A pioneering project in Andalusia: dual training for people with intellectual disabilities

This is a project in which the PRODE Foundation has placed great hope and confidence to respond to the lack of experience and little training that often faces people with intellectual disabilities when facing the challenge of employment. This is an initiative based on the dual training modality, which integrates a set of mixed training actions of employment and training and is aimed at the professional qualification in the field of hospitality for 10 people with intellectual disabilities in a system of alternating work activity in the company with training activity in the classroom.

Impact of the good practice

Apart from the impact on the quality of life of the people themselves, it has a substantial influence on their families as the main support, who are used to assuming additional costs (economic, emotional, derived from the provision of support, etc.) in comparison with other family units in which there is no disabled member. Access to this project means a relief in the impositions that the rest of the members of the family group have to bear in the co-responsibility of providing support and seeking opportunities after the educational stage, whether in terms of time, money, physical effort or opportunity costs.

Likewise, society suffers a positive impact in terms of intangible benefits, which are difficult to quantify, such as values that include self-improvement, solidarity, dedication, patience, empathy, respect, collaboration, gratitude, energy, perseverance, integration, demand, as well as the essential value of equal opportunities.

Applicability/ Transferability of the good practice in VET

This working procedure is ideal for this profile of worker-pupils where, besides having access to an employment contract, they are being trained to acquire an official qualification through level 1 certificates of professionalism. Being able to put into practice, day by day, the theoretical knowledge facilitates their learning, thus reducing the difficulties that people with intellectual disabilities have in learning and promoting the improvement of their quality of life.