Kompetenzagenturen Motto of the work: reach I hold I empowering
Kompetenzagentur Sinzig – Bad Breisig – Remagen I Barbarossastr. 43 I 53489 Sinzig I www.kompetenzagentur.com In responsibility of: Catholic Church St. Peter „Kompetenzagentur“ WHAT‘S THAT ?
The competence agencies (Kompetenzagenturen) programme is part of the EMPOWERING YOUNG PEOPLE initiative with which the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth – is sending out a clear message for a strong youth policy and better integration of young people in Germany. The programme is funded by the European Social Fund (ESF)
» The competence agencies (Kompetenzagenturen) programme will strenghten the youth policy and better integration of young people. The EMPOWERING YOUNG PEOPLE initiative links five programmes in more than 1,000 locations across Germany into a strong network and offers youths with poor employment opportunities and young people with an immigrant background expert social, educational and professional support and assistance.
» The first „Kompetenzagenturen“ (15) started in 2002 - after an evaluation in 2006 (9 out of 10 young people sucessfuly found a job, a school,… via the Kompetenzagentur) another 180 projects have been initiated all over Germany. Kompetenzagentur 2011 195 PROJECTS IN GERMANY
Who is involved in the projects at federal level?
Federal Ministry of Family affairs, Senior citizen, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ)
Federal Agency for Family and Civil Society (BAFzA)
„Service office for youth social work“ by order of the federal office (they provide the professional support)
Scientific evaluation by INBAS GmbH and InterVal GmbH
Advisory board for the Iniative EMPOWERING YOUNG PEOPLE initiative Kompetenzagentur TARGETS AND ADVISED TARGETGROUPS
Target groups
Teenagers and young adults
who are reliant to a high extent on support based on social disadvantages or individual prejudices who have "got lost" in between leaving school and finding a job and who can not (any longer) be reached by the conventional service areas (school/vocational education and the promotion of employment according to the German Social Security Code SGB II and III). Main Targets
social and professonal integration career advancement assessment of skills performing mobility finding and closing gaps in the transition from school to work Main method I OUTREACH APPROACHES OF YOUTH SOCIAL WORK
a) go to the places where the young people spend their leisure-time (shopping areas, sports fields, youth centres,…) b) get in contact – ask for the needs c) make offers
Action maxims of „outreaching youth work“
low- threshold oriented towards the needs and the surrounding environment voluntariness respect for each other protection of confidence – but not completely anonymous intercultural and gender specific soft skills Main method II C A S E M A N A G E M E N T M E T H O D
GET IN CONTACT
Assessment Secondary preventive supporting measures Supporting measures Analysing problems and ressources
Crisis intervention Networking Councelling Community work • Identify gols • Support requirements • Planning the supporting
Repeating the assessment Measures, projects ... Networking controlling Targets: Clients are helping themselves Community work
Evaluation Main method III N E T W O R K I N G
Who are the most important partners to get in contact with and to guide the young people to? Competence agencies promote and improve the cooperation and coordination between the institutions and stakeholders after leaving school: Youth migration services Youth work Youth welfare office cultural institutions (museums, music schools,…) politicians firms, companies, business job centres clubs and associations (sports, culture, music,…) schools municipal administration Where the project is placed
RHEINLAND-PFALZ & the district of Ahrweiler GERMANY & the district of Ahrweiler Kompetenzagentur OUR DISTRICT IN NUMBERS
Eight special administrative districts Three towns – Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler 27.464 inhabitants – Remagen 16.134 inhabitants – Sinzig 17.490 inhabitants
Rural environment 789,99 square kilometres 128.063 inhabitants Foreigners men (4.721) 7,54 % Foreigners women (3.945) 6,03 % Unemployment : 4 % Holiday region The district Ahrweiler „YOUNG“ LABOUR MARKET
September 2011 – 291 young people - age 15 up to 25 years - are reported unemployed (we definitely know that there are more young people without a job – not everyone reports to the labour office
16 % of the reported young people have a migration background
58 % are men (girls/women avoid the registering and for girls/women it`s easier to stay with their family)
10 % don`t have a so called „school-leaving qualification“
72 % didn`t finish or didn`t start a „on the job training“ Where is the „Kompetenzagentur“ located? Example of successful networking COOPERATION BETWEEN YOUTH WORK AND A MUSEUM
Why to work with a museum?
The young peole we work with have often tried to solve an age- appropriate life task and have got into a crisis or a dead-end street. By staying and working in a museum (unusual place) their everyday lifes get enriched because the participants – who are elsewhere rather reclusive – become able to integrate their renewed communicative abilities in their lifes. To work together with a museum is a possibility to correct the stereotyped ideas of society towards the group of unemployed young people. Important is it to take the youngsters as artists doing professional work and in this way points them a special place in the public. The youngsters often also have a low self- esteem. To really work with artists, to stick to the exercises until the end, be reliable and then play on stage in front of a unknown public empowers them a lot. The young people get to know a „new world“ and the people from the museum also can broaden their horizon (win – win) Skills and abili es assessment
Many ways to work out social skills and other abilities. What do we do? a) Biographical guided interviews b) „ Mini assessment“ – The so called „gang day“ (4 times per annum in cooperation with the Youth migrants services and the youth workers. What kind of skills do we want to work out?
• motivation • sense of perception • ability to work as part of a team • motor activity • creativity • ability to handle conflict situations • communication skills • reliability Another example of successful networking
Youth work goes international
Statements: Mobility is a right for all young people, Empower and including those with fewer opportunities or living in motivate to make the move disadvantaged situations. (short term EVS) Mobility is considered in all its diversity: from local to international mobility and from geographical to Motivate to social and cultural mobility. work voluntarily on local level and guide to So what do we do to improve international mobility? youth work We cooperate with youth work. Our partner is accredited as a sending organization for the Get in contact and European Voluntary service (EVS). This allows us and build up relationship the young people to broaden the horizon, learn about different countries, life-styles, cultures and in the end this is crucial to the construction of personality and also plays a role in building self- esteem. A few pictures …some more pictures? Finally our handout for would-be-employers sorry – we don`t carry this in English!