Guidance to find a job is essential for a population that, on many occasions, finds itself immersed in a vicious circle from which it cannot escape, many times due to a lack of knowledge of the tools available to them, other times because they do not know where they can acquire training and others not knowing where to go.
Santa Cruz wants to reinforce that part of the work with the population of the capital that most needs this orientation, that is, people at risk of exclusion, and, for this, it has launched an employment plan called Project of Proximity and Socio-educational Accompaniment in the Social Services, framed within the Santa Cruz Impulsa strategy.
With this program, 60 people will be trained to carry out these labor orientation tasks on the street, of which 30 will be hired for seven months, starting in January, to carry out the work for which they will be trained for two months. This project is possible thanks to the financing of the Cabildo de Tenerife, through its second employment plan, which as a whole is an investment for the entire island of around nine million and of which Santa Cruz receives around 583,000 euros, which means 96% of the financing of the project.
Yesterday, the mayor, José Manuel Bermúdez, and the president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín, welcomed the 60 students selected to be trained as job counselors. The project, in which the Development Society and the Social Action area work together, has selected people with intermediate or higher education, since “they also need support and a first push to enter the labor market, to that they make a curriculum ”, defended the insular president.
The councilor of Santa Cruz pointed out that “the main objective of this initiative is to strengthen the care provided by municipal social services and promote employability in a sector as key and necessary as social care.”
Pedro Martín recalled that, “since 2020, the year in which we launched this plan for the first time, we have promoted the hiring of 1,455 unemployed people, to which must be added the 620 stops that are expected to be hired this year” with the third edition.
For her part, the island councilor for Employment and Socioeconomic Development, Carmen Luz Baso, stressed “the great acceptance that the employment projects that we are promoting from the Cabildo are having, to the extent that they not only favor hiring, but also At the same time, they provide unemployed people with new tools”.
The councilor of the IMAS, Rosario González, explained that “nine social educators, another nine social integrators, five counselors and seven administrative assistants will be hired.”
The mayor delegate of the Development Society, Alfonso Cabello, confirmed that Santa Cruz has already presented this same project to the third call for the Employment Plan of the Cabildo, for which they have requested 851,960 euros.
