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Description
The project addresses the issues of the rights of persons with disabilities, especially those with hearing impairments, aiming to promote human rights and equal treatment, by combating discrimination, raising awareness among them and young people without hearing impairments on the rights of these persons and the ways of action to be respected, as well as by facilitating the integration on the labor market, the freedom of their own choices and the personal independence of young people with hearing impairments.
The objectives and activities are oriented in four directions:
- Conducting an awareness campaign addressed to young people without hearing impairments aimed at changing the attitude towards people with hearing impairments and demystifying stereotypes.
- Organizing an exchange of best practices with an Icelandic expert, as well as a course based on a guide to non-formal methods for people who play a role in educating young people with hearing impairments, to provide them support for social integration and facilitating access to the labor market.
- Improving the knowledge of young people with hearing impairments regarding their rights and developing personal skills to facilitate social integration and the labor market, through a training program consisting of three specific courses.
- Improvement of the services of the Applicant and National Association of the Deaf in Romania - Iasi Branch related to human rights and equal treatment, especially of the hearing impaired people, by increasing the efficiency of communication with the general public, by improving the working methods in interacting with these people and by training the volunteers.
Summary of project results
The project aimed to promote human rights and equal treatment, by combating the discrimination against people with hearing impairments, by raising awareness among them and young people without hearing impairments on the rights of these persons and the ways of action to be respected. All objectives have been met, and the proposed indicators have been successfully achieved.
The first activities implemented were the organization of the personal development and the first phase of the impact study which was carried out. 50 teachers and support staff working with young people with hearing impairments improved their knowledge, skills and competences to use non-formal learning methods to develop their personal and active citizenship skills through an innovative course, but also those to offer them support for social integration and for accessing the labor market, by organizing an exchange of best practices on this topic. A training program composed of 3 specific courses resulted in the improvement of the knowledge of 36 young people with hearing impairments regarding their own rights and the development of personal skills to facilitate their social integration and their success on the labor market. There were also organized 4 information seminars were attended 140 people within the activity aimed at awareness campaign. With regard to organizational development, updating the website and constantly publishing messages from the campaign has made communication with the general public more efficient. Also, members of the Applicant and P1 have perfected their working methods, by participating in the best practices internship in Cyprus, and the volunteers of the two organizations have been actively involved in the project activities.
In terms of results and effects, 84.90% of the target group has a favorable attitude regarding human rights and the rights of people with hearing impairments, according to the two studies conducted on 1000 young people without hearing impairments. One of the most important results of the awareness campaign addressed to young people without hearing impairments consist in the publication of 1026 posts on social networks with an impact on 124086 people.
Summary of bilateral results
The collaboration with the Icelandic partner, Step by Step, was very good. Although he could no longer participate with experts in the exchange of best practices, as originally scheduled, due to an error related to the ineligibility of issuing the invoice on partners, the partner nevertheless helped the Applicant and the Romanian partner find solutions, kept the advisory role and guided through the conceptualization, structuring and preparation of the exchange of good practices for teachers and support persons who work with young people with hearing impairments, keeping the quality and the initially planned results. It is planned the continuation of cooperation between the Icelandic partner and the Applicant.