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Title: | Complex approach to integration of people with disability into training and employment in Balvi town |
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Location: | Latvia |
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Name of organization: Balvu county Social Administration Contact information (address, phone, e-mail, and website) Raiņa street 52, BALVI, LV-4501, LATVIA Phone: (+371) 64521998 Email: socparvalde@balvi.lv Website: http://www.balvi.lv/balvi/i.php?p=109 Governmental |
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Description: | Inclusion of people with disabilities is among most important range of activities for Balvu county Social Administration. And it seen in a complex. Special attention to people with disabilities is being paid since 2003 when first project in this area was implemented. Within that project 50 families with children with disabilities had possibility for individual and group sessions, psychological support with consultations. As a result a programme for further psychological support was elaborated. |
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Innovativeness: Balvi is one of handful towns in Latvia having elaborated and approved a Society integration programme. Special attention in this programme is devoted to social inclusion of people with disabilities. Programme identifies problems and main directions in solving them |
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Effectiveness: Effective long term results can be achieved by focused implementation of complex activities, based on objective indicators. Those implementing the programme must be very interested in reaching the goals, as people with disabilities often tend to be very closed – it is not easy to gain their thrust by simply inviting them to participate in some project. Thrust is gained step-by-step, by patient work, proving itself with work. This has been achieved in Balvi. |
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Satisfaction: Interviews with target group people are conducted on a regular basis, to gain information about their needs and wishes in order to be able to adopt the programme, projects and gain new ideas for new projects. |
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Dissemination: One of the project participants, who is in wheelchair for many years and is staying at home, is now learning information operator skills at subsidised work place that has been created at his home. He has also become deeply interested in information technologies, has studied more deeply one of the website creation technologies and has created website of Balvu county Social Administration. |
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Exploitation: To ensure effective social inclusion of people with disabilities huge role is played by municipality and its social services. Exactly these institutions know better the needs of people with disabilities living in their territory and they can elaborate and implement complex programmes to solve problems in co-operation with other institutions and organisations. |
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Search criteria: Social inclusion, social rehabilitation, Balvi, Social Administration |