Probens was created in the end of 1983. We have the experience to work in youth and adult training as well as in vocational training with national, regional and local networks for more than 30 years, and about 20 years in international projects. We are specialists in work with social segregated people: women, young people, children, and unemployed people elder than 45 years. We are on national level of incidence. In this moment PROBENS employs 16 professionals, 12 volunteers and 5 students in practicum (in Barcelona – Catalonia and Inca – Mallorca). Our first objective is to help people to find a job, to give the different skills and methods for to be autonomous in their processes to integration.
We have 3 different branches of activity:
Employment: we make individual itineraries for people that look for a new job, after long period unemployed; included specific trainings, and intermediation with different enterprises to find good offers. Also be make sessions for to improve the employment competences of our target group.
– Youth services: we work with young people from 18-21 years old that were in tutelage for the State when they were minors. We make with them the individual itineraries for to help to be autonomous. Also we manage mobility projects for Young people with problems for to find a job (send and received groups).
– Training services: we make specific trainings for professionals and voluntaries from other organizations, also for private enterprises and public organisms, concerning our specialties: interculturality, European projects, social networks, etc.
– In Mallorca we have one more branch: the socio-educative projects, for work with a children and young people (educational reinforcement, psychological support for them and their families, alternative activities, preparation for the entry to the employment market, …).
We are members of REIN, one European network, and also active members of different local, regional and national networks. Our role in this project is to plan the evaluation of the development of the project and its results, as well as to think about the structure of the training and the training and advisory centres that will be created during the project. Our organization doesn’t work directly and exclusively with disabled people, but we serve anyone who needs to find a job or improve their employability. But we do have contact with many companies and organizations that work with these groups, and we also have contacts with tourism organisms, which are very interested in the subject of the project.
