The Methods of Inclusion Into the Labor Market

1. The employment of Ex-prisoners: Examples of Good PracticeSocialization and Vocational Training Centre

2. The Methods of Inclusion Into the Labor Market • The reintegration of ex-prisoners is depending on a few principal factors: the motivation of an individual and the attitude of the society. • In the process of ex-prisoners’ adaptation social-psychological problems are observed and described.

3. Problem and Its Solutions • In Lithuania there are no effective long-term models of social support and integration into labor market that could unite all the resources available in the system. • Is it possible to implement one?

4. Institutional Support System For Individuals Released from Prison

5. Main Concepts

6. Legal Base

7. Assistance to convicts and persons returning from imprisonment • To improve qualification or re-qualify social workers of municipalities and non-governmental organizations; • To provide psychological and professional counseling and vocational training to convicts. The Training Service of the Lithuanian Labor Exchange provided psychological and professional counseling for convicts. • To provide vocational training for persons returning from imprisonment and to find jobs for persons returning from imprisonment. • To support projects of organizations aimed at social rehabilitation and integration into the society of convicts and persons returning from imprisonment. • To collect information from municipalities about their social assistance provided to persons returning from imprisonment.

8. Law on Social Undertakings Social undertakings defined: • It shall be an independent small or medium company meeting the requirements set in the Law on Small and Medium Businesses • A company with no less than 40 % of employees from target groups and no less than 4 employees. • A company is involved in the development of working and social skills of employees as well as social integration. • Income from non-supported activities of social enterprises is not higher than 20 %.

9. Some Statistics Source: Crime and the Law Enforcement Activity 2009 ISSN 2029-3666 Statistical publication Lithuanian–EnglishBy Department of Statistics under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, 2010

11. Children Under 16 who Have Committed Criminal Offences

13. Average time of Imprisonment in Imprisonment Institutions

14. Convicts in imprisonment institutions by age group and sex

15. Average time of Imprisonment in Imprisonment Institutions

16. Released From Imprisonment

17. Employment of Convicts In Imprisonment Institutions

18. NGO Support • Caritas of Lithuania, Caritas of Vilnius; • Charity and culture society of Evangelical Lutheran parish “Sandora”; • Christian charity fund “Samarija”; • Lithuanian Society for Prisoner Care; • Others

19. From Models to Measures How to Chose the Best Tool? • Mentoring; • Involvement of relatives; • Social services (temporary housing, welfare, food supply, etc.); • Workplace subsidies, public works; • Consulting; • Others

20. The orientation of Employment Programs and the Tools They Offer

21. What Tools Are Effective In the Western Countries? • The ones related to the intensive services of employment, supervision and assistance; • The programs oriented to improving ones motivation (programs that include motivated ex-prisoners, parents and relatives, mentors); • Transitional Employment

22. Integration of the persons released from prison into society and the labor market. • The main idea is to create Innovative Phasing Practical Model of social integration (the IPPM model); • Model involves applying of short-term work system for persons released from prison, learning and working motivation courses (improving of the working skills) in the employer's organizations; • Model would improve the working skills of the target group, motivate former convicted to work, would nurture their social responsibilities and enable target group persons to identify their positive characteristics and to develop its value added. • The model will be implemented in three phases.

23. Mentoring as a Tool Mentoring is superior to the other forms of professional consulting: • Mentor helps the program participant(client) to understand the responsibility for his labor activities; • The relationship among the mentor and consultant are based on cooperation; • Employment is not the only thing that matters. Learning, understanding working environment, adaptation are equally important. The participant of the program can experience the consequences of his choices; • Both specialists (social workers, psychologists) and non-specialists (the members of NGOs, other professionals) can become mentors.

24. Characteristics of the Measures • The organization that implements the integration program of ex-prisoners should consider individual, group-based and combined models; • Mentoring is possible at the workplace and beyond

25. Important Things When Applying Mentoring and Other Programs • Support of various nature; • Determining the needs; • Observation and supervision; • Conflict solution.