Altera Vita – EMPLOYMENT

ALTERA VITA includes the preparation and support of vulnerable adults and minors for their social reintegration and promotion in the labor market.
 In this direction, the organization provides psychosocial and professional counseling support to people in this social group.

In general,  ALTERA VITA aims:

(a) The establishment and development of structures for the protection of vulnerable adults and minors in cooperation with bodies and organizations.
(b) to raise awareness among employers and society of issues concerning vulnerable groups and especially people with special needs.

c) research - study and proposals to tackle social exclusion.

(d) encouraging - strengthening and exploiting private initiative and volunteering

ALTERA VITA with KEFIAP Syros ( Department  for disabled people of the  Hospital of Syros), after an Agreement, serving people with disabilities, which are predominantly included  in the following diagnostic categories:

neurological difficulties, cerebral palsy, mental retardation, diffuse disturbances
KEFIAP operates as a Day Centre, providing evaluation, support, treatment, and monitoring in outpatients and patients to their families.

At the same time, it organizes parallel actions that enhance healing and rehabilitation, which includes laboratories for the Disabled people and support groups and counseling of parents/guardians;  their curers.

ALTERA VITA's PARALLEL ACTIONS 

a) Parents / guardians / carers, groups of disabled people.

b) Entertainment, socialization workshops and training of those benefiting from the KEFIAP.
C) Counselling groups for employment with Disabled people.

 ERASMUS + YOUR LIFE YOUR STORY:  Hello my name is Antonis Stellas.

The moving story of Antonis .... We all have our own personal story. But Antonis's story is different. He has been through trial, pain, struggle, and agony for life and eventually returns again with strength, will, an effort for a new beginning through the gift of dance. Thank you, Antony, for teaching us all the time we are in the STORYTELLING team every Wednesday.

On the basis of Your life - Your Story Project organized a competition to select the best story. There were six countries cooperating in this project.

Each of them applied with two movies, their own two stories, some personal, some imaginative, some of the stories were made during the project.  The winning story was Hello my name is Antonis Stellas from the Greek team and he got a nice reward in the final project meeting in Celje -Slovenia.