Specifics in transition of students with mental disabilities to world of work in participating countries-PL

1. Specyfics in transition of
students with mental
disability to world of work.
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2. Employment of students with mental
disabilities
Mild mental disabilities -
like students in mainstream
school :
-no special support
(career orientation)
-special vocational school
Moderate and severe mental
disabilities

3. Mild mental disabilities
Occupations available for students with mild mental
disability:
-car mechanic
-shop assistent
-cook
-confectioner
-hairdresser
-gardener
-hotel staff
-………..

4. Special job-training schools are three-year schools, with
the option of extension up to the age 24. A graduate from
a special job training school receives a school-completion
and job-training certificate. No further schooling is
anticipated after completion of such a school.
The learning in such schools should prepare the student
to carry out the activity of working within the sheltered
(supported) employment (sheltered workshops,
occupational workshops, occupational therapy
workshops)
Moderate and severe mental disabilities

5. There they can attend - artistic, motor skills, and
integration workshops. The goal of the workshop therapy
is to maximise motor, intellectual and physical skills. The
day room, first of all is an alternative to staying locked at
home and is a chance of contact with other people and a
chance of being active.
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Common Therapeutic Room Facility.
Mentally disabled people who are waiting to be
placed in occupational therapy workshops and who
want to acquire the skills which are essential for taking
up the job, can attend the common therapeutic room
facility.

6. Occupational therapy workshops (WTZ)
These institutions are meant for the disabled who
cannot start any form of employment, i.e. people
with high - and in the case of people with intellectual
disability and mental disorders - with medium degree of
disability. Workshops conduct all forms of
rehabilitation, focusing mainly on social and
vocational rehabilitation striving to achieve the
highest possible physical, psychological, social and
vocational improvement which leads to achieving
more independence.

7. The work becomes the goal in itself, a value but
not a purpose to gain security or economic
stability.
Many workshops, however, try to find
employment for those participants who have
successfully finished their process of workshop
rehabilitation and are able to take up work.
Workshops provide vocational
rehabilitation at the level of career advice
and vocational training.

8. The aim of the CIS is the social and vocational
reintegration.
CIS is an institution that has an educational character,
and one of the elements of education may be the
work of participants within the business, service or
manufacturing.
Between the CIS and the participants of CIS there is
no employment relationship. The participants of CIS
have the status of unemployed, and receive
„integration benefit” from the CIS of unemployment
benefits.
Social Integration Centre

9. Employment
Employment in the
open labor market
Employment on
special terms

10. Standard manufacturing
facilities.
Supported
employment.
Selfrunning business
Employment in the open labor
market

11. A disabled person can be employed in standard
manufacturing, service, agriculture facilities and
civil service facilities just as any other fully
capable worker.
This is called employment on competitive terms.
Only privileges that disabled person has are only
those which are connected with general rules of
employment.
These are: shorter time of work, longer leaves,
working only at the day and adjustment of
workspace.
Standard manufacturing facilities.

12. In this type of employment a disabled person, especially one with
high level of disability, is employed on personalized terms with
additional person dispatched to help him or her.
Assistant or instructor assigned to a disabled person helps him or
her to adjust to his or her job. Assistant shows him/her how the
facility works and provide him or her with knowledge about the job.
This help is due to the moment of gaining full working ability on job
by a disabled person.
Wage of an assistant is refunded by a County Labor Office.
Supporters of this form of employment point out that its cost is
relatively low and it is beneficial in terms of social integration.
Supported employment.

13. Running own business is a chance to work mainly for
those people who live in areas with high
unemployment rate or small towns where finding a
job is difficult.
Selfrunning business
including agricultural business.
This type of employment requires a fulfilment of
some conditions which a disabled person has to
implement in running the business. First of all they
have to possess the minimum knowledge and skills
needed in business. Marketing, management, book-
keeping, taxes, etc. Knowledge of the field in which
the business will operate is also crucial.

14. Sheltered workplaces
(ZPCh)
Occupational workshops
(ZAZ-Department of
Professional Activity)
Outwork
A remote work
Employment on special terms
Social Integration Clubs
The Social Cooperative

15. Sheltered workplaces (ZPCh)
They are created on the basis of a contract that the
state makes with employers who commit themselves
to fulfil certain obligations and criteria.
In return, employers receive a set of tax exemptions
and subsidies from the state fund. The employer must
maintain between 30 and 40 per cent of employees
with disabilities, depending on their degree of
disability.
The sheltered workplace must be adapted to the
needs of people with disabilities; have available
emergency and professional medical care, and offer
guidance and rehabilitation.

16. The goal of the ZAZ is to prepare disabled people to
integration with society and help them in conducting
(as it is possible and adequate to their abilities) active
and independent life.
Their main purpose is to offer employment to people
with significant disabilities to prepare them for life in
an open environment, through social and vocational
rehabilitation and support for a complete,
independent and active life.
Vocational workshops
(ZAZ-Department of Professional Activity)

17. Occupational workshops can be established by
districts or communes, or by NGOs whose statutory
purpose is the social and vocational rehabilitation of
people with disabilities.
They must attain the required disabled employee
ratio, with the proportion of employees with a
significant degree of disability in relation to other
employees depending on the activity of the
enterprise.
Occupational workshops
(ZAZ-Department of Professional Activity)

18. Outwork
This is a typical form of employment, is
performed on the basis of a civil contract
which has a similar character to the contract
work.
It has the base in making the goods by the
contractor, or performing various
services on provision but with the
materials provided by the employer.

19. A remote work is a work with using the infrastructure
of telecommunications technology. It is made outside
the office, for instance at home, at the hotel at the
airport.
A remote work known as "an office at home" is also
the form of the company organisation which provides
the work outside the place of the enterprise
buildings also when contacting with supervisors and
co-workers . Devices which are used - computers,
phones, telefaxes, videphones etc.
A remote work

20. Social Integration Clubs
They work in the field of social employment. They are
carried out activities with a therapeutic and
employment-related purposes.
Implement temporary employment programs are
intended to help those the most vulnerable to social
exclusion in finding a job. This may be a job for a
definite period or while performing work in full or part
time. Clubs conduct legal counseling, support errands
living, including housing.

21. The Social Cooperative
It is a specific form of work co-operatives. The main
objective of the cooperative is to provide jobs for its
members. Social cooperatives come under the same
laws as the company, however, they are also
privileged.
They learn the difficult art of economics and
responsibility for their own company. The object of
the social cooperative is to carry out a joint venture
based on the personal work of members.