This document discusses improving employment opportunities for people with disabilities. It identifies three main obstacles: 1) negative perceptions from employers, 2) lack of external support for hiring disabled individuals, and 3) lack of internal support within companies. It then describes an institution called URIHO that provides vocational rehabilitation and employment services for disabled people. URIHO aims to train people with disabilities, create work opportunities, and establish itself as a recognized leader in employing disabled individuals in Croatia.

1. Work and people with special needs
Proposal for cooperation
mag.Zdenkica Stanec
Samobor, Croatia
2013 god.

2. How to improve the competitiveness of people with disabilities in
the labor market ?

3. Let us be aware of the obstacles to employment:
1.Negative perceptions - for example, the fear felt by employers that
disabled employees will create more work for their supervisors.
2. Lack of external hiring support - the fact that employers will find very few
resources on the outside that are available to help recruit the disabled. In
addition, job applicants who are disabled “are often reluctant to self-identify
as such, for fear that doing so will make bosses … less, rather than more,
willing to hire them,” the policy brief states.
3. Lack of internal hiring support - which the brief says is often a budgetary
problem arising from the fact that funds don’t exist for creating internal
expertise in “hiring, accommodating and training people with disabilities.”

4. Institution for Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment of Persons with Disabilities, part URIHO,
operating under the name of the 1996th year. The institution is the legal successor of the oldest sheltered
workshops in Croatia, which operated under the name "Ivančica" and was founded in 1946. in Zagreb
It should be noted that the URIHO first sheltered workshop in the Republic of Croatia with the ISO
standard. Certificate of Quality Management System ISO 9001:2008, obtained for activity "Development
and production of clothes and underwear" and "production of leather goods and footwear," and confirms
compliance URIHO with strict international standards of quality business organization. This certificate is
defined quality management system, the employer's responsibility, resource management, product
realization, measurement and analysis. For customers URIHO of new products and services, and for its
employees, the introduction of ISO standards means continuous improvement of quality, innovation,
flexibility and satisfaction.

5. URIHO partners :

6. Mission
Vision
Strategy
Mission URIHO the training and employment of persons with disabilities and other difficult -to-employ
people , and finding new opportunities for their employment , creating a pleasant addition and
stimulating work environment . This is achieved by employing people with disabilities by production units
, in accordance with their abilities and aptitudes , and rehabilitation as part of the eponymous services
provided through the program .
The aim is to build a recognized name URIHO and Electric products in every business and thus achieve
and maintain a rating of the most recognized institutions for the employment of people with disabilities in
the Republic of Croatia .
For the realization of the set goal it is necessary to the quality of our products and services provided to
meet the needs and desires of customers . It must therefore continue to invest in technological
equipment of our production units and related services . Should invest in education and training for their
employees and develop a system of motivation of all personnel and particularly people with disabilities .
Emphasis should be placed on vocational rehabilitation of persons with disabilities in order to develop
socialization skills and conservation work . In order to maintain constant high level of quality should be
improved tic introduced management system .

9. On Thursday, September 26, 2013, during the "Weeks of the Centre for e–learning“, the Croatian
Europortfolio Chapter was launched. Europortfolio Croatia is one of the first Europortfolio Chapters and it
shares Europortfolio's mission and objectives. The aim of Europortfolio Croatia is to synthesise ePortfolio
related work in Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia to create a virtual
meeting place for all ePortfolio practitioners, experts and interested parties from the region.

10. So open
up new
possibiliti
es

12. Badge Europe
Pledge your support for Badge Europe! Badge Europe is the new social and technology
movement to capture recognition for learning that happens anywhere. Badge Europe
supports Badge the World

13. 1 .What is the title of
initiative ?
2.What are your interests in Open Badges?
2.1.Design Open Badges
2.2.Deliver Open Badges
2.3.Exploit Open Badges
2.4.Develop Open Badges technologies
2.5.Research Open Badges

14. 3.What is the size of the Initiative?
3.1.N/A
3.2.<100
3.3.100 < 1,000
3.4.1,000 < 10,000
3.5.10,000 < 100,000
3.6.> 100,000

15. 4.What is the scope of the initiative?
4.1.Personal
4.2.Organisational
4.3.City-wide
4.4.Regional
4.4.National
4.5.International

16. 5.Describe your interests in Open badges and how you would like to contribute to / benefit from the
Badge Europe initiative?
5.1.What is the institution?
5.2.Place of the initiative?
5.3.Location name
5.4.City
5.5.Country

17. 6. In wich domain(s) do you intend to use Open Badges?
6.1. Education / lifelong learning
6.2.Kindergarten
6.3.Primary Education
6.4.Secondary Education
6.5.General Education
6.5.Vocational Education
6.6.Tertiary Education
6.7.Further Education
6.8.Higher Education
6.9.Teacher Training
6.10.Adult education

18. 6.11.Vocational Training
6.12.Corporate Training
6.13.Informal Learning
6.14.Special Needs
Education
6.15.Learning Technology
Provider
6.17.Research
6.18.Employment
6.19.Self-employment
6.20.Entrepreneurship
6.21.Social Inclusion

19. What are the priority areas for
funding?
1.Development of technology
2.Furnishing work units and related services
3.Employee Education
4.Construction of the New center

20. Thank you for your attention
Look forward to future
cooperation
More on the above issues to:
https://www.washington.edu/doit
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