Rehabilitation and Vocational Training Center

The Irene Rolo Foundation is accredited as a Local Resource Centre of the IEFP network, constituting a support and assistance structure, in the field of Professional Rehabilitation, for the intervention of the Vila Real de Santo António Employment Service, whenever the need for specialist intervention is justified in the context of the Personal Employment Plan defined for each recipient with a disability and incapacity.

Actions undertaken

Information, Assessment and Guidance for Qualification and Employment (I.A.O.Q.E.) OBJECTIVE: To support people with disabilities and incapacities in making appropriate vocational decisions, providing the necessary information for this purpose, promoting the assessment of their functionality and incapacity and the determination of the means and support considered essential for the definition and development of their personal employment plan. TARGET AUDIENCE: People with disabilities and incapacities, unemployed or looking for their first job, or employed, registered and referred by the IEFP.

Placement Support (A.C.) OBJECTIVE: To promote the insertion of people with disabilities and incapacities into the labour market through a mediation process between people and employers. TARGET AUDIENCE: People with disabilities and incapacity, unemployed or employed, who wish to change jobs, registered and referred by the IEFP; employers who wish to hire workers with disabilities and incapacity.

Post-Placement Support (A.P.C.) OBJECTIVE: To provide technical support to workers with disabilities and incapacity and their employers, aiming at maintaining employment and career progression for people with disabilities and incapacity, through specialized interventions in the field of professional rehabilitation. TARGET AUDIENCE: Workers with disabilities and incapacity, self-employed or employed by others, who need support to maintain or progress in employment, registered and referred by the IEFP; employers who hire workers with disabilities and incapacity, under a normal or supported employment regime, promote internships financed by the IEFP, IP or employment-insertion contract (CEI) for people with disabilities or keep workers who have acquired disabilities in their service.

Team / Resources

Multidisciplinary technical team

• Psychologist
• Occupational therapist
• Higher education and training technique
• Specialized doctors according to the intervention to be performed

Telephone contact: 966 830 955

With a view to training socially responsible citizens who contribute to building a better society, the Irene Rolo Foundation's Rehabilitation and Professional Training Center seeks to involve trainees in activities that promote environmental and solidarity values, with a social impact on the community, namely through activities such as:

• Collection and collection of paper (newspapers, magazines, photocopies, scrap paper) with a view to delivering it to the Food Bank against Hunger, which will be converted into food products to be distributed to needy people in the community;
• Participation in campaigns to collect plastic bottle caps, delivering them for recycling and using the sales proceeds to cover the costs of therapy for a child with multiple disabilities in the municipality of Tavira, and also collaborating in the "From Bottle Cap to Bottle" campaign by the Algarve Oncology Association.