On the mountain. (usc) The European Social Fund (ESF) also supports measures for reintegration into the labor market in Amberg. This currently happened for a qualification measure to become a nursing assistant at the ISE language and education center in Amberg. 13 women and five men went to school for nine months. After successfully completing the course, you now have very good career prospects.
The Amberg-Sulzbach job center provided co-financing. As its director, Sonja Schleicher, reported at the certificate award ceremony, one participant, Ivonne Sommer from Freudenberg, a single mother of a nine-year-old boy, used the ESF Bavaria funding program “KAJAK AS-AM III”. Behind this abbreviation lies the title “Combined integration efforts for single parents and young people in work and training, supplemented by childcare”.
With this program, the job center has already looked after a total of 82 single mothers and fathers and children over the age of 15. According to Sonja Schleicher, “KAJAK AM-AS III” was able to get off to an optimal start thanks to the experience and successes of the two previous projects I and II. “The ESF Bavaria funding measure was opened to all single-parent benefit recipients in the Amberg-Sulzbach job center’s area of responsibility in order to benefit from its full potential,” said Schleicher. This is reflected in the positive interim balance. “On the one hand, this is due to the motivated participants, but also due to the work of our experienced coaches,” reported Schleicher.
After the certificate presentation, she presented Ivonne Sommer as an example of the success of this measure. The trained baker recently worked in various jobs, was out of work for a long time due to a serious traffic accident and then kept herself and her son afloat with part-time jobs. She stayed at home with her son for four years and was therefore unemployed. “The job center analyzed my personal situation in detail and looked for an individual solution for me,” said Sommer on the occasion of the certificate award ceremony at ISE.
Schleicher is pleased about the success of the measure: “On April 15th she can start working part-time as a trained nursing assistant in a home in Amberg. From the new school year, when her son can use full-day care at the middle school in Kümmersbruck, Ms. Sommer will be there Ability to work full-time.” According to Sommer's descriptions, it was not easy to attend the nine-month course at ISE and at the same time organize the care of his son with friends. “And if there was no other option, the boy was looked after by ISE employees during lessons. “I am very grateful for that,” assured the newly qualified nursing assistant.
With the knowledge and skills acquired during the ISE course, the course participants were able to take up employment subject to social insurance contributions or to take up one-year or three-year training to become a state-certified nursing assistant or a state-certified geriatric nurse at a vocational school.
Experience has shown that a certain number of ESF nursing qualification course participants transfer to the ISE vocational school. The fact that, in view of demographic change, course graduates have good career prospects in nursing homes or outpatient care, for example, and can finally finance their own living is also an incentive to continue training at the ISE geriatric care school.
For the report
Hubert Uschald