Työmieli = Mood For Work -project

Main target group
Employers

Main objective
To inform employers about the rehabilitees as a potential labour for enterprises.

Main concept
Employer Counselling. To support employers in their recruitment processes with rehabilitees. Networking between rehabilitation institutions and employment offices plays an important role in making the hiring procedure as easy as possible for employers.


Objectives of the project

Mood For Work -project aims to make the enterprises in the Satakunta region more aware of their opportunities for employing rehabilitees, especially mental health rehabilitees. The enterprises will become familiar with the forms of social support and the prevailing best practices in Finland. Consequently, the project will result in an educational model, a model for social innovation and related training material, created in cooperation between Satakunta University of Applied Sciences (SAMK) and several public and private organizations.


Target groups

The primary target group consists of the employers and entrepreneurs in the Satakunta region, with future needs for additional staff in their enterprises and workplaces.

Another target group consists of expert organizations working in the field of supported employment and rehabilitation. Mood For Work -project will coordinate regional networks consisting of these actors in order to create a new supported employment model which is easy for employers to use.

As the biggest rehabilitation group mental health rehabilitees have a special role in the project and the collaboration with them and the employers will lead to successful pilot cases.

Mood For Work -project co-operates with national and international research and development organizations promoting the employment of mental health rehabilitees.

In addition, the project is intended for SAMK's teachers and other personnel to whom the project will give hands-on experience of entrepreneurs and employing rehabilitees in the Satakunta Region.


Working methods

Mood For Work -project is strongly based on the concept of Employer Counselling. That is service counselling for employers which consists of case management and service coordination.
Employers will be offered personal support for their employment processes when recruiting rehabilitees, especially mental health rehabilitees. The service development will be carried out by means of networking.

The employer counselling is a customer-oriented working method where a customer’s benefit is the starting point for all the employment support activities. In context of this project the employers and entrepreneurs are key customers.


Why this project?

More retirement is happening in Finland in the near future. To keep the reduction of work input as small as possible also people with limited ability to work should be seen as a potential labour for enterprises. Employing a rehabilitee is an investment for the future.


CONTACT INFORMATION:

Mood For Work -project
Kaarina Latostenmaa
Project Manager, MSocSc
Tel. +358 44 7103662
E-mail: kaarina.latostenmaa@samk.fi
Address: SAMK/ Työmieli
Maamiehenkatu 10, FI-28500 Pori, Finland
www.tyomieli.fi

Administrator:
Satakunta University of Applied Sciences (SAMK)
www.samk.fi

Financier:
Satakunta University of Applied Sciences (SAMK)
Centre for Economic Development, Transport and Environment (ELY Centre)
European Social Fund (ESF)