The model of establishing forums for cooperation and exchange of information provides new social integration tools for whole families affected by lack of work, including persons threatened with social exclusion. The tools motivate the beneficiaries to act, improve their self-confidence and lead them out of closed environments (unemployment enclaves). The model introduces an important change into the existing system: it supports the whole families rather than individuals and includes a comprehensive system of supporting the social integration of the beneficiaries using the local institutional potential (organisations, institutions, employers).
moreThe model is based on close cooperation of local partners – local government institutions, NGOs, entrepreneurs – on providing support to the unemployed in the labour market. The most important element of the solution is work in a social cooperative established by the beneficiaries themselves with the assistance of advisors and trainers. The aim of the initiative is to prepare the unemployed to return to the labour market thanks, inter alia, to their participation in workshops and vocational training courses.
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