What are the Living Villages?
Portuguese villages enriched with local projects of training and employment for people with special needs.
Projects
Application process steps
Application process goes through the following steps:
- Contact made by the candidate with special needs or his family;
- Submission of the form available online;
- First candidate's evaluation with the support of a psychologist or a special education therapist – Identification of the qualifications and definition of the candidate’s functional profile;
- Evaluation of the potential employers for the candidates with special needs in accordance with their qualifications and functional profile;
- Development of the candidates' qualification and training programme, promotion of social skills, autonomy and vocational guidance;
- Implementation of the professional starting programme, comprising: i) co-workers training; ii) employer's tutor nomination and training; iii) candidate’s first professional activity monitoring;
- Monitoring (regular evaluation): i) weekly evaluation (between the 1st-3rd months); ii) 15-day evaluation (between the 3rd-6th month); iii) 3 month evaluation (between the 6-12th month9; iv) 12 month evaluation (balance and conclusions – end of monitoring).
From 16 years old.
Because in the end of the secondary education stage, a lot of these young people do not have a project for an independent life, it is our mission to provide guidance in this phase of transition to adult life.
How?
i) With a training programme aimed to develop professional, social and personal skills necessary to be happy at work and in life;
ii) Follow-up through a paid work seeking process of a suitable partner to the candidate’s competences;
iii) Mediation in labour context in order to achieve a win-win relationship to all the parties (candidate-employer-Association)