Janna Santos

Disability Support Worker

Supported Employment consists of a set of services and actions focused on the person, fundamentally individualized so that the person with disabilities and with special difficulties can access, maintain and promote themselves in an ordinary company in the open labor market, with the support professionals and other types of support.

The Employment with Support facilitates the process of labor insertion with the following actions:

• Dissemination of the program in a broad sense (Public Guidance Network, general population, educational institutions, companies, social services, social agents, etc.) in order to publicize Employment with Support and facilitate access for people with disabilities.

• Prospecting of workplaces through the dissemination of the program to the business world.

• Individual attention throughout the process, starting from a personal work plan that is based on the prey of decisions by the person with disabilities.

• Guidance and counseling and/or personal advice for speech therapy children to the person with a disability and, if applicable, his family.

• Technical and legal advice to the different agents of the employer, in matters related to types of contracts, aids to hiring and other administrative aspects, as well as support in relational aspects towards the person with a disability.

• Accompaniment and training in the same job, as well as in other natural situations considered in the personal work plan.

• Advice on adaptations of the workplace and ergonomic aids.

• A search of natural supports of the labor and social environment, for the achievement and maintenance of the objectives of insertion.