres: this service makes their service more efficient

Strength or threat?: initiatives to integrate job centres and social services in the Lisbon Action Plan…

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Thank you for your attention!

István Dandécivil@ddrfk.hu