In Lithuania, the priorities of social work are care and employment of the disabled. Empowerment and integration are not given the necessary attention however. Social workers and individual care workers do not have sufficient competences to enable intellectual skills acquired by the disabled for employment and survival in the labor market and to ensure their integration into the labor market. Disabled people also lack encouraging role models for empowerment and integration into the labor market. Opportunities to acquire new, modern competences that meet the needs of persons with disabilities at the national level are limited because there are no working models of good practical experience. The project was aimed at European social institutions working with people with mental disabilities in the countries of the union and getting to know the employment models of people with mental disabilities operating in those countries. With the help of the project, an important step was taken, changing the policy of social work with intellectually impaired persons in Lithuania, so that enabling intellectually impaired persons towork would become a priority in social work The main target group of the project: employees working with disable people
The Youth Day Center (JDC) is a budgetary social institution for people with intellectual disabilities, providing work employment, free time organization, non-formal education and care services. The year of its activity we count from 1996. We educate a person who is able to independently know the world around him as much as possible, communicate, realize himself and fully integrate into society. The institution conducts its activities in accordance with the saying - "Give a man a fish and he will be." full all day, teach him to fish and he'll be full for life." You can get to know us and our activities on social networks: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Jaunuoli%C5%B3-Dienos-Centras-323700284494685/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jaunuoliu_dienos_centras/ Tweeter https://twitter.com/JCentras YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvWItBGckubZrO4psyYoNMg Our community has a passion for continuous training, development and sharing of best practices. We all learn: service recipients, employees, family of service recipients, volunteers, associated partners. Currently, 70 service recipients (hereinafter - PG) visit the institution. They are young, 18-45 learners with intelectual disabilities, and 46 staff.