dabei-austria is constituted as a non-profit association and is based in
The association advocates giving people with disabilities a fair chance of professional integration into the open employment market, in other words, offering young people valuable perspectives in regard to their future professional lives.
A pool of service providers offering occupational orientation and integration, the organization combines these resources on a federal level and represents their interests to policy makers, administrators and businesses.
Dabei-austria also promotes lobbying activities for providing constructive input into the general framework and structural models for occupational integration.
The umbrella organization sees itself as a platform to promote better communication and the sharing of ideas between its members.
The organization of networking opportunities and continuing education programs facilitates the transfer of knowledge and conceptual/methodical discussions.
The involvement of other national and international networks will provide increased benefits for member organizations.
The umbrella organization currently represents some 50 organizations throughout
Employment support
Vocational training assistence
Clearing
Job coaching
Individual support at the workplace
The umbrella organization, Professional Integration Austria, was founded in 2002 as an umbrella of initially all supported employment projects in
The umbrella organization also established itself as information platform and service point for members and cooperation partners as well as a mouthpiece between the service providers and the financial sources. The membership increased steadily.
Finally, in 2006, a carefully prepared expansion of the umbrella organization took place to include even more of Professional Integration's proposals sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Social Affairs and Consumer Protection.
The pooling of all Professional Integration's services under one common umbrella organization took place in March of 2006 and the amalgamation was sealed by changing the name of the organization. Since then, the umbrella organization operates successfully under the designation Dachverband berufliche Integration