V POMP – Supporting to young immigrants for better integration
Country: Slovenia
Organisation: Zavod MISSS
Dates: 2018
Number of participants: 155 participants
Youth Information tool:
Drop in centre, face-to-face information and counselling, language and computer literacy workshops, trainings, gaming, volunteers
Description: POMP is one of MISSS programmes that aims to reach out to first-generation immigrants and ensure their better integration by using youth information as a tool and outreach to individuals and groups of young people who have recently arrived in Ljubljana. The programme implements an integration workshop in elementary schools, intended to involve children and teenagers in the local school system and to provide them with knowledge of the Slovenian language. Furthermore, the young participants have access to information technologies for free, reading workshops and free entrance to museums, theatres, swimming pools, libraries and so on. This initiative has the advantage of motivating young immigrants to access education, inclusion and job-seeking. This project attempts to establish links with the immigrants’ home environment and home country, and also to involve family members in the process of integration, as they are important bearers of cultural and social values. Various workshops aiming to provide young immigrants with professional advice, intercultural communication learning, computer literacy and better general information provision are therefore also intended for their families.
More information:
Dušanka Tešić, Counsellor for Children, Youth and Parents dusanka@misss.org http://misss.si/programi/preventivniprogrami/pomp-psihosocialna-pomocdruzinam-priseljencev
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