Job Coaching Training : Place, Train, Maintain for people with Intellectual Disabilities (ID)
Employment rate is very low (0,009%) among youth with ID in Turkey. In Europe, people with ID are unemployed on a long-term basis and their employment levels and economic activity fall quite below that of even people with other types of disabilities. In Poland, very few are employed and there is no framework for supported employment. In Greece, although there is a greater access of people with ID in education and training, the families face with the relatively limited social and financial support, and there is also very limited access to employment. Thus, job coaching in the concept of supported employment can be considered a well-suited access to improve the sustainability in their jobs and facilitate the integration between the employers and co-workers without disabilities in the job environment. In this context, job coaching training may contribute the facilitation of their success in jobs that the people with ID are placed in. Therefore, the aim of the project was to create the job coaching concept in Turkey, Poland and Greece, and train young university graduates as job coaching trainers.
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