Land supports DELTA's further training for women with 300,000 euros

Strengthening competences through integrative learning - that is the goal of a new training programme of the district-owned DELTA Waldeck-Frankenberg. The innovative learning concept is being funded by the state of Hesse with 300,000 euros.

Due to the Corona pandemic, the situation on the labour market has become tense and unemployment figures are rising - also in Waldeck-Frankenberg. According to an assessment by DELTA, this affects women in particular, who, according to a study, take up short-term jobs more often than men - and are thus more quickly exposed to the risk of becoming unemployed in the current situation.

For this target group, DELTA has developed an innovative learning concept in which 75 women have been qualifying since the beginning of the year. The special feature: The coaching, which will take place over a period of one year, combines different qualification programmes and provides a holistic approach to further education that prepares the participants for a professional job or training.

Through virtual teaching, video meetings and coaching and few face-to-face events, the programme is not only corona-compliant - it also develops the women's digital skills. "We attach a lot of importance to ensuring that the further training is tailored precisely to the skills and talents of the participants - and therefore also offer a lot of individual one-to-one coaching," says DELTA Managing Director Volker Heß. "It is also important to us that we create a kind of bridge qualification for the women, i.e. that the different offers do not just stand on their own, but build on each other."

From the special fund "Securing Hessen's Good Future", the project "Bridge Qualification for Women" is one of 64 in Hessen to be funded with 300,000 euros. The funding is provided as part of the 2020 training and qualification budget and in addition to the funding of 726,800 euros that has been committed to date.

"The Corona pandemic is not the first to show the need for such customised qualification offers, but it reinforces it," says the First District Commissioner of the district Karl-Friedrich Frese. "The current tense situation on the labour market makes it clear once again that we have to react to special situations with custom-fit educational offers." The DELTA bridge qualification for women gives the participants a new professional perspective.

The project is implemented by the social work staff of DELTA Waldeck-Frankenberg - and is also supported by long-standing partners of the employment company: the Waldeck-Frankenberg district crafts association with the Berufsförderungswerk für Handwerk und Industrie e.V. in Frankenberg and the Berufsförderungswerk des Handwerks gGmbH in Korbach.