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The organization

was founded in 1997 by an elderly educator who considered the ideas of the latter board members. These ideas were connected with child care and social services mainly based on international experience.
Since 2001 the organization has been rated an outstandingly public utility organization.

Our goals- recorded in the Deed of foundation

We assist the disabled with training them, creating the suitable conditions for them and also giving them the necessary support so they can manage in the labour market and find relevant job opportunities.
We provide preventive and corrective services for children and their families so they could stay within their families, grow up and get an optimal individual development.

Our mission

The Blue Bird Foundation is striving for an accepting and secure society where individuals have the chance of self-realization and freedom of choice.

Our services

Tit Bit-family friendly restaurant (social enterprise)

In 2007.we launched a family conscious restaurant in order to create employment for those handicapped we trained in LIFT project. At this time there are seven of them in our restaurant. Three hearing-impaired cooks prepare the meals under Both Sándor master chef‘s control. We also have a woman with learning difficulties who secures all kitchen activities and the meal is served by our three disabled waiters. We aim to present to society that these people are able to show a very high quality of work if we provide the environment that suit them.

What we offer:

-Health oriented selection of meals (healthy materials, gentle methods)
-On weekdays our guests can choose from three different menus (traditional, light, vegetarian) which vary day to day.
-We intend to reintroduce old traditional peasant materials (corn flour, grits, buck wheat) as well as the elements of reform cooking.

Our special services:

 We provide a family-friendly environment. This means for example indoor playing area for small children, feeding chairs, children sets, baby room etc.
We are also prepared to organize exclusive parties (birthdays, children celebrations, corporate conferences). Above all these we do advance ordering and take away.

Juke box and family daycare

We have been running the Juke box and Family daycare services in Szekszárd since 2001. The main goal of these services to relieve families with small children.  In the family daycare we provide regular child minding for 12 small children considering the special needs which arise from the parents side (for example flexibility in time and care). In additional to this  in the frame of the Juke box we can provide child minding for a couple of hours while the parents can care of their business do the household chores or get involved in recreation.

Target groups:

-parents involved in higher education
-parents getting or seeking job before their children reach the age of 3 years
-parents with special shift work (changing hours, frequent extra tasks)
-single mothers
-children who can not be integrated in normal groups (diseases, disabilities, different    development, immature social relationships)
Our effort is to create a familiar, confident, relationship with the families so we can optimally develop the children’s individual.

Supported Employment

Supported employment is a special service and an effective employment, which considers the mutual requirements of the jobholder and the employer alike.

Our goal:

Is to provide individual help for the handicapped people (at present mostly mentally disabled) so that keeping their human dignity they could establish successfully in long-term jobs according to their needs.

Our target groups:

-mentally disabled
-those who completed elementary or special school
-those suffering from epilepsy
-those with hearing deficiencies
-those with part-skills deficiencies

We worked out a special method for the clients who consult us in the frame of the Supported Employment. The steps are: assessment (visiting the families), preparation (an important element is work test), job search, training and follow-up.

Programs for women

"Children and career"

The goal of the program:
We helped the women with low educational level that have been out of jobs because of their children to get beck to the labour market. The participants could choose from 3 different trades (social attendant, social assistant, shop assistant). They were provided with psycho-skill development, psycho-social support, practise-oriented training, and also with child minding so they could remain in the program and establish a job.

Our achievements:
After their successful exams 70% of the participants had taken up jobs so far. The program ended in January 2007.

"miNŐség"

The goal of the program:
To support women who aimed to start a business concern or already had one and wished to improve it. The project provided a complex strategy that contained individual help to increase women’s chance in the business and to give them special knowledge in this field.

Timing of this project:
Launch: 01.02.2007.    Finish: 31.01.2008.

Transit employment

In the frame of this service we supporte unemployed people or those with low educational level or non-marketable qualifications and people with amassed disabilities, or living with handicaps to enter to the labour market and to integrate to the society in Szekszárd-Tolna region. After getting a training that provided by the foundation the participants are put to a special work place where our social attendants can observe them for a while and when they are ready we integrate them to the labour market.

The aim of the service:

To give the members of the target group marketable qualifications and key-skills required by the primary labour market.

"ÉRT-M"
Timing of the project:
Launch: 01.02.2005    
Finish: 30.11.2006

Our achievements:
36 people got involved in the program, 33 of them had successful training, and 26 of them got integrated to the primary labour market.

"LIFT Likeliness-Integration-Full employment-Training"

Timing of the project:
Launch: 01.06.2006    
Finish: 28.02.2008

Our achievements:
36 people had been involved in this program and 28 of them had been put to work.

Special labour market services

Timing of the project:
Launch: 01.06.2008.  
Finish: 31.05.2010.

Our achievements:
36 people got involved in the program, 33 of them had successful training, and 29 of them got integrated to the primary labour market.

Our supporters and partners:

- European Union and Hungarian Government
- National Employment Public Foundation
- Tolna County Labour Centre
- NESsT
- National Civil Fund