France FR-REU-2004-42541

AMETHIS
Accompaniment and Mobilisation towards Employment for Senior disabled workers

Global objective:: To fight against professional marginalisation of disabled senior workers by experimenting an innovating disposal. The aim is to increase the capacity of professional insertion of those people and to support a voluntarist process of prospecting and sensitizing the companies to the employment of senior people recognized as disabled worker.
Specific objective:: To contribute to the increase of the employment rate of disabled senior in Reunion island.

30 of 45 years-old disabled workers registered as job seekers and in priority are retained the persons presenting the following characteristics: long-term unemployment, dismissal for inaptitude or for economic reason, having an acquired handicap of any kind. The experimentation proceeds in two times with:
- One group of 15 people in the Northern zone of the island in 2005
- And another group of 15 people in the Southern zone of the island in 2006

An accompaniment device for disabled workers in three steps :
- One preparatory phase for the return to employment with diagnostic activities, professional, psychosociological accompaniment and reinforcement of the competences in communication and methodology in job research.
- One integration phase in work organizations to put forwards the professional competences and to negotiate an employment.
- One phase of accompaniment in employment for people who found a professional solution and a phase of active accompaniment with research of an employment for the others.
One accompaniment device of the companies on the employment of senior people by information, sensitizing and advice to employment and the integration of disabled workers.

On this experimental phase, the project AMETHIS aims at the placing of 75 % of the people accompanied in a durable employment.