Activity 3: Skills and qualification

skills progression into employment

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 1: Work placements

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 2: Volunteering as a route way to employment

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 (child care)

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 3: Skills training (other)

OCMW Kortrijk & Mentor vzw:

Host of several visits from project partners to social economy initiatives in Kortrijk

October 7th 2010: Ahoi and Mobiel … ?

Action 4: Social enterprises and community service learning programmes

OCMW Kortrijk: preparative talks with Mentor vzw

Mentor vzw: presentation of suggestion of a cross border tailor made skills audit on neighbourhood level

Monitoring Committee 4, Day 2 (March 30th)

Action 5: Skills audit

Ongoing evaluation of key performance indicators by co-workers from OCMW Kortrijk and Mentor vzw (local)

Action 6: Evaluation of skills training methodologies, highlighting good practices

With the support of: