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Facilitating the socio-professional integration of refugee learners

A 24-hour training course aimed at developing the digital, linguistic and citizenship skills of refugee women, beneficiaries of subsidiary protection or other residence permits, wishing and able to integrate the labor market in France

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Educational goals

This course enables learners to:

  • Project themselves professionally in the host country
  • Remove peripheral obstacles with the support of mentors (housing, health, childcare, etc.)
  • Develop their autonomy in the context of training and professional integration
  • Acquire basic digital skills
  • Facilitate their socio-professional integration
  • Integrate their environment by expand their knowledge in French
  • Identify and promote their transversal skills
  • Do a professional immersion and define their professional project

Program

This training is composed of 6 units and includes a 3:30 reception time in a group, and a 3:30 final assessment time in a group.

Unit 1 - Getting started with digital tools (in partnership with Reconnect)

21 hours in a group in person | Assessment: MCQ, learning apps, satisfaction questionnaire

  • Using a computer in daily life and to search for a job and/or training:
    • getting started with the computer and the operating system,
    • navigating the desktop and getting familiar with computer settings,
    • creating and saving a folder and a document,
    • sorting and organizing your folders,
    • browsing the internet and making specific searches,
    • learning to write professional emails,
    • using Google Translate and Google Lens,
    • following a training session on Zoom and interacting,
    • completing and transforming a document into a PDF,
    • using Google Drive and Google Suite for collaborative work (Power Point, Word).
  • Securing web browsing (fake news, passwords, internet security and e-parenting).
  • Learning independently on a selection of digital tools.

Unit 2 - French as a Foreign Language and French as a Language of Integration Workshops — FLE, FLI

77 hours in group in person | Assessment: MCQ, tests on the online learning apps platform

  • Becoming familiar with the vocabulary related to socio-professional integration in France.
  • Introducing yourself orally and by telephone (formal/informal).
  • Working on the tenses of the present, the future and the past tense (written/oral).
  • Understanding a schedule and reading instructions.
  • Writing a formal or informal message (for emails, SMS, letters...).
  • Filling out forms (paper or digital).

Unit 3 - French and global citizenship

28 hours in a group in person | Assessment: satisfaction questionnaire, learning apps exercises

  • Becoming aware of your place as a citizen in Bordeaux and in France.
  • Reviewing the basics of citizen rights and duties (outings and games).
  • Activating a professional and personal network.
  • (Re) Mobilizing intercultural skills.
  • Strengthening the knowledge of eco-gestures and the protection of the environment.

Unit 4 - Development of autonomy in learning: learning to learn

14 hours in a group in person | Assessment: satisfaction questionnaire, multiple choice questions

  • Identifying your learning profile
  • Acquiring the vocabulary of knowledge, learning, and memorization
  • Discovering the mechanisms of the brain and the influence of stress in learning
  • Training your memory through games and discovering tools for organization and memorization

Unit 5 - Life and professional integration in Bordeaux

31:30 in group face-to-face/evaluation: MCQ, satisfaction questionnaire, tests on the learning apps platform

  • Getting around and finding your way around Bordeaux Métropole,
  • Managing and understanding a schedule,
  • Writing your resume, applying, writing a cover letter
  • Identifying and stressing your skills,
  • Discovering the rules that are implicit in a professional context,
  • Knowing the basic documents related to the world of work (ads, pay slip, employment notice, etc.),
  • Preparing for a job interview,
  • Visiting companies and training centers,
  • Finding out about jobs that recruit (Cap Métiers) and mechanisms to support self-entrepreneurship CIDFF (Women's and Family Law Information Center) and SINGA,
  • Exchanging with female entrepreneurs with a migration background
  • Seizing resources and tools useful for professional integration.
  • Assessment and conclusion of the in-person group training to assess the level of satisfaction and acquisition of new skills of the trainees.

Unit 6 - Internship in a professional environment

66 hours spread over 3 weeks

  • Defining and agreeing on the main missions in advance with the tutor and the learner.
  • Introducing yourself at work.
  • Making a weekly review during the internship.
  • Evaluating your internship.

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