The ABEJ’s workshops are initiatives designed to offer vocational integration and access to training. These integration initiatives run as a complement to initiatives run by the other departments: day care, treatment, accommodation, rehousing, education.
The Multiservices workshop :
Like many other associations, the ABEJ-Lille sometimes employs people on "aided" contracts in order to run its services. Drawing on its experience in the field of vocational integration for very vulnerable people, the Abej wanted to offer these people better support as part of a genuine vocational integration approach. So the workshop offers vulnerable young people and adults a job tailored to their plans to allow them to enter the world of work and gain qualifications.
This includes the following fields :
- secretarial work, - cleaning, - laundry, - the hotel industry, - building maintenance, - courier deliveries.
The aims are :
- To stabilise the person and give them their own working pace, - To provide or restore a knowledge of how the world of business works, - To pass on know-how and to develop skills, - To make the most of abilities and to help people realise what they are capable of, - To develop user participation, to give them a major active role in the organisation, - To encourage access to employment or training leading to qualifications if necessary, - To create an environment likely to encourage the development of independence for each user.
The workshop operates internally both for the needs of the association and with other associations for cleaning, laundry and building maintenance.
People are recruited on a “Contrat d'Avenir” (Contract for the Future) or Contrat d'Accompagnement à l'Emploi (Retraining Contract) and may be referred to them by PLIE, RMI or Local Team advisers.
The Jeunes et Partage workshop :
This is a woodcraft workshop, a genuine springboard aimed at young people without resources and without qualifications. This offers these young people their first experience in the world of work. As well as working with wood, the workshop helps people gain an understanding of their social difficulties.
As part of the Jeunes et Partage workshop project, every year young people from the workshop co-operate on a humanitarian project and go away for 3 weeks, paying for the trip partly with their own earnings.
- 1999: Senegal - 2000: India - 2001 and 2002: Burkina Faso - 2003, 2004 and 2005: Brazil - 2006: Cameroon
The aims of the workshop are :
- To make contact with the world of work and occupational training. - To acquire 12 months' experience for highly unstable young people. - To receive a wage which helps with their rehousing plans. - To break down the walls of solitude and allow people to join a group, to restore a social bond. - To feel valued through humanitarian projects, education and leisure activities.
Target :
Young people (both girls and boys) aged from 18 to 25. When they arrive without resources, they are employed for 26 hours per week on a Contrat d'Avenir.
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