The Institute’s mission and vision are based on the development of human potentials whereby the accent is on the provision of services in the field of humanistic sciences for different target and age groups. On the behalf of the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs, experts working at the Institute perform special counselling and experts’ work in the field of occupational rehabilitation in close cooperation with the Employment Service of Slovenia and the Pension and Disability Insurance Institute of the Republic of Slovenia.
Furthermore, the central activities of the Institute are based on educational and advisory services and the development and the implementation of social innovations, as well as on the research in the field of human resources.
INTEGRA Institute is also highly active in the field of community development and has founded and implemented numerous projects, among others an employment centre for people with disabilities.
The Institute is an official member of numerous associations as well as counselling expert groups both at national level (Central Labour Office Rehabilitation Committee, LAS – Advisory Group of Drug Prevention, Social Chamber of Slovenia) and abroad.
The Institute regularly employs seven professionals in the field of special pedagogy, occupational therapy. Besides, it also serves as an education centre for students of Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy, Faculty of Sport and Faculty of Education.
Inštitut je ustanovljen kot strokovni neprofitni zavod za področje izvajanja socialnih storitev, izobraževanja, rehabilitacije in trga dela. S svojim poslanstvom in zagotavljanjem storitev posredno deluje na širokem področju krepitve socialnega dialoga, aktivnega državljanstva, integracij - zlasti na trgu dela, predvsem pa razvoja socialnih inovacij in njih implementacije v skupnost.
Z zagotavljanjem strokovnih in drugih specialističnih storitev na področju zaposlitvene rehabilitacije, skupnostnih ter socialno varstvenih programov, izvaja med drugim vrsto izobraževalnih seminarjev, delavnic, predavanj, svetovanj za strokovnjake različnih strok in razvoja človeških virov nasploh – uporabljajoč moderne, inovativne in izobraževalno-sistemske pristope in metode pri delu s skupino in posameznikom.
S svojim strokovnim delovanjem, zlasti pa težnjo po inovativnosti ponudbe in programov, je tesno vpet tudi v evropske integracije, zlasti na področju izobraževanja odraslih.
V inštitut delujemo specializirani strokovnjaki s področij:
• razvoja človeških virov
• treninga socialnih veščin
• doktrine socialne in delovne rehabilitacije v zaposlitveni rehabilitaciji
• psiho-socialnih in dinamskih pristopov pri delu s posameznikom in malo skupino
• socialnega managementa
• oblikovanja timov in razvoja timskih veščin
• programov train-the-trainers (usposabljanja trenerjev za različne programe)
• socialnih inovacij
• kvantnega učenja
• razvoja in raziskav
Zaposleni strokovni delavci so zavezani nenehnemu strokovnemu izpopolnjevanju in dodatnemu izobraževanju.