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The Journey to Work project supports adults with mental disabilities in Belgium and Bulgaria through tailored social skill-building and employment exploration.
Social Skills Development: Participants engage in online exchanges, fostering interaction between people with disabilities and their care providers, followed by a real-world experience during an international trip.
Employment Exploration: Through experiential learning, participants explore job opportunities suited to their abilities and engage in a public debate with stakeholders on employment challenges, contributing to a broader understanding of regulatory issues.
By cultivating social and work-related skills, Journey to Work project promotes meaningful integration and provides valuable insights into supporting adults with mental disabilities in the workforce.
Reach out if you want to volunteer to translate during our on-spot activities in Belgium and Bulgaria, or to support our back-office in organising the activities under the project.
THIS PROJECT IS IMPLEMENTED WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE EU ERASMUS+ PROGRAMME.
On 8-10 October 2025 the managers and experts from the 3 partner organisations behind the Journey to Work, De Poel (BE), Bulgarian Association for Support of People with Mental Disabilities (BG) and TALKANTION (BE), gathered for their first in-person meeting.
Experts from the 3 partner organisations engaged in comparative analysis of the leguslation and practicalities for professional engagement od people with mental disabilities in Bulgaria and Belgium.
We visited six places in and around the city of Varna, engaging in different ways the workpower of differently abled people and turning them into the glue that sticks the community together.
After a month and a half of online preparations, the roles and tasks of the Project Management Team were approved, strategies and plans for quality assurance, risk management and communication were finalized. Journery to Work is now planned in detail, and ready to go!
The experts of vzw De Poel, the BG Association for Support of People with Mental Disabilities and TALKNATION asbl laid down the methodological framework for the key deliverables of the project - transnational peer exchanges, online and in-person, among people with mental disabilities. These promise to be empowering - and fun - for participants and lentors alike!
