Incorpora Girona: social inclusion through labour inclusion

Spain

Fundació Plataforma Educativa, coordinating entity for the group Incorpora Girona

Dr. Ferran 4, 3r pis. 17190 Salt, Girona, Spain Phone: (+34) 972405454 Email: coordinacio@incorporagirona.cat www.incorporagirona.cat

NGO
Charity

Incorpora is a program by the social work department of “la Caixa”, a bank entity, whose aim is social inclusion for people with disability and at social exclusion risk through labour inclusion. This is a national level program which is carried out among all regions in Spain, through agreements with different social entities.
Incorpora offers a labour mediator service between beneficiaries of entities and the companies for its selection, employment and monitoring during all labour inclusion process.
These social entities serve both to guide beneficiaries for their labour inclusion, as an important and basic element to their social inclusion, and guide companies for the employment of people with disabilities and other groups of people at social exclusion risk.
Incorpora offers companies, candidates for their selection process and, in case of a contract; also offer monitoring for the person inserted in the company.

Incorpora promotes coordinated work and network between the social entities. This way, entities have the possibility to share job vacancies from other entities which they cannot satisfy. On the other hand, all entities work within a minimum common methodology and format, through Incorpora pattern processes. This guarantees a quality service to companies.

During 2007, organisation has answered to 1645 people needs, from which, 303 have been eventually included in labour market. On the other hand, 531 companies have been informed, from which 460 have been visited and 151 of them have included beneficiaries.
Incorpora is a program Incorpora by the Social Work department of “la Caixa”. The fact that “La Caixa” is an important bank entity in Spain assures the program sustainability through annual funding granted to the social entities who implement this program in Spain.

Between 2007 and the first semester 2008 there have been answered 55 satisfaction questionnaires about the services Incorpora offered to companies. 46 of these questionnaires have been answered positively, which represents 83.6% positive assessment.

Dissemination of the information about the program is carried out through market research by the entities labour inclusion technicians. There is also an important dissemination task to companies through the agreement which has been signed between “La Caixa” and Fundació Pimec, the social foundation of SME Small and medium enterprises in Catalonia.
Information and dissemination of Incorpora it’s also undertaken from commercial and financing offices of “La Caixa”.
The group from Girona, does also have a webpage: www.incorporagirona.cat

The establishment of Incorpora in Gerona region is perfectly consolidated, not only at a territorial level, but within a wide range of groups: people with physical disability, people with mental illness, youth with guardianship, or youth having been guardianshipped, women suffering from violence of having been victims of violence, people over 50, unemployed people, migrants, etc. Participation of different kind of entities allows working with different groups at social exclusion risk.

The task developed by entities as to the beneficiaries, in their training actions, can be describe as non formal and informal training, since they serve to the professional empowerment and, if it is necessary, the acquisition of work habits and social abilities to facilitate labour inclusion in the company.

social inclusion, labour inclusion, employment