Type of Project: Funded project Model project
Further development, testing and evaluation of integrative work opportunities for people with disabilities, taking into account the opportunities and limitations of personal budgets

With this project, BAG UB aims to advance the further development of integrative vocational training and employment options for people with disabilities on the basis of efficient networking of regional provider and supply structures. The focus is on promoting the legally defined forms of transition from workshops for people with disabilities to integrative vocational training and employment, as well as on establishing and expanding viable networks of the support systems required for this. In particular, the de facto options for choosing between the outpatient and inpatient vocational training sectors are to be expanded and promoted, as they have been at only a few locations in Germany to date. The necessity of such a project is based on the initiated change of perspective in the planning and design of support services by the SGB IX. The tasks and roles in the rehabilitation process are being redefined through the strengthening of the users' right to choose and to make choices and the introduction of personal budgets. This development requires demand-oriented and complementary offer and service structures, whose coordination and contentwise organization are still to be accomplished. In co-operation with selected institution and measure carriers therefore model at two locations in the federal territory (Nuremberg/Erlangen, Hamburg), the support systems existing there are to be analyzed, conceptional bases for the contentwise and structural coordination of the achievements, including the necessary measures of the quality assurance (further) to be developed and converted into practice. The corresponding experiences of the institutions involved in the project and from other regions will be specifically taken up and conceptually and practically continued. Finally, the standards developed in the model regions will be available nationwide to all potential providers, service providers and people with disabilities for determining and checking services. Prompt further training and sustained public relations work will serve to disseminate the developed and tested concepts nationwide. The project is to be implemented within a total period of two and a half years. Objective of the project: The aim of the project is to analyze the support services available at the respective locations with the involvement of the relevant agents (above all people with disabilities, parents, workshops for people with disabilities, integration specialist services, education providers, integration projects and service providers) and, on this basis, to design and implement needs-based innovative participation services within the meaning of SGB IX. In the medium term, this is intended to ensure the necessary variation in outpatient service structures and thus the choice of people with disabilities, but also to put into practice the synergy of providers of job-related participation services required by law. Based on these objectives, the project staff of the BAG UB will work with the regional agents and with the professional involvement of the service providers and interest groups - analyze the structures and existing services in the respective regions and develop concepts for further development, - initiate the establishment and expansion of reliable cooperation agreements and relationships, - Develop quality criteria to ensure networked outpatient service structures, - develop approaches for the realization of personal budgets, - offer (supra-) regional information events and training courses, and - initiate a regular professional exchange between the various regional project partners, - didactically prepare the examples of "best practice", and -provide sustainable public relations work for the nationwide dissemination of the concepts. Target group of the project: Target group are humans with handicap, who fulfill the conditions for supporting offers for vocational and social participation in accordance with the regulations of the § 109 exp. 2 and 3 SGB IX, to which however in practice hardly choice possibilities are available. This applies above all to severely disabled school leavers from special schools for people with learning difficulties and rehabilitants in the vocational training area of the WfbM in the phase of concrete career planning, as well as to people with disabilities who are to participate in the general labor market after target-oriented preparation, but who are dependent on individual and intensive support for this. In the Nuremberg and Erlangen region, these are approximately 160 people per year; in Hamburg, approximately 170 people per year. The project aims to work with this target group in particular, as well as other groups of people with special support needs, and to expand and optimize their opportunities for self-determination and choice. The goal is to create a workplace that is covered by social insurance. Target group: The project is also aimed at management and staff from institutions and projects that offer or are planning supportive work opportunities. Together with them, networked outpatient service structures are to be evaluated and optimized with regard to needs and sensible networking structures. At each of the participating locations, several providers and their staff are involved as cooperation partners. In addition, the concepts developed are to be made available to other providers in Germany. Appropriate inquiries have already been received, for example from Hesse and Baden-Württemberg.