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  IT training for people with disabilities

  Since 2007, CRS - jointly with three training institutions in Viet Nam - has been offering IT courses to people with disabilities. Businesses and employers have been involved in the curriculum design, in providing internships and in recruitment (which is vital for the training outcomes). Nearly 70 per cent of the participants find employment.
  CRS - Catholic Relief Services, Information Technology Training Programme (ITTP), Vietnam

• Integrated employment model

  SPAGAT is a model for the integration of persons with severe disabilities into the employment world. SPAGAT provides support for, accompanies and finds work for such persons in the primary labour market. Companies pay for the actual work; the difference in productivity is subsidised by the provincial government, as are the mentors’ costs.
  ifS - Institute for Social Services Vorarlberg, Integrated employment model, Austria

• Dialogue in the Dark

  Dialogue in the Dark is an experience in total darkness where visitors to the exhibitions, led by blind guides, experience a series of ordinary situations without eyesight. Between 1988 and 2012 over 7 million people have experienced Dialogue in the Dark worldwide, and over 7,000 blind candidates have found employment through it.
  Dialogue Social Enterprise GmbH, Dialogue in the Dark, Germany

• A new approach to labour inclusion

  To increase social inclusion POETA ("Partnership in Opportunities for Employment through Technology in the Americas") operates accessible centers to train people with disabilities in technology and vocational skills. In 2012, more than 1,500 allied companies also participated in awareness campaigns and activities.
  Trust for the Americas, A new approach to labour inclusion, Guatemala

• Individual placement and support

  Individual Placement and Support (IPS) addresses the problem that the majority of mental health service clients do not receive help with finding paid work. The programme embeds employment specialists in clinical treatment teams so that clinical treatment and employment support are integrated and occur in parallel.
  UK Department of Work and Pensions, Office for Disability Issues, Individual placement and support, United Kingdom