The project goal was to help the employees from FØNIX gain increased practical skills in their respective fields of work and contributevto develop better career guidance tools for young job seekers/drop-outs. This in the spesific field of Supported Employment and Individual Placement and Support with our methods councelors and their leaders. In the field of Entrepreneurship, the importance of international knowledge is very important to our further development of the program we provide for our jobseekers and course attendees. Our Autism team needed inspiration for their work with young people in the Autism spectre entering education and work. Finally, two of our leaders from adapted workplaces needed new knowledge and inspiration and established a great connection with a similar company/municipality in Germany.
Fønix is one of the largest companies within the vocational rehabilitation market in Norway with 180 employees. Our service includes approximately 2.000 learners/jobseekers and approximately 300 migrants / language learners. In addition to this more than 1.400 low skilled employees improved their formal competence and basic skills through different learning programs. Individual Placement and Support and Supported Employment is benchmark methodology, Services provided for the vocationally disabled: •Assessment of the potential work and educational capacity of the individual and qualification of the individual through career guidance, adapted job training and/or qualification. •To provide permanent adapted work. Fønix also provide “Work Preparatory Training” for people who need to establish basic job skills, lifelong career guidance, language training and work-related integration for migrants. Fønix is a pre-qualified provider of basic skills training (Competence +) by Skills Norway and involved in over 60 ongoing Competence + projects. We are an active member of European Basic Skills Network (EBSN) and EPR (European Platform of Rehabilitation). We offer adapted workplaces for 125 people with various developmental disabilities.