The main objective of our project is the cooperation between vocational education and training and the world of work involving a variety of partners and exchanging experiences and practices. This project offers a practical knowledge how to manage mentally disadvantaged people in the job-centers. The aim of our project is to supply job-center staff with information helping them to communicate with their clients efficiently, avoiding stigmatization and although they will not be able to heal they can refer them to an expert if necessary. As clerks working in job-centers are not mental health professionals they do not have the knowledge to diagnose or to decide whether their clients are suffering from depression even so they usually have experience in working with unemployed people and are sensitive enough to evaluate and solve the problem.
The project will be implemented through the use of non-formal vocational education methods with discussions, workshops, working in groups, plenary meetings.
We would like to know the present situation and the existing needs. What happens to the people being under motivated or depressed in the job-centers? How are prepared the job-center workers to deal this problem? It is a wrong approach to find a job for a depressed person. The depressed but untreated person get new and new failures on the job market. The job-center workers get new and new failure too, which increase the chance of burnout. Our project may prevent this bad process, provide solutions and find innovative ways.
- meet and survey 60-80 job center workers in each countries to know how do they deal the mental problems, what are they expectations to handle the mental problems in a more sufficient way
- meet and survey 60-80 job seekers in each countries to know how do they deal the problems.
- compare the situation of the countries and suppose that they are countries handling this problem in a more sufficient way
- share they existing methods.
- publish a detailed survey for job-center workers.
- training program for the job centers,
- dissemination materials for the job centers,
- effective communication for the job center workers/clerks,
- monitoring and linking the depressed persons to the health system.
