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The project starts from the risk of poverty for young people with autism and from their lack of integration on the labor market. The main causes underlying this reality are:
- poor inclusion conditions at the employer level - to prevent this situation, the project will collaborate with 10 companies to adopt inclusion policies and job accessibility strategies for people with autism;
- poor access to state facilities for inclusive companies, or discouraging facilities - the project will collect the needs and proposed solutions needed to cover them from company representatives, information that will be transmitted through an advocacy campaign to responsible institutions, local and central administrations, so as to support the interest of companies in making jobs accessible to people with autism;
- lack of partnerships between companies and non-profit organizations or specialists - the project aims to create an inclusion task force within the organization by training 3-5 specialists (organizational development component); they will advise companies to adopt inclusive policies and create job accessibility strategies for people with autism. In addition, inclusion specialists will design a training program for facilitators for assisted employment. 20 people will be trained as facilitators and the training program will continue after the completion of the project.
In parallel, 30 young people and adolescents with autism from the Help Home program (independent living skills program for young people with Autism Spectrum Disorder) will enter a professional training program for the development of work skills for jobs they prove interest or talent. At the end, a mini-internship in inclusive companies for 3-5 people with autism will be implemented.