About Us
The Project Aura was born in Barcelona in October 1989, by an initiative of the professionals from the area of integrational education.
The Project aura is the first program of Supported Employment in Spain, pioneer in implementation and development of this methology. The aim of this program is to integrate people with special needs, mostly with Down Syndrome, to the ordinary labour market via the Supported Employment methology. This methology allows to prepare the future candidates, taking into account their possibilities and their special need for support.
Since 1989 more than 80 young people have joined the ordinary working world. More than 80% of the workers maintain their job positions and have indefinite term contracts. From the begining it was supported and partially subventioned by the General Department f Occupation of Catalan Autonomous Government, via the occupational training programmes for people with special
needs.
The Project Aura is an active member of different associations with common interests: social and labour inclusion of people with special needs for support. the Project Aura is a founding member of AESE (Spanish Association of Employment), ACTAS (Catalan Association of Supported Employment), a member of FEISD (Spanish of Down Syndrome) and APPS (Catalan Federation for protection of people with mental retardation).
The Project Aura has been part of different European program, developing study, research and interchange activities. One of these program was a Grup II Helios, represented by more than 10 European countries, the group Horizon-Inclusion developed and implemented a Continuing service Quality Improvement program and with other of Horizon, Transwork, a manual of Good Practices and Resources was made to carry out the work of supported employment in different European countries. The group Leonardo-Quality in Practice implemented different supported employment service evaluation means. Presently it forms part of two European Leonardo program.
In 1996 the Project Aura organized the IV National Symposium of Supported Employment attended by more than 350 people and in 2005 participated in the organization of the 7 th International Congress of Supported Employment with more than 700 attendees.
Apart from the Project Aura book dealing with labour integration experience, it counts with numerous publications and congress speeches.
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HUMAN RESOURCES
This whole labour inclusion process requires resources which are mainly HUMAN, due to individually-tailored supervision that require the disabled, as well as TECHNICAL that guarantee acquaintance with the labour world, the area of disabilities, the learning processes, the possibilities to communicate and teach, to observe and evaluate the integration process so that it would be possible to intervene in an appropriate manner.
EMPLOYERS
The Members of the board:
- President: Montserat Domenech
- Vice-president and Director: Gloria Canals
- Treasurer: Carme LLorens
- Secretary: Jose Javier Valero (representative of "Amics del Projecte Aura")
- Vocal member: Rosa Boada
The following people have accepted the proposal to be the Honour Employers:
- Sr. Carlo U.Bonomi
- Sr. David Garcia-Gasull
- Dr. Climent Giné i Giné
- Dr. Eduard Estivill
- Sr. Ernesto Fernández Canseco
- Sr. Juan José López-Burniol
- Sr. Gabriel Masfurroll
- Sra. Isabel Martínez Torralba
- Dr. Roger Mercadé
- Sr. Joaquim Poch
- Sra. Eulàlia Trias
