The Department of Social Welfare of the City of Totana has launched, with the company "Cultural Habitat," the Course "The care of elderly and dependent persons in the household", a training activity aimed at a group at risk of exclusion , specifically the immigrant population residing in the town of Totana.
The purpose of this training is to provide a training opportunity suited to their characteristics, considering include counseling, literacy, language training, and other content deemed appropriate for training or job placement in the field of local services and specifically in the care and elderly care and dependent.
This action is part of the generic project of social services that the City Council is made and in particular it is intended to encourage the promotion and personal development, improving the skills and capabilities of individuals and groups, in order to encourage and facilitate self-promotion social inclusion and employment.
The recipients of this action are the beneficiaries of some kind of benefit (IMI, APIS, social protection, etc.) as well as persons on social integration programs of social service centers.
The training course aims to equip participants with skills and basic social skills, as well as specific training tools, to ensure their greater and better training for social integration and their access to employment in the area of care and elder care dependent.
The course will run until January 20, 2010 in two parts, one to work the basic content of the profession of nursing care, as listed below, and another to work individually and through group tutorials, on content designed to advance the promotion and personal development, improving the skills and capabilities of individuals and groups, in order to promote personal advancement and facilitate social integration and employment.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana