Presentation given by Jacub Wilczek, Back on Track, Poland at a FEANTSA Conference on "Multiple Barriers, Multiple Solutions: Inclusion into and through Employment for People who are homeless ", Zaragoza, Spain, 2007

1. Przykładowy tytuł (36;B)
Przykładowy podtytuł (32)
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Jakub Wilczek
„Back on Track”, Poland
Transnational Partnership
”Back on Track”
under the Community Initiative EQUAL

2. The Netherlands
”Tussenvoorziening ViaVia” (Transition Workshop ViaVia)
Poland
”Wyprowadzić na prostą” (Back on Track)
Slovakia
”Šanca na nový začiatok” (Chance for a New Beginning)
Objectives:
 reintegration of socially excluded groups
 altering the negative image of the target groups
 sharing the experiences and information
 incorporating the obtained knowledge into own activities
The transnational co-operation
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3. The activities are held within Workgroups (WG):
 WG1 ”Method development” (The Netherlands)
 WG2 ”Train the Trainer” (Slovakia)
 Mainstreaming and evaluation (Poland)
Sharing experiences
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Developed and mainstreamed results will be used by each
national organisation involved, as well as the labour market
and social welfare institutions in the three member states.

4. Each project involved implements a method of individual
support within the area of social and professional
reintegration:
 The Netherlands – focused on the pre-work phase
(workshop) and the drug abuse rehabilitation
 Poland – focused on social activation and establishing
a local support network
 Slovakia – social counselling by the long-term unemployed
individuals in the Social Centres
Methods
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5.  Knowledge and experiences (best practices) sharing
on the various levels
 Study visits in the institutions opened within the projects
and the homeless shelters
 Group work (preparing the final documents)
 Including the obtained knowledge into the domestic
projects
Forms of the transnational co-operation
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6.  The Polish partner identified that homeless people were
not used to everyday work, which resulted in some of them
loosing their jobs soon after leaving the project;
 Study visit in the Netherlands gives the Polish partner
an inspiration – the workshop enabling the clients to learn
how to cope with the work environment before starting
a job in the open labour market;
 A new institution that includes a workshop is opened
in Poland;
 The workshop method is innovative for Polish standards,
therefore it will be mainstreamed and used in further
activities of the Polish partner.
What has actually worked? – an example
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7.  A website describing the transnational partnership,
its purpose, means and goals.
 A book including the outcomes of the Workgroups and
the evaluation report, also with a CD consisted of various
materials created by the Workgroups and each project
involved (available in December 2007).
 Sharing and learning the best practices, implementing them
into further activities of each organisation involved.
 Mainstreaming the obtained knowledge among the
institutions of the labour market and social welfare areas
in the three involved member states.
Mainstreaming the results
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8. Thank you for your attention
www.back-on-track-project.eu
viavia.dackushosting.nl
www.wnp.org.pl
charita.grkatpo.sk/equal.php
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