Aims & Objectives
The project will:
- Undertake detailed needs assessment with each participant to highlight barriers to training/employment, social problems, family and social circumstances
- Provide a personalised action plan for each participant, to include realistic targets
- Provide a series of pre-vocational and soft skills training through art-based initiatives to include: sculpture, ceramics, banner making, mask making, mural production, float construction
- Provide digital literacy and work based ITC work sampling through FIT NI
- Increase literacy and numeracy of participants through the use of traditional training and an arts-based approach i.e. literacy through story writing, play reviews etc
- Develop links with employers to identify individual employer’s recruitment needs and secure suitable work sampling opportunities for participants through Business In The Community
- Provide employability training i.e. job search skills, CV writing, information on recruitment processes and interview skills
- Provide advice and support for self-employment and business creation through a series of Entrepreneurship Workshops
- Develop links with policy-makers to feed project learning into mainstream activities and employment initiatives
- Work both Trans-nationally and Inter-regionally to share information, experiences, results and good practice
