The 85 students of the Mixed Programs of Employment and Training 'PMEF' and of Integral Attention to the Dependency in Social Institutes 'AIDIS', have received this morning the visit of the mayor and president of the Agency of Local Development and Employment ADLE, Ana Belén Castejón, and the manager of the Agency, Manuel Mora.
These are programs that offer training and paid internships.
Those responsible for the employment agency have come to know first-hand the use of these courses, which are in their equator, and the concerns of the students, as well as congratulate them on Christmas and the new year.
In the Youth Resource Center of Quarries the mayor spoke with the 45 students between 25 and 54 who participate in the three specialties offered by the initiative 'AIDIS': gardening, socio-health care for dependents and socio-educational intervention with people with a disability
This theoretical and practical training program, co-financed by the European Social Fund and managed by the ADLE, gives them the opportunity to receive theoretical training and work at the same time, charging the interprofessional minimum salary as stipulated for these programs.
The students perform their work from Monday to Friday in the Occupational Center of Quarries, in the case of students of socio-health care for dependents and socio-educational intervention with people with disabilities;
and in municipal facilities in the case of gardening students.
The mayor has wished that this course supposes "to open a window that gives light to his professional perspective".
It has also encouraged them to maintain contact with the Agency and use it to find a job after this formative year and find out about the financing possibilities that exist for entrepreneurship and the creation of companies.
The manager wanted to highlight the involvement of the students, as informed by the trainers, and has insisted that the ADLE will put all their resources to help them, but in the end their future depends largely on themselves.
Finally, students have intervened to express their concerns about their future work to which the mayor has responded by offering to do everything possible, through the ADLE, to help them, and giving them a brief list of the resources that the agency puts at their reach they should be those who request it.
Next they have visited, next to the councilor of Decentralization, Juan Pedro Torralba, to the 40 students and students of the 'PMEF' of the modalities of auxiliary operations of pavement and urbanization and of gardening in Park of the Rose.
There they have approached to see the tasks that were performing improvement and maintenance of this park, an activity that responds to the vindication of the neighbors to improve this public space, as recalled the mayor.
The remodeling and maintenance needs have been coordinated between the neighborhood representatives and the Decentralization councilor, and it is expected that they will conclude in June, when the course ends.
Course participants are people under 30 who are part of the Youth Guarantee program, and who are registered in the Social Security since December 7 with a training contract of 6 months charging 75% of the Minimum Interprofessional Salary .
The program is co-financed by the European Social Fund.
COURSES FOR 2018
The manager of the ADLE has taken the opportunity to announce the perspectives and projects of the Agency for next year, in which a course of Teaching for Vocational Training will be launched for the first time, the catering courses will continue to function, with a a high level of insertion, Mora recalled;
besides courses of electrical networks and plumbing among others.
In terms of mixed training programs, the AIDIS and Tres Tenedores courses will conclude in March, and that same month a course of Integral Attention to Dependency in Socio-Health Institutions will begin, which will be done in collaboration with ASTUS.
The previously mentioned PMEF course will conclude in June.
It is expected that 160 people will benefit from these mixed programs during the next year, which could be extended according to the call for new programs by the Employment and Training Service of the Autonomous Community.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena