The STARTUP course is about Opportunity. The opportunity for disabled people to live with dignity, independence, and respect. It is about Dreaming: of imagining a different future. STARTUP is about Change: a change in the way disabled people are commonly viewed in society and about Promoting much more positive images. And STARTUP sets challenge: a challenge to the low expectations and beliefs about what people can and cannot do and one that seeks to inspire action to increase the solidarity, autonomy, equity, and dignity of disabled people.
STARTUP aims to support the development of self-employment and small business ownership opportunities for people who are much less likely to be expected to want to run their own business. By setting out an approach to supporting disabled people which enables support workers, job coaches and enterprise facilitators to develop an entrepreneurial mind-set and to advocate in practical, representative, and political ways.
STARTUP recognises that developing entrepreneurial initiatives for and with disabled people requires resilience, motivation and a belief in the potential and ability of the disabled people they support so this module seeks to unpick these issues and acts as a starter, a “Catalyst”.
It sets out the core values a person working with disabled people will identify with, will intuitively already have, and will be willing to develop to be successful in this role. A positive attitude and the resilience to find the right resources to relate to and see the potential in the people we come across; recognising and accepting diversity; supporting and mentoring disabled people to become entrepreneurs.
Lessons:
1.Introduction
2.Values
3.Enterprise development
4.Support / facilitation
5.Reflective diary
Languages: English (EN) , Spanish (ES)
