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SPuK – Language and Culture

The SPuK project focuses on providing language and cultural training for unemployed asylum seekers and refugees, helping them to integrate into the healthcare sector. Over 27 months, participants undergo three qualification modules: an intensive language course, practical lessons in healthcare basics, and a traineeship accompanied by lessons. The program has formed 205 contacts between migrants and local healthcare providers, improving communication and understanding of healthcare procedures. The project empowers participants to pursue careers in healthcare, fostering personal sustainability and improving community integration.

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SPuK – Language and Culture

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  1. SPuK – Language and Culture Foundations for an effective health care Cultural mediators for effective and adequate health care In charge of the sub-project: Caritasverband für die Diözese Osnabrück e.V.

  2. SPuK – Language and Culture Foundations for an effective health care Target Groups: Unemployed asylum seekers and refugees with an unsecured status of residence who are interested in vocational qualification; for example- asylum seekers and persons filing a follow-up asylum application- migrants with a status of toleration or authorization according to §§ 53-55 AuslG (alien law)- (former) refugees of war and of civil war

  3. SPuK – Language and Culture Foundations for an effective health care Sub - project: Qualification Three modules Duration in total: 27 months

  4. SPuK – Language and Culture Foundations for an effective health care Sub - project: Qualification Module 1, duration: 6 months Intensive language course focussing on the sector of health care: „German Language in Health Care“ Period: 2 January 2003 – 30 June 2003 2 learning groups with 12 participants each

  5. SPuK – Language and Culture Foundations for an effective health care Sub - project: Qualification Module 2, duration: 9 months Lessons with practical component, „Introduction to the Basic Fields of Health Care“ Period: 1 September 2003 – 31 May 2004 1 learning group with 15 participants per week: 4 days lessons, 1 day practical training in hospitals

  6. SPuK – Language and Culture Foundations for an effective health care Sub - project: Qualification Contents of module 2: • - mediation of language and culture • training of interpreters • anatomy and theory of diseases • legal foundations • German health system • IT courses • guest observing and learning in a hospital

  7. SPuK – Language and Culture Foundations for an effective health care Sub - project: Qualification Module 3, duration: 12 months Traineeship accompanied by lessons Period: 1 June 2004 – 31 May 2005 11 participants

  8. SPuK – Language and Culture Foundations for an effective health care Sub - project: Qualification Contents of module 3: • - establishment of a contact office • employment as mediators of language and culture • public relations • presentation of the service of „Mediation of Language and Culture“ • four-month traineeship in hospitals and similar institutions.

  9. SPuK – Language and Culture Foundations for an effective health care Results and Experiences • 205 contacts between institutions of the regional health care system and migrants / refugees were accompanied by the cultural mediators • Gains for the regional health care sector: • - Saving personals time, especially doctors time • - Enabling successful communication around sensitive issues • Support of migrants/ refugees by explaining examinations and procedures • - Taking away responsibility from children

  10. SPuK – Language and Culture Foundations for an effective health care • Difficulties: • Uneven demands of minority languages (Russian and Turkish as most demanded languages) • - Sceptics towards the language skills of the mediators

  11. SPuK – Language and Culture Foundations for an effective health care • Sustainability of the service through exploring further possibilities, supported by the DP SAGA • - Networking among mediators • - Exploring further possibilities

  12. SPuK – Language and Culture Foundations for an effective health care • Gains for the target group: • “Personal sustainability” after taking part in the qualification measure • - Basis to get a traineeship • - Basis to look for different working areas in the health care sector • - Using short term opportunities in other EQUAL- and ERF-projects • - Looking for jobs, but on a more profound basis • - Access to IT-technologies

  13. SPuK – Language and Culture Foundations for an effective health care Results and Experiences Empowerment - Language abilities used in the community - Understanding and communicating the health care and the social system - The qualification measure as “one of the better times in Germany”

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