Social Inclusive Skills for Health Professionals in European Level

Start date 01-09-2016–End date 31-08-2019

EU Grant–180.186,00 €

Programme–Erasmus+

Key Action:

Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Action Type:

Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Countries covered–4

Coordinator

Recep Tayyip Erdogan Universitesi

Zihni Derin Eğitim Kampüsü Fener

53100 Rize

🇹🇷 Türkiye

Coordinator Type: Higher education institution (tertiary level)

Phone: +904642238100

Summary

Due to recent social changes (migration, mounting poverty, etc.), health services, promoting qualified, safe and social inclusive service by competent health workers (doctor, nurse, healthcare social worker, midwife) within vocational education. Educational needs gradually become more important, and call for need for profession-specific content, and social changes call for inclusive education and training. In addition, sustainable update, consolidation and deepening of knowledge is needed. This requires health professionals to maintain lifelong learning.Human crisis emerged as a result of migration crises has following effects on providing health services: • Misinformation in terms of communication with disadvantaged groups as a result of complex or deficiency of training content towards disadvantaged groups. • No specialized training content of social work skills development and communication while providing health services to disadvantaged groups• Health professionals are aware of social changes but there is no intervention guidelines while working with disadvantaged groups• Social inclusion issue requires specialized training while providing health service to disadvantaged groups • Regarding social integration and psychosocial state of disadvantaged groups, it is of utmost importance not to expose social exclusion while receiving health service.Currently, health professionals who do not have such a training background need specialized training content. For this reason, there needed to be a training tool with open source code in European level prepared for health professional to enhance their social work and communication skills. Project team developed an “Audio-visual catalogue: Training Tool of Social Inclusive Skills for Health Professionals.” There were 4 partners in this project and were from Turkey (the coordinator), Latvia, Ireland and Czech Republic. Project outputs were developed in partners’ languages, and intellectual outputs of the project shared and will continue to be shared with health institutions displaying same profile. There were 5 workpackages with 3 intellectual outputs (report, curriculum and video). First and last workpackages lasted throughout the projects, whereas 2, 3 and 4th workpackages were technical ones followed by 4 transnational meetings of which the first one was kick-off, and others aimed to monitor, discuss and evaluate project activities. As a result of this project, public and private hospitals, professional associations, health centers, community organizations, public and private centers of training in public health settings, indirectly migrant and disadvantaged groups were targeted. Their social inclusive skills in assisting disadvantaged groups were improved. Their entrepreneurship and professional skills were also be developed. WEBPAGE: https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/projects/search/details/2016-1-TR01-KA202-035286

Partners

AKLUB CENTRUM VZDELAVANI A PORADENSTVI 🇨🇿 Czechia

Říční okruh 26

794 01 Krnov

🇨🇿 Czechia

Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise

Phone: +420554618000

BIEDRIBA EUROFORTIS 🇱🇻 Latvia

ANNINMUIZAS BULVARIS 38-37

1067 RIGA

🇱🇻 Latvia

Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise

Phone: +37127763451

SMASHING TIMES THEATRE COMPANY LIMITED 🇮🇪 Ireland

COLERAINE HOUSE COLERAINE STREET

7 DUBLIN

🇮🇪 Ireland

Partner Type: Non-Profit making cultural organizations

Phone: +35318656613

Results

Practical & reusable resources for the practitioners

• Output 2. Curriculum: VET Curriculum of Social Inclusion and Communication for Health Professionals

  Description

  This output is the result of “WP3”. The project aims to develop an “Audiovisual Catalog: Social Inclusion and Communication for Health Professionals" with the curriculum to assist health professionals and trainers in the sector. As stated before, there is no specified curriculum in the literature that can be applied to health professionals to develop their social inclusive skills while treating disadvantaged groups. The curriculum will contain definition of communication, basics of communication, communication in hard cases, communication with disadvantaged groups, workplace and time, basics of social work, social work skills, types of disadvantaged groups, working skills in hard cases.

  Type

  Curriculum

• Output 3. An audio-visual training video

  Description

  This output is the result of “WP4”. The project aimed to develop an “Audiovisual Catalog: Social Inclusion and Communication for Health Professionals" with the curriculum to assist health professionals and trainers in the sector. However, the curriculum should be guided with real pictures and videos. This output has two way benefit. In one way, health professionals benefit from real materials; in another, the material serve as a training tool for further trainers.

  
  

  Therefore, the audiovisual format has been considered the most effective and appropriate tool for this training matter. In order to favor the linguistic diversity, the utilization of this output for other countries and the transnational initiatives, this output, it will develop in languages of the partners and in English.

  
  

  Here is the link for the training video:

  http://inclusivehealth.eu/inclusive-health-training/

  Type

  Video

Research material bringing forward the reflection in the sector

• Output 1. Analysis Report Analysis and Training Needs for the Development of Social Inclusion and Communication for Health Professionals at European Level

  Description

  This report aims to specify the needs of health professionals in terms of social inclusive skills. It is aimed to collect quantitative and qualitative data about the training needs of health professionals by way of questionnaires, discussion groups and in-depth interviews.

  Type

  Research publications

  Contents

  • O1 Analysis Report.pdf