(not) Able-bodied professionals of ICT
- NGO
- Poland
- Access to employment and social inclusion
- Education and training
Issue: 1 The educational and professional qualifications of persons with disabilities nadequated to the needs of the labor market. 2 The low activity of social services and NGOs in solving of the problems of the disabled.
The registered education structure of unemployed on the Lower Silesia shows that among the people with disabilities , the largest group of people are these ones with thelower secondary education ( 38.4 %) and those with vocational education (33.4 % ), data : Diagnosis of the situation of disadvantaged people in the labor market , Pentor RI, Wroclaw 2010 , further diagnosis .
No profession shows 14.7% people with disabilities ( diagnosis ). The ccupations, they usually indicate, i.e. construction worker (8.8 %), seller (4.9 %), mechanic / electrician ( 8.8 %), locksmith / turner (7.8 %), employee restaurants ( 6.9 %), craftsmen (8, 8%), beautician / barber (4.9 %) are among the 30 jobs with the highest number of registered unemployed on the Lower Silesia (Rank of deficit and surplus in the Lower Silesian Voivodship in 2012, DWUP ) . People with disabilities have inadequate qualifications to the needs of the market.
According to the DWUP data, the list of shortage jobs on the labor market are, among others : the operator of computer networks, computer peripheral equipment operator, an operator of computer systems, computer applications, word processing . These are jobs that specific skills in IT are required.
The opportunity to remove personal barriers of people with disabilities are personal trainings, pursuing the individual needs to people with disabilities in the field of computing. For 42.4% of people with disabilities such training will help to get a new profession (source: Diagnosis ). These activities , due to the specific needs of people with disabilities, must be tailored to their needs ( eg, proper training rooms , a small group with experienced trainers ) .
Certified IT skills are seriously considered in the labor market , confirm to acquire the specific knowledge and skills . The computer skills acquired during these standardized quality training to the participants will help them to establish or improve the labor market position . For such are recognized training leading to get the certificate ECDL CORE.
The project involves the support for each participant in the form of:
- Meetings with a professional counselor (preparation of the Individual Action Plan)
- Disabled Persons Assistant services and transport services for participants
- the course on interpersonal communication, team working
- the organization of training courses - ECDL (www.ecdl.com), the participants are entitled to scholarship / grants
- the length of services with the employers organization –the internships in firms that could use the knowledge of those participants which they acquired during the ECDL training, the participants are entitled to scholarship / grants
- the employment for trainees: 20% of participants internships
- Support for employers in the field of knowledge about funding for jobs for disabled people
- Unemployed
- Persons with mental or physical disabilities
- NGOs