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The employment rate of young people with disability is half the current rate among individuals of the same age in Europe. This deplorable state of affair is not in our view resulting solely from the tense economic situation. In hindsight it appears that granting people with disability with a full-fledged access to education, training and employment has always been a problem for given member states of the European community. The European Union as well as member states have ratified the UN Convention of the right of persons with disabilities. This strong symbolic act is meant to convey the message that people with disability shall no longer be considered as an exception to the rule but rather as full-fledged citizens whose rights have to be promoted. This political act indicates that non-discrimination and promotion of fundamental rights are a common task. Politicians, economic actors, media and citizens alike are all responsible in this endeavor. Meanwhile the European Union and its member states are promoting through law and regulations that anyone from the northern to the southern part of the continent as well as from the western to the eastern part implement policies and strategies that aim at securing career paths. What is it all about? Access to employment is intricate especially for people with disability as redundancies, transitions between professional activities and unemployment, access to vocational training and returning to work can be hard to manage. Career paths have therefore to be secured. In order to do so, it requires to lay the ground for a realistic and above all lasting individual project, to identify the essential stages and to support the person. Securing career path, promoting supported employment, promoting the European Disability Empolyment week (EDEW), is the way we choose to sensibilise and act on/with entreprises and society. We want to act and measure. It is the reason why we promote in this program not only actions but the way to produce evaluation of what have been clearly done on the ground. EASPD, EMPLEA, SCUOLA VIVA and L’ADAPT are complementary organizations considering their competencies and skills. They are bound together through their DNA contained in their institutional projects. We claim our commitment to translate into proposals and actions the principles enshrined in the international convention of the right of persons with disabilities. The have been the promotors of DESC1. Our prposition is to go by DESC 2 a step beyond with those same organisations and their partners. With this project we establish a link between implementing the rights of young people with disability , the economical reality, the state of play of the labour market but also the necessary need of change in the way to move and act for the service providers. Our proposition is based on three axes First Axe : To experiment on the ground 150 career path and supported emplyoment. To create an evaluation method. To produce each years, results, analysis and success stories. To associate 40 partners to realise those career path. To work with 40 entreprises. As a matter of fact, 120 professionals from our national networks have been trained during DESC 1 to securing path careers and supported employment. We expect to train 40 more professionnals. Second axe : To associate partners who work in the field of health, culture, citizenship, housing, etc... This way we want to promote a global approach to secure career paths. We want to create a good practices guide to develop sustainablity and awardness in the paractices of those partners. We expect to train 40 of them to securing career path and supported employment. Third axe : To produce a method to support the sustenaible implementation of EDEW in the networks at a national level for the members of the consortium and their partners (funders, politics, entreprises , civil society, associations). We want to measure the efficiency and the quality of the networks we will contribute to create. We will promote sensibilisation actions about EDEW in each country wich is apart of this program. For each axe a delivrable. Each delivrable will propose an analysis method and a measure of the results This European initiative will synthesize our skills and good practices and will disseminate them. We will review the programme on a yearly basis in order to evaluate our action. International conferences will be held in order to share our experiences. We will make sure that they are fully accessible.
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