The Nouvelles Chances project is led by Association Relience, Agen, France and works with partners in Spain, Romania and the UK to develop new skills, competences and life choices to a group of disadvantaged adults participants suffering health problems and other major exclusion issues. More than 52 disadvantaged adults (including those from UK partner organisations) follow an empowerment and skills training course that includes periods of work experience and practical vocational learning. Subjects covered are organic horticulture and agriculture, designed to give them skills for work and to motivate them towards self-sufficiency. They learn how healthy eating, regular exercise and regular daily routine can help with rehabilitation. Background: The project is born out of the need to find new ways to support excluded adults back into employment and training. After many years of suffering multiple barriers to exclusion including health issues, substance abuse, homelessness, mental health problems and prejudice, a very special programme of support is necessary to rebuild confidence and prepare a pathway to societal inclusion. In their home locality all partners offer specialist integration programmes and each have a recognised good practice to share at transnational level. All work with excluded adults but each offers a different approach to overcome the problems of exclusion. They share the need to create a package of support that is transferrable and works across frontiers, strengthening their own local practice to extend results and effectiveness. The project therefore works on two levels: - 1. A Transnational Partnership's staff team exchanges good practices, recognises innovation and builds a joint Toolkit for use in each setting. A project Manual is produced and shared through a Network that extends across boundaries and encourages joint further development, not just with partners but with their associated groups and wider contacts. - 2. Training Workshops for adult learners drawn from each partner's client groups. The workshops offer theoretical and practical training in vocational areas that include horticulture, agriculture and self sufficiency that covers poultry keeping, bee keeping, milk production and cooking for healthy living. Methodology to be used: There are two Workshops covering a 10 day and 5 day programme. They are hosted by Common Work in Kent, UK and Provita in Romania, respectively. They results in certificated recognition of skills, accredited by Common Work and a Europass Award is also earned by participants completing the training course. The Project Objectives include: - To create a Transnational Steering Group to develop a joint methodology for supporting combating exclusion through promoting healthy living and self-sufficiency. - To create a residential training course as a foundation for further learning, with work experience and practical exercises, elements on horticulture and agriculture for self-sufficiency and promoting healthy living. - To work with partners to recognise key elements for overcoming social exclusion, exchanging good practice and developing innovation in training styles, inclusion methodologies, guidance and support. The anticipated results include one new Network for Innovation, 5 organisations developing new social inclusion activities linked to skills for employment and the award of Europass to 52 participants. The project also produces a Certificate in Self-Sufficiency to be awarded to all participants completing the training course. Activities include two parts of a residential training course, one part in the UK and one in Romania, spanning different elements of self-sufficiency and organic growing, empowerment and healthy living. There are local focus groups in each country feeding into the Transnational Steering Group which meets 5 times with one meeting hosted by each partner. Results include: 1 - new Methodology for social and economic Inclusion. 1 - new training course in Self Sufficiency with 52 participants achieving Europass and the project certificate, "Nouvelles Chances" 1 - Network for Inclusion. 1 - Framework for a new Organic Growing qualification to be developed in future projects.
The project leader is the Association SAUVEGARDE who succeeded the RELIENCE Association and works with two English partners and one Romanian partner. Together they work to develop new skills and new opportunities for groups of users that have large Behavior ealth and are in contexts of marginalization and exclusion. More than 52 people suffering exclusion follow a training program and skills development including work periods alternating with periods of formal courses. The topics considered are biological and horticultural crop. These enable acquisitions necessary for the determination of diets that promote health and vegetable production unit creation and fruits promoting self-sufficiency. . Project History: The project was born from the need to find new ways to support adults excluded to find a job. After many years of many difficulties making obstacles to exclusion, including health issues, substance abuse, homelessness, mental disorders and releases of their families a very special support program is needed to restore confidence and prepare social inclusion. In their environment all partners offer specialized integration programs and each of recognized good practice to be shared at transnational level. All adults working with the excluded, but each offers a different approach to solve the problems of exclusion. They share the need to create a set of transferable media and work across borders to strengthen their own local practice to extend the effectiveness of their methods and results. The project worked at two levels: - 1. exchange of good practice between the teams of animators in a transnational partnership shype and Face book) method of cultivation, seed type, soil maintenance) exchanges of textbooks, lunar calendar definition, review on permaculture etc ... - 2. Training workshops for adult learners from groups of customers of each partner. The workshops offer training and education in professional areas including horticulture, agriculture and self-sufficiency: poultry farming, beekeeping, production of milk, vegetables according to organic farming methods and food processing. Methodology used: Two workshops were opened for programs 10 days, 5 days COMMON Work in Kent, United Kingdom and Romania Provita. They were formalized by the recognition of skills certified, accredited by the Joint Working Price and Europass. The steering group has met five times with a meeting organized by each partner. The project objectives included: - A transnational steering group to develop a common methodology to support the fight against exclusion by promoting healthy living and food self-sufficiency. - A training course with work experience and practical exercises on horticulture and organic agriculture for self-sufficiency and promoting a healthy diet. - Work with partners to identify the key elements for overcoming social exclusion, the exchange of good practices and the development of innovation in the fields of training, methods of inclusion, guidance and support. The expected results was largely achieved, or the creation of a new network of 5 partners to contribute to a strategy oriented towards innovation, the development of new social inclusion activities and skills for employment. The Europass certificate was awarded to 52 participants. On Monday, August 29 the SAUVEGARDE Association gathered at the Maison Relais NERAC, its local and transnational partners enrolled in registered shares OPPORTUNITIES NEWS program developed by the adult module Month of October 2014 to August 2016. The established relations between the teams and users will continue beyond the program. The gardens of the Maison Relais and the CHRS CEHRESO are now well into production. Maintenance crews are at work. The users of these institutions now have access to meals and breakfasts made collectively in each of the two institutions. Users retain very good memories of mobilities conducted in the UK and Romania, the first opportunity for some to travel abroad and exchange on vegetable food and production.