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The Second
Chance School of Gijón was founded in 2001 and since 2002 is a member of the
European Association of Cities with Second Chance Schools. It is promoted by
the municipality of Gijón as a program of the Local Agency of Economic
Promotion and Employment and financed by the regional government (Principality
of Asturias), the municipality itself and it also uses European funding for
concrete actions.The Local Agency of Economic Promotion and Employment was
founded as a tool to materialize the different alliances and agreements among
the main socio-economic stakeholders with the aim to promote the economic
activity in the city, to foster the employment creation and to improve the
training of the workers and unemployed people. The Local Agency of Economic
Promotion and Employment is a reference in local development and it gathers the
local policies related to employment, training, commerce and tourism, economic
promotion and innovation.
The
Second Chance School of Gijón defines itself as a transitional resource to help
young people between 14 and 24, who have difficulties and want to be helped
giving a special attention to training and employment as an important resource
for socialization.
Its
objectives are:
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Facilitate the acquisition of key skills: motivation, autonomy, compliance
schedules and teamwork
•
Find ways attractive to young people with problems of adaptation through the
practice of relying on alternative models
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Promote adaptation-insertion in the different training systems
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Prepare for the job placement
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Organize individualized itineraries
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Promote equal opportunities
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Promote the participation in lifelong learning and mobility programs
The
Second Chance School of Gijón is aimed to prevent school drop-outs and mitigate
their effects; promote the insertion of young people with lower levels of
education and more difficulties of employability and their participation in the
municipal resources.
The
individualization of itineraries, a multidisciplinary team, flexibility of the
learning processes, the inclusion of specific measures of guidance and advice,
reduced groups (no more than 6 people per workshop/activity), the use of new
technologies (computer-equipped rooms with multimedia resources), language
learning and the possibility of stays in other countries and networking with
other social and community resources make the Second Chance School of Gijón a
pleasant place to come and learn and an important reference for the rest of the
educational and social community.
The
priority group of the school is young people with insufficient skills and
difficulties associated with absenteeism, early abandonment of education, poor
social and family supports, health issues, immigrants, etc…) that need specific
support.
It
is only municipal resource that offers a comprehensive timetable
(Monday-Thursday 09:00-15:00 and 16:00-20:00 and Fridays 11:00-15:00) and it is
an open space that the beneficiaries can use whenever they want to avoid “hanging
around” and the risks that entails.