Green legged chickens

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Green legged chickens

• What we are all here for is that there is
  discrimination, which causes people to be
  disadvantaged in relation to access to employment
  and in the actual workplace.
• Our main target is people living with HIV.

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• PARTNERS
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Poland
• Spain
• UK

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Why are we GLCs?
Chickens, once on the verge of extinction, with a
little nurturing and support will be able to
prove itself hardy and productive.
Polish partner, among other activities, aims to
revive the traditional breed of GREEN LEGGED
CHICKENS

• So too with people living with HIV. Once thought
  lost to the workplace, with support and guidance,
  can turn to fruitful and productive employment.

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FinlandJoinUs (Messiin)

• work against multireasonal marginalisation
• Through service integration they seek to
  readdress
• Services provided for the retired.
• Sexual equality especially discrimination against
  transgender orientation.
• Partners
• AIDS Council, A-Clinic foundation, Sexual
  Equality and Palmenia.
• http//www.helsinki.fi/palmenia/helsinki/
• http//www.aidscouncil.fi

• Activities include
• Employer/employee issues
• Health support
• Job clubs
• Peer support

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FranceMaladies Chroniques et Evolutives
Pluridisciplinarite et Maintien Dans L'emploi

• Objectives
• Look at work environment
• - Issues of absenteeism
• - Quality of work
• Individual
• - Address fear of job loss
• - Address pathology issues i.e. irritability,
  tiredness e.t.c
• Representation of illness to co-workers
• Website
• http//www.aides.org

• Target group
• people with chronic progressive pathologies.
• Partners
• Has 7 development partners.

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Germany - Link UP

• Training
• Bielefeld - Qualify as pet carers
• Dresden - ICT training
• last 4 in Berlin
• ve Aktion - helps asylum seekers
• Kursive .V - handles employer work
• DAH job tours - information campaign with
  employer centres.
• DAH coordination - coordinates all these
  projects.
• Website
• http//www.schwulenberatungberlin.de
• http//www.aidshilfe.de

• Objectives
• Integrate disadvantaged into labour market.
• Improve employability
• Facilitate the reconciliation of family and
  professional life.
• Partners
• Deutsche AIDS - Hilfe,
• 8 operative partners in 6 cities, 7 of them
  regional. Partners include by region

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PolandEcochance

• Objectives
• Empower former drug users and PLWHA to enter
  employment
• Develop ecological projects at the centres as
  tools for vocational training and practice
• Counteract discrimination faced by former drug
  users or people living with HIV
• Work out a model of vocational training and
  practice for patients on therapy,
• Develop cooperation with local farmers,
  administration and institutions on ecological
  grounds therapy centres becoming ecological
  information points

• Target group
• People addicted to psychotropic substances on
  treatment at rehabilitation centres
• People living with HIV
• Partners
• Treatment and rehabilitation centres in the
  country

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Spain Agrupación de Desarrollo Empleases

• Objectives 'Learn by working'
• create employment for disadvantaged
• empower have better knowledge of target groups
• seek to re-dress low participation by women.
• Activities
• Training towards employment
• Training involving a process of social insertion.
  
• Involvement in small enterprises (these could be
  standard enterprises or our own market research)
• Website
• http//www.forempleoext.com

• Target
• Disabled including mental
• Partners
• Day centre in Merida
• Protected environment green areas Ranch "3js"
• Residential centre
• The participants will be managed by TILS.

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United KingdomEnsuring Positive Futures

• Objectives
• Empower, re-skill and motivate PLWHA back into
  employment.
• Ensure that non-discriminatory work is available
  for PLWHA
• Combat discrimination faced by PLWHA and promote
  equality in the workplace
• Expand provision nationally in G.B
• Website
• http//www.ukcoalition.org http//www.e-pf.org.uk/
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• Target
• People Living with HIV
• Partners
• UKC - Centre for Living Project
• Positively Women - Community Policy worker to be
  shared with UKC
• Positive East - Living well Working well
  Project
• Terrence Higgins Trust - Telephone Web based
  employment advice line in addition to already
  established services.
• Oasis North London - Case management of clients
  both for skills training and Job search
• National Aids Trust - Lobbying Campaigning work
  involving employers, trade unions and other trade
  groups.

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Common themes idedtyfied at the beginning of
cooperation

• Compare working arrangements with employers and
  trade unions and share methodologies
• Share cultural approaches via transnational work
• Examine the approaches to chronic illness/living
  with long term medical conditions
• Compare disability legislation and a common
  approach to lobbying
• Look at what approaches are used for peer support
  and training
• Develop and test different models of
  employability of PLWH
• Compare strategies and develop models for
  encouraging employers to tackle HIV
  discrimination in the workplace

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We all agreed what is necessary

• Empowerment of PLWHA,
• Knowledge,
• Awarness,
• Openness,
• Engaging NGOs,
• cooperation between public sectors

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Task groups

• Lobbying led by UK To identify cross cutting
  issues relevant to all partners, develop a
  baseline for lobby work, share practices and
  mechanisms for lobbying, collate examples of good
  practice/ success stories from lobbying, explore
  possibilities for joint lobbying on EU level
  where relevant
• 2. Employers/employment/ trade unions/ ergonomic
  led by France, includes comparing our approach to
  working with employers and trade unions to other
  transnational partners, Share methodology for
  overcome difficulties, Share cultural approaches
  to chronic illness. To share the principle of the
  ergonomic approach in dealing with disability
  and employment

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Task groups cont.

• 3. Vocational Re-adaptation led by PolandTo
  compare the common points of vocational
  re-adaptation (therapy, support, guidance,
  vocational training, ecological/ rural
  programmes), Gather, document, share and present
  at relevant conferences examples of good practice
  and success stories
• 4. Empowerment and Equal Opportunities led by
  Finland. This group will focus on comparison of
  peer support programmes in each country, share
  mechanism for ensuring and encouraging client
  empowerment, involvement and participation.
  Gather, document, share and present at relevant
  conferences examples of good practice and success
  stories

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We learned from the UK and the German

• Employers and trade unions have to be approached
  patiently and with care, they need time .
• A variety of approaches is needed depending
• - on size of company and to some - extent of the
  warmth of the first reception.
• Some companies are interested in focusing in
  detail on specific conditions, while others
  prefer to cover a wider number of topics at once
  e.g. dealing with hidden disabilities or even
  broader diversity on the workplace .
• Between the projects a variety of tools have
  been developed all of which are available for
  down load and could easily be adapted for local
  implementation
• the importance of including unions in the target
  group
• Experience has shown that some companies are
  very keen to demonstrate that they have a GOOD
  policy, but are not quite as active in its
  implementation. By including unions, not only
  does it broaden understanding of the issues to
  union reps, it also deals with the unions
  (themselves employers), and they can then lead by
  example. Unions can then help ensure that any
  good policies are properly implemented.

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We learned from the UK and the German cont.

• A second case study from Britain focused on the
  Centre for Living project
• Example of project
• This project targets those people living with HIV
  who, by their physical or emotional state, on top
  of their length of unemployment are furthest away
  from the job market. The aim is assist PLWH to
  take the first steps to begin a journey towards
  entering education, training or employment. (This
  is a group we had previously been unable to
  engage within our other back to work projects)
• The project has two strands
• Fitness - one to one personal training in an
  onsite gym, access to alternative therapies,
  information and courses on health and nutrition
• Gardening - an allotment where participant can
  grow their own vegetable and be taught basic
  recipes, developing an ecology garden that will
  act as an educational resource at Vauxhall City
  Farm, supporting and mentoring young trainees
  with learning disabilities and behavioural
  problems at Roots Shoots in horticulture
  activities.
• This project is explicitly testing and making
  links between health support and employability
  support..

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We learned from the Spanish

• Its effective to talk about HIV in the wider
  context of other disabilities including mental
• Its important that the public sector in health
  and labour cooperate closely
• Our Spanish colleagues have given us all hope
  that here is a possibility for the much talked
  about joined up thinking in government.
• In Badajoz the local department of Health has
  taken the lead with an employability project.
  They see that rehabilitation of people with
  complex conditions does not end by focusing on
  health indicators alone. Rehabilitation in its
  widest sense should be seen as a continuum and
  provided as a service providing support to the
  individual to prepare for applying for, gaining
  and retaining employment.

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We learned from the Polish

• Ecology is an effective tool to fight both
  unemployment and discrimination
• Ecology helps develop new interests/hobbies,
  which support addicts to stay sober help PLWHA
  engage and open to new fields of interest and
  work
• Centres for rehabilitation become ecological
  centres of excellence and spread information in
  local communities, which helps curb
  discrimination
• Eg patient on therapy took care of horses as
  professional training, he decided to stay in the
  country and start agro-tourist place with horses
  with suppor of the centre he is getting married
  next month.
• Eg local people started coming to the treatment
  and rehab centre with drug users and PLWHA for
  advice, support and job, totally forgetting
  their previous worries of getting in trouble or
  getting infected with HIV.

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We learned from the French

• HIV is one of the handicaps in the workplace,
  which doesnt have to impair the quality of work
  provided both the employer and other employees
  are aware and involved.
• There are multiple ailments or health conditions
  (less stressfull than HIV) that require special
  attention of the employers to make best of the
  employees effectiveness
• We consider very important the philosophy our
  French partners have transmitted, that is to say,
  the concept of adapting the workplace to the
  worker and not the worker to the workplace (with
  participation of other employees).

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We learned from the Finns

• Discrimination has more faces then we thought
• a new phrase multi reasonal marginalization.
• A term that doesnt exist in English and yet is
  eminently clear. It also explains how the
  partnership has worked so well in that by having
  HIV and our uniting theme, it is a clear
  understanding that individuals often face
  multiple reasons and causes for their
  marginalization. These reasons are as diverse as
  gender, trans gender, sexuality, colour, race
  disability, and HIV discrimination is often
  linked to each and all of these. Any single
  reason can be problematic for an individual but
  when there are multiple reasons often greater and
  more specicific assistance and supprt is
  required. Sometimes the first step is simply to
  recognize and acknowledge these multiple
  reasons...