To get young adults with reduced work capacity empowered
There is a large number of young adults who have a form of befinfit called disability pension for young adults from the Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan). At present there are few activities to support these young adults to get an employment, enganging i studies or participaciting in meningful activities.
How shall we reach out and support these young people to be included in the society?
This challenge is a part of Openlab's Master's Course Challenges for the Emerging City.
To get young adults with reduced work capacity empowered
There is a large number of young adults who have a form of befinfit called disability pension for young adults from the Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan). At present there are few activities to support these young adults to get an employment, enganging i studies or participaciting in meningful activities.
How shall we reach out and support these young people to be included in the society?
This challenge is a part of Openlab's Master's Course Challenges for the Emerging City.
Disability pension for young adults is a time-limited form of benefit for young adults with a long-term reduction in work capacity. A prerequisite is that this reduction in work capacity can be expected to last for at least one year. The benefit can be granted at the earliest from the July of the year in which the individual turns 19, up until the month before the month the person turns 30. A period of disability pension may not cover more than three years at a time. But it is possible to apply for a new period when the previous one comes to an end. Despite the disability pension being a time-limited benefit, many young adults continue to receive the benefit until they turn 30.
When the individual is no longer entitled to disability pension, they are able to apply for sickness compensation. The purpose of the disability pension – beyond providing financial security in the event of reduced work capacity – is to encourage young people to be involved in activities during the period in which they receive the benefit. The idea is that the activities will have a positive impact on the person’s functional ability and improve work capacity.
Few studies have been conducted into the activities carried out within the scope of the disability pension. This means there is a lack of knowledge about what activities are offered and if the activities meet the intentions. A previous study has, however, revealed that comparatively few people participate in activities.
Despite this, there may still be individuals for whom sickness compensation could be avoided, at least to a certain extent, with more activities during the period in which they receive disability pension. The study showed that the activities do not, to a sufficient extent, lead to young adults approaching the labour market.
The difference between systems for disability pension and those for sickness compensation means that it is possible for people who have been on disability pension for 10 years, without any form of activity that could promote improved work capacity, to be deemed entitled to sickness compensation regardless of this.
Samordningsförbundet Stockholm stad: The coordination association of Stockholm city
Our organisation, The coordination association of Stockholm city, is gathering facts around problem areas in Stockholm and inspire the authorities to take action, start projects and try new ways to operate.
Financial coordination is a structure for collaboration and coordination between 4 authorities:
• Public Employment Service (Arbetsförmedlingen)
• Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan)
• Health and medical care service (Stockholms läns landsting)
• City of Stockholm (Stockholms stad)
The ideas The coordination association of Stockholm city gets will be presented for our owners, the 4 authotities. Hopefully they will embrase the ideas and use it to empower the Young audults in Stockholm city.
This challenge is a part of Openlab's Master's Course Challenges for the Emerging City. Students in the course will suggest solutions and present them to the challenge giver. Feel free to participate in the challenge by sharing your ideas or give feedback to the students' solutions.
Samordningsförbundet Stockholm stad
Pop-up space
This is an initial idea from students from OPEN LAB. We are still working to bring up new ideas/improving the idea.
We are looking for solutions, for those young people who have a feeling of exclusion from society, are not working or studying and/or looking for meaningful activities.
One of the ideas that emerged from our prototyping process is to create a pop-up space in public spaces where anyone can drop in, have a cup of coffee and be on their own for a moment. They could even chat with the staff and find information available on totems about activities young adults can engage themselves with.
Forever young
Digital platform for young adults.
This is an initial idea from students from OPEN LAB. We are still working to bring up new ideas/improving the idea.
We are looking for solutions, for those young people who have a feeling of exclusion from society, are not working or studying and/or looking for meaningful activities. One of our focus is to create a digital platform where these people can meet each other, find support groups and search for activities according to their interests and abilities. This platform would also help support groups to find each other and connect.
A CAFÉ
This is an initial idea from students from OPEN LAB. We are still working to bring up new ideas/improving the idea.
We are looking for solutions, for those young people who have a feeling of exclusion from society, are not working or studying and/or looking for meaningful activities.
One of the ideas that emerged from our prototyping process is to create a cafè. This will be similar to a co-working space as Open Lab. Many different spaces inside, such as a restaurant/café, an area where people can be among dogs and cats, a music studio, a baking lab, a maker space, etc. And, headphones available at the entrance, for those do not want to interact with others.
Be useful. Beeing usefull.
Be useful for a while. Beeing useful for a while.
This is a social concept that includes, on loose terms. (Not yet knotted, but at the same time, the idea turns away from preparation solutions such as variants of "meet and coffee" and "must-talk about without clipping over" and turns to the direction where strange things happen in something that needs to be done by weight and value. )
The benefit is to actually make a difference in a context for a while. The reward the individual experiences by doing something useful can provide incentives for participation with ever increasing frequency. It gives an increased interest simply to want to contribute, and to feel the satisfaction of having meant something. What this means concrete is up to each local organizer. I am convinced that when the prospects for opportunities are activated, concrete actions in concrete situations begin to appear. Tasks crystallize. Need always exists. I imagine that an effort can be from 30 minutes to a full day, from a full day to many days. The right is to participate. Obligations are only about following a supervisor's directive so safety is taken into account. I mainly think of physical chores.
Who is this good for? Society that normalizes for a while the cloudy and whimsical. Individuals who dare to participate, participate, in something, become someone to count on, make use of. (The need to make use of it is possible to observe neurologically.)
Monica Sperens
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