It’s truly an enterprise – towards a model of family empowerment.

Field

Employment integration, skills assessment, creation of social enterprise

Description

The project “It’s Truly an Enterprise” focuses on the concrete possibility of building a well-designed, less episodic and less improvised pathway for a “After Us” model for people with disabilities, strongly rooted in employment, starting from their individual and family resources, but without the family becoming a risky vicious circle. Read more

Role

Promoter

Partners

Impact

Involvement of two associations for a total of 13 family units, skills assessment for 13 people with disabilities (cognitive and sensory), creation of a social enterprise proposal through the drafting of a BMC (Business Model Canvas) and related Business Plan.

Where

Naples

It’s Truly an Enterprise

The project “It’s Truly an Enterprise” is a path aimed at creating a balanced mix between social engagement and business activities, with the associations, individuals, and families involved not as passive subjects of welfare measures, but as active actors and protagonists. Twenty families, an analysis of resources and vocations, the development of a potential business activity, distribution of business burdens, creation of community cooperatives, delivery of a final business plan, and a clear process outlining what is needed and what must be done so that “our children can work.”

The goal is to move beyond a purely workshop or occupational therapy dynamic and rehabilitate the core principles of social enterprise: redistributing the burdens and benefits generated by work and ensuring economic sustainability.

The goal is to create a prototypical approach for the creation of a social enterprise from the ground up through a few steps:

  1. Startup and needs analysis (context study of the association, building the workgroup, understanding the condition of family units).
  1. Skills assessment (Individual analysis of the skills of each person with a disability; Evaluation of the diagnostic framework; Assessment of individual autonomy (ICF) / informal skills / level of education and training)
  2. Idea orientation (Analysis of the local productive context; Case studies; Identification of the reference sector)
  3. Participatory design (Listening and exploration; Collection of proposals; Sharing, selection, and choice of the project proposal)
  4. Evaluation of F.G. resources (Survey of available economic resources (E.R.) and human resources (H.R.) of the entire group; Economic evaluation of resources in relation to the project idea)
  5. Accessibility and aids assessment (Individual analysis of the use of IT / technological aids; Evaluation and solutions for overcoming architectural barriers; Evaluation of outputs)
  6. Participatory business plan: (Construction of the business plan, Creation of the mechanism for participation from each family group and/or association (through E.R., H.R., time, means, tools, etc.)