Leena Kuusela & Miika Keijonen & Annika Lipponen

“ Improving Diversity through

Supported Employment ”

Advantages of a multiprofessional unit for

contributing to work capacity of people with

difficulties in getting a new startMiika Keijonen

Leena KuuselaAnnika Lipponen

hosted by:

In association with:

Keskuspuisto Vocational College

Keskuspuisto Vocational College

Mutual Pension Insurance Companies

Mutual Pension Insurance Companies

The social Insurance Institute of Finland

The social Insurance Institute of Finland

Communities & CitiesCommunities & Cities

The Office of Employment and Economy

The Office of Employment and Economy

Orton hospital & rehab

Orton hospital & rehab

Orton Pro-multiprofessional

multifaceted services

Orton Pro-multiprofessional

multifaceted services

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INVALID FOUNDATION ORTON

Work life: companies, corporations, third

sector, societies

Work life: companies, corporations, third

sector, societies

Orton ProOrton Pro

Vocational rehab for people at

work

Vocational rehab for people at

work

”Springboard” -service

”Springboard” -service

Work ability assessmentWork ability assessment

Rehabilitative work-

oriented acitivities

Rehabilitative work-

oriented acitivities

Studio ProStudio Pro

Low threshold groups

Low threshold groups

Career coachingCareer coaching

Work- tryWork- try Job coaching

Job coaching

Vocational multi-professional

rehab assessm.

Vocational multi-professional

rehab assessm.

Main benefits:

- clients may, if needed, proceed through various services in a unit like Orton Pro while the experts are co-operating with many institutions who provide for financial support for enhancing people’s work capacity, and all kinds of work providers

- prospectively this kind of operational model will be the most cost-effective both in human perspective and economically

Main problems:

- economical stagnation: employers can’t or dare not easily hire new workers; maybe only on salary support

- funding in public sector has been reduced at least partly, and that’s why institutions which send less clients to Orton Pro

- there are quite many clients who actually are disabled but don’t receive pension or compensation for disability; they are sent ex.g. to Orton Pro in hope they after all could find a work place suitable for them

- basically there are ways to enhance a client’s work capacity and help her/him to find work but in many cases complicated bureaucracy makes it difficult

Conclusion:

The benefits are already so obvious individually and economically that this kind of organising services will expand in various forms, depending of conditions in individual country.

We’ll go on!

Thank you!