Programme for women strengthens competencies with inclusive learning
The project "Strengthening competences with integrative learning", or KompiLe for short, has now been relaunched: it is now also aimed at women on parental leave, in needy families, single parents, parents with small children or women returning to work. The aim is to work out a career perspective together with the women.
For this purpose, virtual group lessons of three hours each will take place three times a week in the first half of the year. The participants receive tablets on loan for this purpose. In addition, there are two individual coaching sessions per week, one virtual and one face-to-face, as well as two two-week phases of professional orientation face-to-face. The lessons provide an overview of the regional labour market and digitalisation. Current affairs and politics are also on the timetable, as well as job application training and individual support.
After the summer holidays, the participants either start an apprenticeship, a job or take part in an integration course with childcare. The measure, which runs until the end of 2022, starts on 7 February with 45 participants from all over Waldeck-Frankenberg and is carried out in Bad Arolsen, Bad Wildungen, Frankenberg and Korbach with 10 to 12 women each in this voluntary offer for the participants.
"We are glad that we have been able to expand the target group compared to last year's project to include women on parental leave," says District Administrator Jürgen van der Horst. The basic aim is to activate the course participants at an early stage through virtual training and thus prepare them for integration into the labour or training market. However, the concept at the time did not provide for childcare during the project. "KompiLe 2.0 now offers childcare during the internship phases and at the four training locations." In addition, the virtual training sessions are recorded and can be accessed on the internal network at any time. This makes it possible to catch up on missed lessons or repeat them.
A special focus of the training is on migrant women who have not yet been able to attend a language course in the last six years due to pregnancy shortly after their arrival in Germany. For them, the teaching phase of the training ends with a qualified language exam. Although they have now been living here for several years, they also lack basic knowledge about the labour and training market. A deficiency that KompiLe 2.0 wants to make up for.
"The innovative learning concept combines different qualification programmes and thus ensures a holistic approach to further education," explains Karl-Friedrich Frese, First District Commissioner of the district. "Thanks to the high proportion of virtual teaching, the digital skills of the participants are also strengthened and a partially existing low mobility is taken into account." KompiLe 2.0 not only increases the employability of the participants and integrates them into training or work. "The measure also enables them to participate better in social life and strengthens coexistence within the family.
The project is run by the district in cooperation with the Waldeck-Frankenberg Job Centre. It is implemented by DELTA Waldeck-Frankenberg GmbH together with the two vocational training centres for crafts in Frankenberg and Korbach. KompiLe 2.0 is funded with 270,000 euros from the special fund of the State of Hesse "Securing Hesse's Good Future", in the additional funding offer "Bridge Qualification for Women" of the Hessian Ministry for Social Affairs and Integration.