Rationale

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The Coach is a product development project, where rehabilitation research and vocational training and coaching are being developed in four different geo-graphical areas aiming to enable the reintegration to the working life for the people with a distance to the labour market.

The project is a continuous process of three development themes:

1. The Developing Rehabilitation Research
The assessment of the clients’ needs for services and the assessment process of the ability to work. The development objectives are the assessment methods in the actual working environment and changing the rehabilitation research from a clinical assessment to an assessment which actively supports vocational rehabilitation and training.

2. The Training towards a Specific Jobs
An individually tailored vocational training consisting of partial diplomas. The development objectives are the forms of company co-operation, labour-intensive learning methods and the contents of non-diploma based special training.

3. The Job Coaches
in the above mentioned development actions. The development objectives are the job descriptions of the job coaches in the rehabilitation, as support persons in the training at the schools and in the companies and as guides towards the working life. In addition to this the job coach training will be developed further to be integrated as part of the Social Studies Degree and as an independent part of the vocational further education.

Objective

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The Objectives and the Processes

In the developing rehabilitation research the thematic co-operation will be done in co-operation with Kiipula Rehabilitation Centre, Silta-Valmennusyhdistys ry, Tuoterengas and Rii-himäki Employment Office. This theme group will develop a functional and extensive model for assessing ability to work and function. Each partner has an own, extensive network for de-velopment work. Part of the clients will be specifically chosen to the project and part of them is already clients of the partners.

The curricula for the training towards specific jobs and labour-intensive methods are being developed by Kiipula Vocational College and Kiipula Adult Education Centre together with Silta-Valmennusyhdistys ry. In the Kiipula Vocational College the model is developed in differ-ent sectors of training crossing the sector borders. Silta-Valmennus will develop the curricula for the jobs together with Tampere Vocational College. Kiipula Adult Education Centre to-gether with Riihimäki Employment Office will participate in planning and practical tuition of training aiming to jobs.

The labour-intensive methods and tuition and support services for adult students are devel-oped by Salpaus Further Education and Tuoterengas. Salpaus will emphasize in multiprofes-sional functions and increasing teachers’ knowledge in special education. Tuoterengas will test labour-intensive learning methods in the workshops.

For implementing the extensive rehabilitation research and training toward a specific jobs,
job coaches will be hired to Kiipula’s training units. The project will do research work on the use and financing of the job coaches. The job coaches will be participating in the implementa-tion of the rehabilitation research in the actual working environment and they will work as pi-lots between the different phases of the rehabilitation and will participate in the implementa-tion of the vocational training.

Silta-Valmennusyhdistys and Tuoterengas have already hired individual coaches and job coaches, who will participate in the mutual development work. Lahti Polytechnic / Faculty of Social and Health Care will develop the job coach training to be part of the Social Studies and as a product in further education.

Mutual Products

Mutual product development will produce theoretically grounded and practically tested prod-ucts. The end products will be:

1. The Model for Developing Rehabilitation
2. The Model for Training to a Specific Job and Description of the Labour-Intensive Methods
3. The Job Descriptions and Degree Programme

Innovation

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The holistic point of view is only just developing in the process of measuring the rehabilitation needs of the clients. The basis for this point of view is the human as a psycho-physical entity within his/hers own life. In the field of rehabilitation the assessment and development of the ability to work and function have remained separate.

The tailoring based on the curricula towards a specific jobs has not actually been tested in the modern practicies. The mutual experiments and models with labour-intensive methods and workshops, third sector (NGO's) and vocational (special) education have been minor.

The possible job descriptions for job coaches outside the supported employmnent haven't really been charted. This is however necessary to create a standard degree programme (polytechnic level). The need for multiprofessionaal teaching and curriculum for job coaches is clear.

The DP and its parties represent the kind of collaboration crossing sectoral borders which is necessary for the people with a long distance to the employment (structural employment).

Budget Action 2

2 000 000 – 5 000 000 €

Beneficiaries

Empowerment

 With beneficiaries

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In each of the project themes the main goal is to support client's self-steering and life control. Each actor will develop their actions together with their clients. As an assistance for implementing the principle of empowerment we will be using the empowerment indicator which was developed and tested as part of
the transnational co-operation in the Kiipula Adult Education Centre during the Worth the Work/Equal - project.

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The project actions will be organised through development circles between DP partners' staff. This way the steering will remain as near to the action as possible.

The empowering assessment's principle is based on the fact that the target groups will participate in the continious evaluation. The transnational actions will be planned and implemented together with the target groups and it will be based on the participation of the target groups.

 Between national partners

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Locally there will be learning and development projects where core actors are the permanent staff of the participating organisations and their learning is being supported by the projects resources. This way to project will be linked to the normal procedures of the participating organisations and will help to install the empowering methods

Transnationality

 Linguistic skills

• English
• Deutsch
• svenska
• français

 Percentage of the budget for transnational activities

• 15.0%

 Transnational Co-operation Partnerships

Background

 Involvment in previous EU programmes

• Two and more partners involved in A&E

National Partners

Agreement Summary

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The Coach is involved in two TCA's
1. Routest to Employment with Equal Employability (UKgb-161), (Re-)integracija i darbo rinka Kretingos rajone (LT-17), Equal greitkelis (LT-4) and Inovativni Prostopi Za Nove Moznosti (Sl-10)

2. Equip(ment) with Training Quality (BEnl-23) and Request (NL-2004/EQA/0015)

Kiipulasäätio / Kiipula Foundation

Kiipulan ammattiopisto / Kiipula Vocational Institute

Contact person(s)

Koulutuskeskus Salpaus / Salpaus Further Education

Contact person(s)

Lahden ammattikorkeakoulu / Lahti Polytechnic

Contact person(s)

Riihimäen työvoimatoimisto / Riihimäki Employment Office

Contact person(s)

Silta-Valmennusyhdistys ry

Contact person(s)

The Coach

National Partners

Kiipulasäätio / Kiipula Foundation