Activity 3 Skills and qualification skills progression into

Activity 3: Skills and qualification skills progression into employment

Action 1: Work placements OCMW Kortrijk: Work placement program in child care: 8 child care centres with a total of 11 places 8 beneficiaries in the program, 2 will start any time now Mentor vzw does not participate in this action

Action 2: Volunteering as a route way to employment OCMW Kortrijk: volunteering opportunities to prepare beneficiaries or as a way to gather work experience 1 beneficiary: voluntary work in preparation of a work placement program Mentor vzw: learning from partners about voluntary work

Action 3: Skills training (child care) OCMW Kortrijk: inventory of § existing trainings § needs in child care sector § expectations of future employers Mentor vzw: Testing several training contents for beneficiaries in child care work experience places June 2011: evaluation of the modules by beneficiaries and supervisors in child care work experience places

Action 3: Skills training (child care) Modules that have been piloted: • • Working in child care (6 hours) Development of the child (15 hours) Social skills (6 hours) Learning to learn (3 hours) 8 beneficiaries are attending the different modules on a weekly base

Action 3: Skills training (other) OCMW Kortrijk: guidance of 4 beneficiaries towards tailor made training of Mentor vzw on filming, editing and photography § Infosession for beneficiaries by OCMW Kortrijk § Training is being developed by Mentor vzw § Voluntary work during Easter holiday (Tapas Deluxe, activities for children in neighbourhood centre V-tex)

Action 4: Social enterprises and community service learning programmes OCMW Kortrijk & Mentor vzw: Host of several visits from project partners to social economy initiatives in Kortrijk § October 7 th 2010: Ahoi and Mobiel § …?

Action 5: Skills audit OCMW Kortrijk: preparative talks with Mentor vzw: presentation of suggestion of a cross border tailor made skills audit on neighbourhood level Monitoring Committee 4, Day 2 (March 30 th)

Action 6: Evaluation of skills training methodologies, highlighting good practices Ongoing evaluation of key performance indicators by coworkers from OCMW Kortrijk and Mentor vzw (local)

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