CARAVAN PROJECT: DETAILS OF THE PROPOSED TRAINING PROGRAMME
- Knowledge, skills and competence to be acquired:
The main professional field of the Project Caravan is the
social-pedagogic care-taking in a home for unaccompanied minor
refugees. Organisation of every days life, cooperation with social,
legal, medical and psychological specialists is part of the general
goals of the project as well as the support in educational
questions and intercultural coexistence of boys and girls from many
different countries and ethnic groups.
The trainee will participate in every part of the work of the
professional staff of the project: Case work and personal
care-taking of minor refugees (asylum case, medical treatment and
prophylaxis, school matters and educational support, leisure-time
activities, education to tolerance and democratic responsibility
etc...); group work with a concentration on intercultural
education; administrative framework of the project and its
organisational, financial and legal conditions.
- Detailed programme of the training period:
The first three weeks are designated to the introduction to the
project, to its rules and conditions. After that period the intern
should help and accompany the caretakers of the project in almost
every aspect of the projects tasks, always, of course, according to
his or her ability and capacities. In the beginning the intern will
work mostly in one-to-one situations (for example: escorting minors
to medical institutions) The intern will take part in the weekly
team meetings and daily change of personnel.
After the intern has gained some reliability he or she will be
able to fulfil some tasks more independently. Escorts to medical
institutions, learning aid for minors, leisure-time activities for
small groups of minors and similar activities should be planned and
carried out by the intern under the supervision of the
professionals on duty and with regular reflexions with his or her
personal mentor.
In the end of a long term internship we like to ask the intern
to plan and carry out a small project of his or her own (for
example: A table-tennis tournament together with a neighbouring
youth-centre, or a video/photo/painting project of the inhabitants
or something like that...)
- Tasks of the trainee:
The intern should do as much as possible the same work as the
employees of the project do (as described above), but on a
controlled and monitored level, according to his or her abilities.
The regular reflexion meetings between the trainee and the personal
mentor should help to find out the trainees interests, strengths
and personal limits. He or she should learn how to act within a
multi-professional und multi-cultural team. The trainee will have
about one nightshift every two weeks where he or she accompanies
the professional care-taker from about 17:00 in the afternoon until
11:00 in the next morning.
The main fields where the trainee will perform tasks
independently are learning aid and escorting youngsters to external
institutions.
- Monitoring and evaluation plan:
There is a structured schedule for the whole period of
internship that helps the intern to get orientation and clearness
from the beginning to the end of the training period. The mentor of
the intern is pointed out from the very beginning, regular meetings
with the mentor are obligatory for the whole time. There will be
additional supervision for the intern carried out by a colleague
from another project of the organisation (psychologist or social
worker). The intern has to make daily notes of the experiences he
or she has made during a working day. This logbook is the base of
the regular reflexion meetings with the interns mentor. After about
one month the intern is asked to point out a field of special
interest within the project (according to his or her profession)
and together with the mentor a special program for this field has
to be worked out and absolved by the trainee (for example:
co-attendance of one or two of the minors in the project) The
training should be completed with a detailed report of the whole
period.
Contact: Otto Hollerwger, [email protected]
