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Educators’ Centre Association, HU

Examples of good practice and mechanisms of integration ex’prisoners to labour market and social life. Educators’ Centre Association, HU. BEST PRACTICES. Why is there need for help in reintegration?

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Educators’ Centre Association, HU

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  1. Examples of good practice and mechanisms of integration ex’prisoners to labour market and social life Educators’ Centre Association, HU GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  2. BEST PRACTICES • Why is there need for help in reintegration? • HU Law: prison is meant to be serving reintegration, as a penal institution! -> it doesn’t (always) work, OR not enough • Humanitarian reasons: they need help • Several organisations and projects in Hungary deal with reintegration of ex-prisoners: they differ in type, size, function, budget etc. GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  3. BEST PRACTICES • Types of organisations: • State administration: Ministry of Justice – Department of Crime Prevention, authorities (labour centres), penal institutions (prisons) • NGO’s: foundations, associations • „Church” organisations (missions) • Educational institutions (vocational, adult training) • Social welfare „companies” GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  4. BEST PRACTICES • Function: • Education • Supportive care • Provide info on job opportunities….. Etc. • Funding: • State subsidy • EU Structural Funds • Donations GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  5. BEST PRACTICES Some examples: • 6 organisations • 9 projects GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  6. BEST PRACTICES Types of examples: • Taking action in the society: forming attitude, information • Training and vocation • Employment: sheltered workplaces, special model projects GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  7. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION PROFILE: • „Váltósáv” - Private foundation NGO • assistance of prisoners, released offenders and those with a criminal record in their reintegration in the society and the labour market • primarily deal with young people (16-35) • continuous (after)care and the operation of a civil helping system GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  8. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION STAFF: • 6 workers • Qualification: secondary school teacher, social worker, social teacher, expert in social politics, public educator, qualified narcology assistant. HISTORY: • Started as a private school – 2 students were sentenced to prison – developed a training/care programme GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  9. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION ACTIVITIES 1.: • Assisting in the preparation for the secondary school leaving exam, improving the chances of re-integration • Organizing, operating and maintaining a special, personality-based learning -teaching programme for first-offenders and young people with a criminal lifestyle • Recognizing, realizing and reinforcing individual abilities GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  10. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION ACTIVITIES 2.: • Psycho-social treatment of personal problems; mental-hygienic care • Lifestyle assistance • Organizing, operating and maintaining special helping-problem solving groups supporting the re-integration in the society • Crime prevention; organizing and managing informative discussions on prevention GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  11. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION ACTIVITIES 3.: • Operating a civil support system • Providing continuous after-care • Preventing the process of prison socialization • Involving ex-offenders in caring work - as far as possible - and supporting their training in helping work • Family care GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  12. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION ACTIVITIES 4.: • Organizing professional meetings, coordinating methodology exchange • Methodological and research work concerning deviance and its possible treatments, with special respect to criminal lifestyle • Organizing spare time and community activities GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  13. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION SELECTED PROJECTS: • „Youth work” in the penal institutions • „I will learn to learn” and „Create with me!”- Preparation for release for young people in penal institutions • „Changing Programme” - employment of ex-criminal youth and support reintegration in the labour market GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  14. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION 1. „YOUTH WORK” project - Summary • Aim: to create and increase the possibilities and chances of reintegration to the society and the labour market of ex-prisoners and/or deviant/criminal young people • Method: operating a continuous (after)care model and a civil helping system • Based on the synergy of supportive and educative elements, such as psychosocial care and the aimed delivery of the target group to the training institutions and the labour market GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  15. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION 1. „YOUTH WORK” project – Indicators • target group: young prisoners aged 15-29 • no. of clients: 60, out of which 30 finished the training course • Financed by: TÁMOP-5.2.5-08/1-2008-0209 child and youth integration (co-financed by EU Structural Funds) • Budget: 19.270.680 HUF GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  16. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION 1. „YOUTH WORK” project - Method • Individual and group competence development: • teaching-training-care-resocialisation forming one system • differentiated education • Course: 15 people/group x 4 hrs. x 20 occasions • Learning programme (concrete plans: making a living, education, housing, job seeking) • Supportive care– in the penal institution and after release GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  17. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION 1. „YOUTH WORK” project - Content • Competence groups; course elements: • determining existing skills, • development of mental skills („thinking”), • development of cogninitve skills, • identifying and recognising personal core values, • strengthening emotional factors that enhance the learning process, • „how to learn” methodology • how the labour market works GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  18. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION 2. „I will learn to learn!” and „Create with me!” projects - Summary • Aim: the preparation for release of young people (student-age) in penal institutions • Why? 2 facts: • it is very hard to organise normal school education for student-age prisoners in the penal institution -> the prisoners don’t know how to learn, they don’t understand the books… • The only things that girls are interested in is crafts and creative work (based on research) GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  19. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION 2. „I will learn to learn!” and „Create with me!” projects - Indicators • Target group: „learn” – boys, „create” – girls • no. of clients: 15 • Duration: 4 months • Financed by: KAB-PR-08-A - complex prevention programmes of organisations dealing with drug abuse prevention and drug users (co-financed by EU Structural Funds) • Budget: 800.000 HUF GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  20. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION 2. „I will learn to learn!” and „Create with me!” projects - Method • „classes”: 2 hrs./class × 1 class/week × 13 weeks • art/creative group classes for girls • Learning methodology group classes for boys GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  21. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION 2. „I will learn to learn!” project - Content • 3 phases: theory, practice, application • Competences: • Improvement of thinking, problem solving, deductive and inductive reasoning, analytical and critical thinking etc. • Information gathering, communication • identifying personal core values, strengthening emotional factors that enhance the learning process GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  22. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION 2. „Create with me!” project - Content • Girls work together in a creative group (like in former village communities) • Possibility to make contact, to share problems, ideas, to talk • Creative work = psychosocial effect • Pastime = pleasure GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  23. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION 3. „CHANGING PROGRAME” project - Summary • Aim: to create and increase the possibilities and chances of reintegration to the society and the labour market of ex-prisoners and/or deviant/criminal young people • Method: operating a continuous (after)care model with several elements, and a civil helping system • Based on the synergy of supportive and educative elements, such as psychosocial care and the aimed delivery of the target group to the training institutions and the labour market GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  24. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION 3. „CHANGING PROGRAME” project – indicators • Target group: ex-prisoners and/or deviant/criminal young people • no. of clients: • Involved in consultation: 210 • Entered vocational training: 28 • Got employed: 12 • Financed by: National Development Plan Humane Resource Operative Programme HEFOP 2.3.2. (co-financed by EU Structural Funds) • Budget: 39.225.000 HUF • Duration: 18 months GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  25. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION 3. „CHANGING PROGRAME” project – elements • During and after prison: supportive care, consultations, competence programmes, job seeking training, language courses, „Family Group” • During prison: „Focusing on Freedom” – special training preparing for life after release • After release: „Job Coaching” GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  26. 1. CHANGE LANES FOUNDATION 3. „JOB COACHING” ELEMENT – Method • employinga „coach” who follows the career development of the ex-prisoners • They talk the topic over – the coach gives an analysis and evaluation • Supportive care • Mediation between employee and employer GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  27. 2. TOLNA COUNTY LABOUR CENTRE PROFILE & ACTIVITIES: • County labour centre (state administration) • used to be 19 county, now 7 regional, work under Hungarian Public Employment Service • Dealing with all issues of employment: • Labour market analyses, migration, training guidance, vocational orientation, statistics etc. GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  28. 2. TOLNA COUNTY LABOUR CENTRE SELECTED PROJECT: „Give your future a chance!” a project supporting prisoners and ex-prisoners under Probation Service in social reintegration GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  29. 2. TOLNA COUNTY LABOUR CENTRE Project - Summary • 10 prisoners and 10 convicts under probation will undertake a training to acquire a nationally accepted vocation (ECDL*), plus other courses, self-knowledge groups * European Computer Driving Licence GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  30. 2. TOLNA COUNTY LABOUR CENTRE Project - Indicators • target group: prisoners and ex-prisoners under probation, especially of roma ethnicity • no. of clients: 20 • budget: 4.981.200 HUF • financing body: National Crime Prevention Board (NCPB), Ministry of Justice and Law Enforcement GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  31. 2. TOLNA COUNTY LABOUR CENTRE Project - Method • Matching the goals of the National Crime Prevention Strategy: to prevent repeated crime • Groups attend resocialisation and personality development courses conducted by psychologists • Vocational training (ECDL) GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  32. 2. TOLNA COUNTY LABOUR CENTRE Project - Content • Determining suitability (based on California Personality Inventory Test) – interviews • Psychologists make a list of applicants and start work • Large „classes” don’t work, they are too big - small groups of 4-5 are OK: gradual development of mutual trust, honest atmosphere GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  33. 2. TOLNA COUNTY LABOUR CENTRE Project - Content • Training on „How the labour market works” by experts – various forms of training • ECDL course – in the prison • Job seeking advice: behaviuor development based on the methods of Nathan Azrin (USA) • How to use the phone, write a CV, take a job interview GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  34. 3. THE REGIONAL TRAINING CENTRE OFKECSKEMÉT PROFILE & ACTIVITIES : • adult training centre and official examination centre of the region Central Hungary • founded in 1993 by the Ministry of Labour and the municipality of Kecskemét city GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  35. 3. THE REGIONAL TRAINING CENTRE OFKECSKEMÉT Park Gardener Project - Summary • Title: „Park gardener training in Állampuszta Penal Institution” • Vocational training and qualification (nationally accepted) • Aimed to assist the reintegration of former prisoners to the community • Taking place in the penal institution GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  36. 3. THE REGIONAL TRAINING CENTRE OFKECSKEMÉT Park Gardener Project - Indicators • target group: prisoners and under probation • no. of clients: 18 • Duration: 2005. 10. 03 - 2006. 04. 28. • budget: 3.402.000 HUF • financing body: National Crime Prevention Board (NCPB), Ministry of Justice and Law Enforcement GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  37. 3. THE REGIONAL TRAINING CENTRE OFKECSKEMÉT Park Gardener Project - Method • The target group is mostly roma and/or coming from Eastern Hungary, where high rates of unemployment and crime prevail • A nationally recognised qualification increases their chances to have a job when released • Additional course: personality development, job seeking techniques GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  38. 3. THE REGIONAL TRAINING CENTRE OFKECSKEMÉT Park Gardener Project - Content • Selection of participants (health status) • Signing of contracts for the training • Personality development training (90 hours) • Park gardener training (500 hours) GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  39. 3. THE REGIONAL TRAINING CENTRE OFKECSKEMÉT Park Gardener Project - Personality development training • Group building • Self-knowledge • Personal SWOT analysis • Labour market training • Criteria of successful vocation and employment • Personal long term activity plan GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  40. 3. THE REGIONAL TRAINING CENTRE OFKECSKEMÉT Park Gardener Project - Park gardener training • Basics of gardening • Economy • Environment and safety at work • Technical skills • European studies • Practical work • Examination GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  41. 4. „TOOLBOOK” Project Team PROFILE: Project team with different organisationsconsisting of: • Sopronkőhidai Penal Institution • FKFSZ – Employment Service of Budapest • Menedék - the Hungarian Association for Migrants • The Regional Training Centre ofBékéscsaba GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  42. 4. „TOOLBOOK” Project Team SELECTED PROJECT: • „TOOLBOOK” - Handbook for employers who are willing to accept ex-prisoners • Handbook - project product downloadable from: http://equal.nfu.hu/download.php?docID=104 GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  43. 4. „TOOLBOOK” Project Team GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  44. 4. „TOOLBOOK” Project Team Project - Indicators • target group: employers and future employers of workers with changed abilities and special needs, e.g. ex-prisoners • no. of clients: national level (the book is free) • budget: ? • financing body: EQUAL Hungary – EU Structural Funds + Hungarian Government GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  45. 4. „TOOLBOOK” Project Team Project - Method The project product is a 100-page handbook for employers, containing definitions, tips, examples of best practice, training outlines, case studies, legal and practical advice for the establishment and development of anti-discriminative workplaces for special employees: women, members of large families, older employees, immigrants and asylum seekers, employees starting their career, ex-prisoners, employees with different ethnicity, religious or sexual orientation, handicap. GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  46. 4. „TOOLBOOK” Project Team Project - Content The chapter dealing with ex-prisoners lists some „myths and stereotypes” concerning the employment of ex-prisoners and the facts related to these issues, e.g. how the employer can receive state subsidies when employing ex-prisoners. GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  47. 5. RETEXTIL FOUNDATION PROFILE & ACTIVITIES: • Private foundation NGO • Retextil Foundation’s aim is to promote an original know-how of recycling domestic and industrial second-hand textiles. • Using a traditional, manual textile technique, the common human ability of creativeness can be developed and at same time textile waste be reduced. • To create Retextil products – bags, puffs, swings – there is no need for any other sources except human energy and it also enhances the cooperation of groups and individuals. GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  48. 5. RETEXTIL FOUNDATION Retextil Project - Summary • Retextil is a method to manufacture domestic items (bags, clothes, rags, lampshades, sculptures, swings etc.) from textile waste • 100% manual work – community rehabilitation • 100% recycled – environmentally friendly • Unique ecodesign – artistic value GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  49. 5. RETEXTIL FOUNDATION Retextil Project - Indicators • Workshop: in Pécs • No. of workers: 24 (at present) • Handicapped, underprivileged, special needs workers „Retextil is a language where we can learn about the organic order in the world around us.” GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

  50. 5. RETEXTIL FOUNDATION GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnerships Project „The development of ex-prisoners´ integration into the labour market“ (DEPILM)

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