Caritas for people

with disabilities

Stephanie Wögerer

Caritas für Menschen mit Behinderungen

Dream-Job: •something with animals •did an internship – allergic

School•Lived in St. Isidor •went to a school for people with special needs•no information about job•had problems in maths, likes biology

Stephanie Wögerer

Caritas für Menschen mit Behinderungen

VET•job orientation•in the area “kitchen” – main activity cooking•one year left •if she doesn‘t find a job – has to go home

she will have to search for a job on her ownvisiting her boyfriend will be challenging

•parents choose VET, she likes it now

•thinks is hard to find a job in her home town, she can not do the offered jobs

•parents say she can’t make it: e.g. bookshop, she likes to read

Simone Bauer

Caritas für Menschen mit Behinderungen

VET•Job orientation – area industry (building candles, company: lamps, ventilation of lamps, cables…)•likes the VET program•“Jugend am Werk”

chose job for hercourse/internship, learning helpwaited for 2 to 3 years for getting into JO

Wished Job•Painter, retail industry (shelf care), kitchen•wants to make a teaching profession•thinks she can get a job at her home town

Simone Bauer

Caritas für Menschen mit Behinderungen

School:•Internship: retail industry, hairdresser•got enough information

Had already a job: •Spa Hotel•Kitchen•was bullied by colleagues because she didn’t want to talk•quit the job

Friederike Pamminger

Caritas für Menschen mit Behinderungen

VET:•VIA NOVA / house keeping: service and waiting•next week extern modul of SPAR: shelf keeping•likes it, likes the kitchen

After school:•had no work for 2/3 months•Employment service Austria (AMS) projekt “Frau Genau” (for one year) state didn’t extended her palce•then VIA NOVA

Frau Genau: one internship, employer quit after 2/3 days - too slow

Friederike Pamminger

Caritas für Menschen mit Behinderungen

JOB:•wants to be shelf keeper or work in a kitchen•wants to make a vocational education•comes from the country side – will be difficult to find a job

School:•“enrolment” – they said she has to go to a special school because of learning disabilities•special school marks were not good – she thinks she is not able to make a vocational education•teacher said it will be difficult to get an education for her•got to less information/internships (got already 5 chances)•German was hard, other subjects good marks

Companies are having prejudice against special schools, (they are bad skilled) only work for “good” students

Tanja Schypani

Caritas für Menschen mit Behinderungen

School:•school for people with special needs•got no information about work opportunities, no internship

VET:•industry: butting plaster into boxes•had the chance fo a try out within a company•likes it•already 2 years within VET, one year left to choose a job

Job:•industrial work •she doesn’t know if she wants to do vocational educatio•Comes from the country side – no job at home

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