TRAINING PROGRAMMES FOR THE INTGRAF SPECIAL EMPLOYMENT CENTRE Collaboration with the INTGRAF Special Employment Centre on training programmes for young workers.
The María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation has collaborated with the INTGRAF Special Employment Centre to create its 2014-2015 Christmas cards. This year, the Foundation wanted to pay tribute to the Asturian artist Joaquín Rubio Camin. This project, which is very special for the Foundation and which it treats with great care, was carried out with the support and enthusiasm of the centre’s workers.
The Intgraf Special Employment Centre is formed by 22 young workers with mental disabilities, and a training and support team formed by 5 people. Its objective is the integration, training and well-being of people with disabilities based on a Social Project which is funded by productive, competitive and quality work: the design and manufacture of boxes, cases and promotional gifts.
The policy of support towards these people with disabilities is focused on strengthening their education and training, based on specific actions and appropriate training programmes, in order to improve their employability, as a necessary and fundamental manner of enabling real possibilities for social integration.
The María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation collaborates with this special centre in the development of training programmes which are necessary to facilitate the adaptation of workers to their post, to the new technologies and to innovative productive processes required by their professional activity. Adequate training, adapted to the complexity and diversity of each individual, considerably improves their learning capacity, improves their job performance and encourages entrepreneurial skills.
Awards and Recognitions granted to the Intgraf Centre:
– 16th Gijón Open City Award. Awarded to Intgraf “for the ability of its workers to overcome the difficulties faced by people with mental disabilities when competing on the labour market, demonstrating that determination is an essential condition for a project to succeed”.
– Best Social Enterprise. Awarded by the Group of Asturian Societies of Associated Work (ASATA).
– Spanish Award for Quality and Professional and Business Excellence. Awarded by the Hidalgo Schumann National Association of Social Graduates within the field of “Support of people with disabilities and dependant individuals”.
– Best Social Economy Company in 2002. Awarded by the newspaper “El Comercio”.
