In this year students have been complemented with practical training in a company lumbrerense
The Director General of Pensions, Assessment and Inclusion Programs, John Brown, the mayor of Puerto Lumbreras, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, along with the councilman of Social Policy, M ª Angeles Tunisia have closed the second edition of the course Social Skills with the delivery of diploma.
The course, which has had a budget of 21,000 euros and was developed in 150 hours, is intended for people at risk of social exclusion and is included in the training project 'Springboard' funded through the Institute of Murcia Social Action, under the Ministry of Social Policy.
The recipients of the project in this edition have been 8 lumbrerenses that meet certain requirements or special situations such as periodic economic benefit recipients, women with family responsibilities are not shared, people from dysfunctional families with poor social skills or training levels with limitations the daily personal development.
"With this second edition of the project continue to support and open new opportunities for people vulnerable to falling into social exclusion, creating an emergency plan that allows learning and lumbrerenses reintegration of these people," says the mayor of Puerto Lumbreras, Pedro Antonio Sánchez.
The methodology of this project was purely participatory in order to improve and promote social and personal growth of students.
Through group dynamics and performances, participants have conducted workshops for personal growth, socialization, professional skills and work and employment.
The main novelty of this second edition has been conducting business practices.
This bloc, organized in 50 hours of lessons divided into 14 sessions, has allowed the students to implement the social skills they have acquired in the course.
The company you have played this work has been the Supermarket Guirrete of Puerto Lumbreras.
The municipal mayor, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, stressed that "it is a privilege that students have been able to implement social skills in a business in Puerto Lumbreras.
The practical nature of this issue makes this type of education framed in the Project Springboard acquire educational value to students approaching the job market. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras