Revealing The Hidden Resources – Supported Employment for Neets with Support Needs

In the week of February 24, we are officially launching our ESF+ project “Revealing The Hidden Resources”! This European initiative focuses on knowledge sharing and collaboration, with SWOM as an expert partner. Our role? We share our approach so that our methodology can be applied by our international partners in Finland and Lithuania.

With this project, we are not only putting our vision of comprehensive life guidance on the European map, but we are also gaining valuable experience for future European funding opportunities. A great step forward!

Aim

The project aims to address the unemployment problem of NEET youth (not in employment, education, training) aged 18-29 in Lithuania and Finland. By implementing the Dutch model of supported employment, implemented by the project’s expert partners SWOM (Netherlands), we focus on innovative methods, such as coaching and mentoring, to provide young people with the skills and confidence needed to integrate into the labour market.

Project objectives

• Reduce youth unemployment in Lithuania and Finland.
• Create favorable conditions for social inclusion.
• Successfully applying the SWOM model to supported employment.

The project is intended for:

For young people aged 18-29 who are not in employment, education or training and who:

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  has a physical and/or intellectual/psychosocial disability,

  
  
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  experiencing poverty,

  
  
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  have particularly low qualifications and/or skills,

  
  
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  released from prisons,

  
  
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  under probation supervision,

  
  
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  treated for addictions,

  
  
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  foreign citizens living in Lithuania and Finland and experiencing obstacles in finding employment,

  
  
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  experience other barriers to employment.

  
  

Project activities and results:

• The project will reach 200 NEET youth.
• 80 young people will receive individual mentoring services.
• 30 participants will successfully find employment.
• 10 specialists will learn to apply the SWOM methodology in Lithuania and Finland.

The coordinator of the project is ŽISPB from Lithuania and the partners are SWOM from the Netherlands and Valo-Valmennus ry and Humak from Finland.