The delegate for Equality, Social Policies and Conciliation of the Junta in Granada, Manuel Montalvo, together with the president of the Down Syndrome Association Granadown, María del Pilar López, presented this Thursday the agreement signed between the two entities to carry out employment practices for people with intellectual disabilities who have Down Syndrome.
The objective of this agreement is to establish the conditions of collaboration necessary for the realization of said practices by the students who are part of the training and socio-labour insertion program that is carried out in the Granadown association.
During his speech, Manuel Montalvo clarified that the purpose of this program is to achieve the integration of people with intellectual disabilities in this area through their training for the performance of future work. This initiative is aimed at acquiring pre-employment skills through learning basic tasks for employment, developing the skills of these people and improving their personal and social skills.
"We want to help prepare young people with disabilities for their incorporation into active life, in the performance of different jobs, and based on their abilities and interests", the delegate clarified.
This is why, as Montalvo has assured, "it is of great interest to establish lines of cooperation that, through their respective resources, can improve the socio-labour capacity and professional qualification of the students that integrate the training and insertion program for employment of the Granadown Association, whose practices will be carried out in dependencies of the Territorial Delegation of Equality, Social Policies and Conciliation in the province of Granada".
The delegate has also highlighted that "experience shows the importance and necessity that both for people with disabilities and without it supposes to be able to acquire and demonstrate practical skills in preparation for the professional stage. Experiences of this type contribute to minimizing the difficulties that this group of people encounter in accessing the job market", he concluded.
For her part, María del Pilar López highlighted the commitment made by the Granada Equality Delegation so that people, in this case with Down Syndrome, have the best possible quality of life and are one more member of the society.
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"I want to materialize this gratitude to the delegate, to Manuel Montalvo, because since he arrived at this institution, despite the pandemic, he has always supported us and is aware of our future," he commented.
It was approximately twenty years ago, according to the president, when the association began to bet on carrying out a social and labor insertion program for people who had this condition in ordinary companies.
"We believe that inclusion is where they can develop better and this has been demonstrated by the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which defends that this is the route", he assured.
From Granadown and following this model, they work to find job profiles according to the abilities of the association's users and provide them with all the support and help they need. To do this, they carry out a methodology based on supported employment through which they explain to the rest of the colleagues in the company in which the person with this condition is going to work what their abilities are with the aim of not overprotecting or infantilizing them.
The total number of places for internships is six and they will be distributed among the Active Participation Centers of the province attached to the Delegation of Equality, Social Policies and Conciliation. The tasks that will be carried out will be aimed at gardening, administrative or ordinance work or those that the territorial delegation may demand and in all of them the participants must commit to carrying them out according to the guidelines and to comply with the established schedules.
For the correct development of the work, each student will have two types of tutors who will support the practices framed in the agreement. On the one hand there will be a supervisor of the center, service, department or practice area of the Delegation who will be in charge of giving information to the students and defining and monitoring their tasks. On the other hand, they will also have a job tutor responsible for the association's internship program who will coordinate, support and ensure the smooth running of the work to be carried out.
The internship period will be between October 1 and June 30 of the current year and will have a total minimum duration of 5 hours a day and its functions will never include tasks that replace those of employees public or interfere with your daily activity.