CURRICULUM

All over Europe, social, vocational or educational counsellors and advisers are frequently confronted with clients showing basic skills deficiencies. There is widespread need to detect such problems, react adequately (i.e. without offending the social and cultural integrity of clients) and give efficient support.

The Curriculum is therefore targeted at any social and vocational counsellors working in the following areas:

• integration of long-term unemployed people into the labour market
• counselling of disadvantaged people (showing accommodation problems, debt problems, drug/alcohol problems)
• counselling of ethnic minorities
• giving advice to recruits during military service
• counselling migrants and asylum seekers
• counselling and assisting prisoners and former prisoners

The Curriculum provides sensitization on functional illiteracy, as well as long lasting transfer of information, taking into account respective personal and professional backgrounds of the counsellors. More generally, it helps organisations offering counselling and advice to increase their professionalism and deliver more efficient service to respective clients.

Seven Language Versions

The Curriculum is available as pdf document for free download in seven languages: