SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, February 5. (EUROPE PRESS) –
Starting in March, Tenerife will have the Entrena Empleo program, aimed at improving the employability and job placement of long-term unemployed women who are disconnected from the labor market after having dedicated themselves to motherhood or caring for family members.
The initiative is promoted by the Santa María la Real Foundation and is co-financed by the Cabildo de Tenerife, through Fifede and the European Social Fund.
This same project is carried out in parallel in five other Spanish regions such as Castilla-La Mancha, Community of Madrid, Extremadura, Galicia and the Basque Country. To do this, the Foundation has the co-financing of the European Social Fund, within the Operational Program for Social Inclusion and Social Economy (POISES), in its priority axis 6, and the economic collaboration of various public administrations.
FIRST STEPS IN 2021
The first phase of Entrena Empleo was carried out last year and consisted of carrying out social research on the psychosocial effects produced by long-term unemployment derived from maternity or caring for family members and its influence on access to the job market. job. To do this, more than 2,000 surveys were carried out on long-term unemployed women in the Canary Islands, Castilla-La Mancha, the Community of Madrid, Extremadura, Galicia and the Basque Country; 40 interviews with social agents involved and five discussion groups.
The study shows that 60.9% of the women surveyed spend more than five hours a day caring for minors or elderly people in their care; and that these responsibilities or family burdens mean that 7 out of 10 do not look for work on a daily basis. 71.6% of those surveyed consider that having been in charge of the care of people in their care has provided them with new knowledge. However, when asked if said learning could be useful to them and would they know how to use it to find a job, the proportion drops to 48.5%.
With these results, specialists from the Santa María la Real Foundation have designed social intervention methodologies with long-term unemployed women, attending to the needs detected and the skills that the women themselves have acquired or reinforced during motherhood and child-rearing; or during care for relatives, the elderly and/or dependents.
PILOT PROJECTS IN 2022
This year the second phase of the project will begin, which will consist of the development of twelve pilot projects in the Canary Islands, Castilla-La Mancha, the Community of Madrid, Extremadura, Galicia and the Basque Country to help a total of 240 long-term unemployed women with dependents to reactivate their job search in today’s labor market.
The pilot projects will be carried out in the following locations: Tenerife, Bilbao, Fuenlabrada, Lugo, Mérida and Toledo. The first six, between March and June; the remaining six, between September and December.
In the first pilot project on the island of Tenerife, 20 places will be set up, aimed at women between the ages of 18 and 60, who are long-term unemployed and who have relatives (ascendants or descendants) in their charge and care.
Among all of them, certain groups with special needs will have priority, as determined by the investigation. Thus, for example, on the island, women with children under the age of five in their charge and care will have priority.
During these three months, the participating women will have the accompaniment and advice of specialists from the Santa María la Real Foundation to promote a comprehensive job search plan in the current labor market. They will attend virtual meetings three days a week (from 09:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.) to develop job orientation activities that allow them to reactivate their job search strategy, reinforce their transversal skills and digital skills, improve their positioning and promote their insertion. .
OPEN REGISTRATION
Women interested in participating in the program, totally free, have until March 11 to fill out the registration form enabled on the web https://www.entrenaempleo.org/es/register
Parallel to the objectives established for each phase of the project, Fundación Santa María la Real promotes the creation of a network of public and private entities that work on employment and women’s initiatives, with the aim of sharing experiences and good practices, generating synergies and collaborations, and encourage the co-creation of new methodologies and innovative initiatives in social intervention with long-term unemployed women.
There are currently eleven member entities: Action Against Hunger, Cáritas, CEAR, CEPAIM, the Federation of Progressive Women, the Spanish Network of Entities for Employment, the Rais Foundation, the Solidarity Association with Single Mothers of Madrid, the Candelita Center of Madrid, the Victoria Association of Fuenlabrada. and the Malvaluna Association of Mérida, in Extremadura.
The entities that so wish can now join the network through the project website: https://www.entrenaempleo.org/es They will be able to participate in semi-annual meetings (virtual or face-to-face depending on the evolution of the pandemic) to connect with different agents and entities from the public and private spheres that work with long-term unemployed women; make their projects and initiatives visible, share knowledge and experiences; access more resources and information, and participate in new innovative initiatives to favor the insertion of women in long-term unemployment.
