12th Conference EUSE Lisbon 2015

1. “ Improving Diversity through
Supported Employment ”

2. Advantages of a
multiprofessional unit for
contributing to work capacity of
people with difficulties in getting
a new start
Miika Keijonen
Leena Kuusela
Annika Lipponen
hosted by:
In association with:

3. Keskuspuisto
Vocational College
Keskuspuisto
Vocational College
Mutual Pension Insurance
Companies
Mutual Pension Insurance
Companies
The social Insurance Institute of
Finland
The social Insurance Institute of
Finland
Communities & CitiesCommunities & Cities
The Office of Employment and
Economy
The Office of Employment and
Economy
Orton hospital &
rehab
Orton hospital &
rehab
Orton Pro
-multiprofessional
multifaceted
services
Orton Pro
-multiprofessional
multifaceted
services
INVALID FOUNDATION
ORTON
INVALID FOUNDATION
ORTON
Work life: companies,
corporations, third
sector, societies
Work life: companies,
corporations, third
sector, societies

4. Orton ProOrton Pro
Vocational rehab
for people at
work
Vocational rehab
for people at
work
”Springboard”
-service
”Springboard”
-service
Work ability
assessment
Work ability
assessment
Rehabilitative
work-
oriented
acitivities
Rehabilitative
work-
oriented
acitivities
Studio ProStudio Pro
Low threshold
groups
Low threshold
groups
Career coachingCareer coaching
Work- tryWork- try Job
coaching
Job
coaching
Vocational multi-
professional
rehab assessm.
Vocational multi-
professional
rehab assessm.

5. Main benefits:
- clients may, if needed, proceed through various
services in a unit like Orton Pro while the experts are
co-operating with many institutions who provide for
financial support for enhancing people’s work
capacity, and all kinds of work providers
- prospectively this kind of operational model will be
the most cost-effective both in human perspective
and economically

6. Main problems:
- economical stagnation: employers can’t or dare not easily hire
new workers; maybe only on salary support
- funding in public sector has been reduced at least partly, and
that’s why institutions which send less clients to Orton Pro
- there are quite many clients who actually are disabled but don’t
receive pension or compensation for disability; they are sent ex.g.
to Orton Pro in hope they after all could find a work place suitable
for them
- basically there are ways to enhance a client’s work capacity and
help her/him to find work but in many cases complicated
bureaucracy makes it difficult

7. Conclusion:
The benefits are already so obvious individually
and economically that this kind of organising
services will expand in various forms,
depending of conditions in individual country.
We’ll go on!

8. Thank you!