ECCE AMA is an Equal project from VBJK in collaboration with the governmental agency Kind & Gezin (Child and Family). It will run until 2008.
Project aim:
Development of innovative training instruments that prepare low skilled men and women, and or men and women of ethnic minorities groups for a job in the childcare sector, more specific for a job as family day care provider-childminder (M/F) , or an employment in local childcare initiatives in disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
By this way we want to:
- raise chances of risk groups on the labour market, by means of recognition of obtained competences and adapted training
- raise the involvement of men in the nursery
- raise the quality of employment in this area
- raise the quality of these specific services
- raise the accessibility to nursery for socially deprived target groups
Subgoals:
To realise the main aim we propose the following operational objectives:
- Development of an innovative training instrument and guidance programme for family day care providers, by using a combination of class training sessions and an e- learning environment ("Blended learning"). We want to develop educational tools (bulletin boards, web-conferencing, chatboxes…) and a learning management system (learning content management, learning tracking, accompaniment of course participants in function of learning shortages…)
- In cooperation with the schools for adult education we want to work out and integrate topics as
- working with specific, disadvantaged target groups in a participative way, Empowerment of parents
- working aroud diversity
- optimise interaction and networking in function of an integral approach
- Further developing of a quality framework for the local childcare initiatives in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. We want to clear quality standards and develop an inspiring quality model, based on the expertise of the existing services. Thereby it must be reviewed to an evaluation instrument that dovetails the quality-criteria of nursery, training and employment.
- Videoproduction to support sensitisation activities around the importance of the accessibility of socially vulnerable parents to the nursery (to find a job, to follow a training, to find support in the education process of their child). We will co-operate with local actors, organisations, policy-makers.
Target group
Final target group:
- Women and men who want start as relief parents
- Disadvantaged groups on the labour market. (low- and unskilled women and men, and men and women of ethnic minorities)
- Socially deprived groups which difficult find access to the existing services for young children. (important edge condition to integration and labour market participation).
Intermediate target group:
- Services for family day care providers ( Diensten voor Opvanggezinnen)
- Social services or organisations which want to start up a local childcare initiative (Buurt en nabijheiddiensten).
- Career guidance councellers, trainers in the social profit and the child care sector.
- training organisations, education - and shaping institutions involved on nursery and education support.
- Local actors and services which are involved in the accompaniment of the final target group.
Contact: jan.peters@ugent.be or renilde.claesen@vbjk.be
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