A main aim of the Partnership for Development (Partnerstwo na rzecz Rozwoju (PR)), is to create a comprehensive, wide-ranging system to counteract discrimination of the Youth Intellectually Able but Impaired in Mobility (women and men aged 18-24) and to equalize their opportunities for their start into heir new ways of personal and professional life, as mature people.

The Partnership for Development YIABIM (MISARN) consists of:

Postgraduate studies „Counseling and Career Planning for Persons with Disabilities"

Postgraduate studies „Counseling and Career Planning for Persons with Disabilities" are organized at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Warsaw. An aim of these studies is to prepare a leader group of counselors, who would support young people at time of a so-called transition. There will be trained 20 „Transition Advisors”, who just after completion of their studies will be able to start their work with young people; for example in advisory offices for persons with disabilities, at schools, foundations and non-governmental organizations (NGO).
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Tasks of the Specialist for Counseling and Career Planning for Persons with Disabilities

We aim at implementing new solutions concerning supporting persons with disabilities in conquering consequences of their social exclusion. For its realization there was established a new position of the Specialist for Counseling and Career Planning for Persons with Disabilities. The main task of a person employed as the Specialist is to offer help for persons with disabilities during difficult periods of transition from a high school to studies or from an educational environment to the job market. The Counselor will organize trainings, workshops and consultations aimed at helping persons with disabilities to come out from social isolation and to take up an active life.
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Training for the Warsaw City Buses drivers

One of the main barriers encountered by persons with disabilities is lack of a possibility to freely move around in the city. Trainings planned for the Warsaw City Buses drivers (about 3450 persons) aim at improving a quality of services provided for persons with disabilities who use the city transport. Making the drivers more sensitive to needs of passengers with disabilities and teaching them how to help such persons efficiently, may also lead to improvement of their behavior towards other persons who require a special attention from the driver.

International cooperation

An international cooperation is an important element of the project. When partners from Germany, Poland, Slovenia and Great Britain meet together, they exchange their experiences and discuss on working out common solutions in the field of access of young persons with disabilities to universities or other institutions of higher education. We discuss also problems of equal opportunities for obtaining a higher education and finding one's own place in the job market. Results of this work will be contained in two publications: “Disability and studies” and “Disability and work”.
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