In February there was a kick-off meeting for the core trainers in the Swedish CONNEXT for inclusion. There is representation of professionals from different parts of the municipality working with newly arrived migrants and refugees, both youngsters and adults, which is a good platform for cooperation and dissemination of the work in the project. Here is a short introduction of the Swedish core trainers:
Petra and Sofia, teachers from the adult education department working with Swedish for immigrants.

Jenny and Anna-Maria from Värmland Tilsammans where they will develop new methods for Swedish for adult’s education. Värmland Tillsammans is an ESF-project working with 10 municipalities aiming at facilitating labour market integration for newly arrived refugees or migrants who are far from the labour market.

Saleh from the labour market and social services administration, department for integration, social welfare and employment, Jobcenter, where he works in the labour market unit with newly arrived refugees and migrants in the projects Värmland Tillsammans and Insteg Karlstad.

Pontus from the labour market and social services administration, department for integration, social welfare and employment, Värmlands Framtid, where he works in a unit with support for young NEET’s.
Eva from the labour market and social services administration, department for newly arrived refugees where who works with networks as a way of supporting unaccompanied minors and newly arrived youngsters.

Daniel from the labour market and social services administration, department for newly arrived refugees where who works with supporting unaccompanied minors to become independent citizens.

In the picture you can see the core trainers, the project manager Marie and the steering group members Gunilla, Jennie, Kristian and Malin.

Text: Marie Andersson, Karlstad municipality, Sweden

Picture: CONNEXT for inclusion