Where can people who are homeless find employment

1
Where can people who are homeless find employment?

• Experience from Caritas Spain

Member of
2
Let us have a short look at

• The people with whom Caritas Spain is working
• What is Caritas Spain doing in terms of
  homlessness and employment
• A few questions and thoughts about homlessness
  and employment

3
With whom are we working?

• Men 40 long term unemployed
• But also, and increasingly
• Migrants (Africa and East Europe)
• Irregular migrants!!!
• Young people
• Women
• Women who worked in prostitution
• Separated and divorced men
• Health problems mental health, alcohol, drugs,
  etc.
• All of them come and ask for EMPLOYMENT.

4
What are we doing? (I)General Frame

• Holistic approach health, housing, leisure time,
  community and family, and employment.
• We work social-educational processes.
• Employment as a possible horizon on the long term
  (social
• exclusion).
• A lot of previous objectives health, housing,
  self-esteem, personal, social, labour skills (key
  competences), social networks, etc.
• Also social studies and social consciousness

5
What are we doing? (II)Employability

• Personal Integration Pathways
• Development of personal, social and labour
  skills.
• Guidance (reference service and life long
  guidance)
• Vocational Training
• Employment
• Networking
• Protected Employment
• Social useful activities
• Social contracts
• Social enterprises
• Long term support (follow up, guidance, )

6
Questions and thoughts (I)

• Where can people who are homeless find
  employment? - A politically correct, but wrong
  question?
• Employment what for?
• Subsistence
• Identity
• Participation
• Creation
• If employment, for whom? - vulnerability
• Participation and who takes the decision

Basic Human Needs (?Rights)
Employment is one possible satisfactor for these
needs, but not the only one.
7
Questions and thoughts (II)

• Employment is easy to find, but difficult to
  keep.
• What kind of employment do they find?
• Low skilled, low paid, no stability
• Employment is not an inclusion-guarantee
  (instability, working poor, exploitation,).
• Employment yes, as one element more in the
  educational process BUT not an obsession, not in
  any case, not at any price.
• The role of local administration and local
  employers for the protected employment.

8
Thanks for your interest and patience