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Benefits, Dole or Social Role
the value of early transition to employment
explored
Presenters
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Ms. Catherine Devine
Mr. Arthur Beechey
Mr. Des Henry
Ms. Rachel Stevens
Director of Services, WALK
CEO, Agoriad CYF, Wales
Project Coordinator, Walkways
Director, Empowerall,
Introduction
• Human Potential • Our Beliefs • Traditional Services -
Challenges us to maximize!
Disability & Careers?
How are we doing?
• What happens if I have no career aspirations,
expectations or path?
• How can we develop and support genuine career
paths?
• The Walkways PEER Model solution.
Career Choice Survey
Activity to assess the process of choosing a career for
each attendee at the workshop.
Don’t Waste my Potential
Challenge your Beliefs
Beliefs
• Beliefs are not necessarily what’s true or factual in the
real world.
• The power of each belief comes only from the
individual believer.
• That means you can believe whatever you want to
believe. As long as you believe it to be true, it will be
true in your life.
Beliefs
• Consequently, you will attract events, experiences and
people in your life to match your beliefs. For this
reason, it is crucial to adopt only the beliefs that serve
you and to let go of those beliefs that limit you.
• What are your beliefs about people with disabilities
working in the open labour market?
Beliefs
• While beliefs can be very empowering they can be
equally disempowering.
• Many times our beliefs are negative, or pessimistic
about a person, situation, even ourselves, and they limit
us and sabotage our results.
Beliefs
• Analyse your beliefs?
• Are they helping or hindering?
• Do they move you forward
or hold you back?
• Do your beliefs guide you to create a presence in
someone’s life, that increases or decreases their
independence?
Traditional Services
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Welfare Dependency
Service Dependency
Social Dependency
Human Rights Dependency
• Do people that come into services ever leave?
• What does progression & career development look
like for them?
What are your beliefs about people
who have a disability and careers?
Are we wasting human potential?
• An ESRI report says, people with disabilities in Ireland
are half as likely to be employed as the non-disabled
peers.
• 36% of people with a disability are employed compared
with 77% of other adults.
• Census 2011 shows that youth unemployment in
Ireland is running at 38% while we are in a crisis at 14%
in the general population.
Are we wasting human potential?
• The “Creating Policies That Work 2013” report states
that a young person with a disability is 40% more likely
not to be participating in employment, education or
training compared to their non-disabled peers.
• The School Leaver’s Survey report 2008 shows that
14% of young people left our schools without
completing the Leaving Certificate.
What is the cost to our society
• Eurostat said in February 2013 that youth
unemployment is costing Ireland 2% of GDP.
• What is the potential financial cost to the state of such
wasted Human Potential over time if such a large
cohort or people are not contributing economically?
• What is the social cost to society if such a large cohort
of people are excluded from economic activity, socially
isolated, lacking confidence, self-esteem, suffering
mental health difficulties and without hope?
What is the Solution?
• Why wait to intervene until people are so distanced
from the labour market that they are without hope?
• It costs much less to support a person who is closer to
the labour market to get and keep employment.
• Why wait until our young people have left education
before intervening?
• When is the right time to engage young people
with employment and career choices?
What is the Solution
Irish Reports including,
• Creating Policies That Work 2013
• The National Development Plan 2007-2013
• New Directions, from the HSE
look to offer flexible choices and new options for young
people. They focus on the need for alternative activities,
education, training and employment opportunities for
young people and how they might be created through
education and training programmes.
Walkways PEER Programme
Providing Equal Employment Routes
• An innovative early intervention model, to engage and
support progression towards economic activity
• Co-funded by the European Regional Development
Fund through the Ireland Wales Programme 2007-2013
(Interreg 4A)
• A person centered, collaborative approach which
supports the development of individual personal
progression plans and actions to achieve the individual’s
employment goals
Walkways PEER Programme
Beliefs
• Every person is able to do a job when and if the time is
right in their lives.
• A job means getting paid for doing work at the open
labour market rate, in the same way as other colleagues
and having equal employment rights
• The number of hours per day or week that a person
can actually work is different for everybody.
• Support to gain and maintain employment should be
for as long as a person needs. No more and no less.
Walkways PEER Programme
Innovation
Engage young people before they are distanced from the
labour market and in collaboration support the person to
• Clarify their goals
• Identify their challenges
• Develop a SMART progression plan
• Recruit & train PEER support (if required)
• Engage with education & training providers for suitable
programmes to help progress towards goals
• Engage with suitable employers for opportunities to help
progress towards goals.
Walkways PEER Programme
Innovation
• Support through all the steps of the employment “ladder”
• The goal is employment!
• Education, training & unpaid work experiences are steps on
the ladder and not outcomes!
• Support development of social roles
• Support development of natural supports
• Support capacity building
Walkways PEER Programme
Experience
Walkways PEER Programme
Walkways Programme Evaluation
Ms Rachel Stevens, Empower All
Conclusion
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Results of the “Career Choice Survey”
Summary of presentation key points
Questions & Answers
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