{"id":12885,"date":"2016-01-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/aukin-thjonusta-fyrir-fatlad-folk\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T08:59:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T08:59:03","slug":"increased-services-for-disabled-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/aukin-thjonusta-fyrir-fatlad-folk\/","title":{"rendered":"Increased services for disabled people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and the non-profit organisation Specialisterne (Specialisterne in Iceland) recently entered into a six-month partnership agreement, effective from the next month. During this period, Specialisterne will provide suitable job training and job assessments for disabled jobseekers within the City of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, specifically to increase their chances of success in the general labour market. This is a pure addition to the other resources available within the municipality.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The organisation Specialisterne in Iceland has taken on the provision of professional services for disabled jobseekers within the municipality of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur. The number of direct jobseekers over the year depends on progress assessments, but it is estimated that four work placement spaces will be fully utilised by Specialisterne at any one time. The presence of each service user is four hours per day. The organisation provides premises and specialist expertise, ensuring that the quality of the work is satisfactory and that the work is effective for the jobseekers. <\/p>\n<p><strong>About Specialisterne<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>S\u00e9rfr\u00e6\u00f0ingarnir is a non-profit organisation that was founded in early 2010 by the Association for the Care of Autistic People and seven other individuals. The aim and purpose of the association's establishment was to specialise in services concerning employment support for individuals on the autism spectrum. This was a new and necessary resource in Iceland, and too many individuals on the autism spectrum had, until then, been unemployed or in jobs where their abilities were not being well utilised.<\/p>\n<p>Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur has high hopes for this agreement, which is likely to bring even more people into the labour market. Another example of a successful project for disabled people seeking employment is The Wasps \u2013 a project in which 6 individuals have taken an active part since the autumn of 2015. There will also be an increase in the ranks of The Wasps in the new year.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hafnarfjar\u00f0arb\u00e6r og sj\u00e1lfseignarstofnunin S\u00e9rfr\u00e6\u00f0ingarnir (Specialisterne \u00e1 \u00cdslandi) ger\u00f0u n\u00fdlega me\u00f0 s\u00e9r samstarfssamkomulag til sex m\u00e1na\u00f0a sem gildir fr\u00e1 og me\u00f0 n\u00e6stu m\u00e1na\u00f0arm\u00f3tum. Specialisterne munu \u00e1 t\u00edmabilinu veita f\u00f6tlu\u00f0um atvinnuleitendum innan Hafnarfjar\u00f0arb\u00e6jar starfs\u00fej\u00e1lfun vi\u00f0 h\u00e6fi auk starfsmats gagngert til a\u00f0 auka l\u00edkur \u00feeirra og fars\u00e6ld \u00e1 almennum vinnumarka\u00f0i. H\u00e9r er um hreina vi\u00f0b\u00f3t a\u00f0 r\u00e6\u00f0a vi\u00f0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12885"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}