This program has a budget of € 17,500, plus another € 2,000 in scholarships for assistance to programs and activities.
The action is being coordinated by the company Lorca Iniciativas El Gigante, and contemplates the work of a large team made up of Social Workers, job counselors and street educators.
The Councilor for Social Services in the City of Lorca, Fátima Mínguez, has reported that 105 lorquinos of gypsy ethnicity are benefiting from the Gypsy Development Plan 2017. This is an initiative launched by the Department of Social Services that is framed Within the Operational Plan and National Plan for Social Inclusion of Spain, co-financed by the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality and by the Family and Equal Opportunities Department of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia.
The Edil de Servicios Sociales has explained that the objectives of the program are, on the one hand to raise the educational and socio-labor level of the participants in the project and their families and, on the other hand, to promote integration and social incorporation through training.
Fátima Mínguez has detailed that the number of recipients is 105 participants: 51 in the line of educational monitoring and 54 in the improvement of employability and social aspects, and the main interventions are being carried out with the families of the Social Work Unit of San Pedro (High districts) with the realization of integrated itineraries of educational, social and labor promotion.
This program has a budget of € 17,500, plus another € 2,000 in scholarships for assistance to programs and activities.
The action is being coordinated by the company Lorca Initiatives El Gigante, and contemplates the work of a large team made up of Social Workers, job counselors and street educators.
The Councilor has indicated that the program is launched today and will be operational until May 31, 2017. Among its main actions include the following:
Individualized Tutoring Sessions, in material of competential labor orientation
Diagnosis and socio-labor employability.
Design and scheduling of the itinerary.
Tutorials of labor itinerary.
Workshops "Basic personal skills".
Workshops "Professional Competences".
Workshops on "Digital competence oriented to the search of employment".
Itineraries of educational promotion, actions to develop for the planning of the follow-up, support and educational guidance to the students.
3 days of coexistence (beginning program, ½ program and meeting final evaluation).
3 monographic courses on Social skills and communication for employment for participants of working age from 18 to 45 years.
Placement of the classrooms of the Iniciativas El Gigante, SL training center for the development of the extraordinary activities proposed.
3 days of leisure activities and free time on Saturday for 50 children and young people participating in the program.
Support of the Iniciativas El Gigante Foundation for the realization of activities: School support program for children of families from 6 to 16 years, to be developed at weekends.
Basic Workshop of Social Networks, focused on employment.
New Module of work: "Housing and habitat".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca