Type of Project: Funded project Model project
Implementation of Inclusion Competence at the Chamber of Skilled Crafts Frankfurt (Oder) - East Brandenburg Region (IvIK)

Objectives and main tasks: The project aims to achieve the sustainable inclusion of severely disabled people in vocational training and, in the medium term, in the labor market. For companies, the project aims to tap into a previously largely untapped potential of applicants to fill jobs and training positions. This is to be achieved primarily by raising awareness among craft enterprises of the vocational skills and employability of severely disabled people. At the same time, severely disabled young people are to be supported in striving for and successfully completing vocational training, if possible. A key objective of the project is to create a regional, continuous and transparent advisory service for severely disabled people and companies in Frankfurt (Oder) that involves all the relevant agents (specialist integration services, employment agency, job center, chambers, schools, etc.) and links their service offerings in a meaningful way. Through the qualification and deployment of an inclusion counseling specialist, the chamber's own counseling competence in the field of vocational inclusion is to be increased, so that possible reservations on the part of employers can be reduced and they can be accompanied intensively and solution-oriented in the vocational training or hiring of severely disabled people. In addition, the counseling center will prepare severely disabled young people for in-company vocational training, provide targeted individual support in the search for apprenticeships, and arrange in-company training positions. In order to increase the chances of severely disabled young people to receive in-company vocational training, this project starts at school. It complements the previous activities of the schools in the area of vocational orientation, for example the nationwide 'Vocational Orientation Program' (BOP) or 'ZEBRA-plus' to promote the transition from the special school to the general labor market. First, the project is presented to the special schools in the East Brandenburg region and agreements on cooperation are concluded. Intensive work with parents (10 parent information events are planned) rounds off this offer. Intensive and target group-specific (barrier-free) public relations work, training courses and events accompanying the project are intended to reduce prejudices, particularly among companies, against the vocational training and employment of severely disabled people.