HUMAN-NET

The HUMAN-NET Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County Human Resources Development Foundation has been dealing with the supply of professionals in the region, examining and analysing them - notably the newly graduated professionals’ situation and opportunities - from different angles and according to different structures since its establishment in 1996. The main goal of the founders was to help the economic and social development of Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County without the interference of the government and political parties, as an independent organisation. The main focus has been the development of the county’s human resources. Our mission: „The development of the region’s intellectual capital with committed, highly qualified young professionals at European skill level and with diverse language skills, who will be actively involved in the implementation of the development process.” Our core values • Commitment to quality • Professional authenticity, independence • Commitment to the region’s development • Commitment to European integration • Wide range cooperation, „bridge” role • Partner-oriented thinking Our strategic goals • To facilitate the development of the region, mainly the development of regional human resources. • To become a „centre” for young professionals, university or college students, to help their entrance to the labour market, and to distribute information, skills, opportunities, that will help their integration. • Active participation in the European integration process. • The distribution of the „commitment to quality” conception as a core value to young professionals, to cooperating organisations and to the NGO sector. To help the development of the NGO sector with the distribution of related knowledge and experiences through cooperation inside or outside the sector. Services of the HUMAN-NET Foundation: 1. Labour market-oriented training: designed for the similarly positioned group members to process the unemployment/job search experience in a protected environment. The common actions, the personal examples, the group activities, the new knowledge and methods will contribute together to the exploration of the individual’s inner values, to the development of self-respect, to the strengthening of inner motivation, and in total to the successful participation in the labour market. We offer the following services: • Mental health training • Motivation and communication training • Job searching training • Grant application writing training 2. Labour market-oriented Informational Centre: designed to distribute extensive professional information to the interested employees. The Centre gives an opportunity to acquire self-information and distributes employment related and career building knowledge through organised activities with the help of the professional leader. We offer the following services: • Providing information: connection building and • Preparation and increasing opportunities: work-, job searching-, career orientation-, and rehabilitation consultancies, self-surveys • Facilitation of starting work at a work place: exploring and registering work places, training, advance studies, re-training opportunities, • Follow-up: 3 month long follow-up activities for the clients, who participated in the project The „labour market present” of the Foundation INFORMATION SERVICES Our goal is to spread actual information about the region’s labour market, job opportunities, training opportunities, implemented developments, and the advance of our programs to the members of the target group (unemployed people with university or college degree and other higher education qualification) and for the participating partners. LABOUR MARKET SERVICES Work consultancy Goal: This form of consultancy helps the participants to get a job and to retain a job through the recognition of the labour market process, the unravelling of employment promotional and prohibitive factors, the obviation of employment blocking factors, and the necessary supporting materials. Through the consultancy the participant will be able to get confirmation about his/her notions, can disperse his/her uncertainty and doubts, will be able make a decision about his/her career considering his/her acquired knowledge, skills, work experience, can create his/her plan to get a job, and will be able to implement the plan. Career orientation consultancy Goal: This form of consultancy can help the participant to form an idea about career goals and notions, to make decisions about his/her career, and he/she will get support through the way to realise the goal, and create an action plan. Thanks to the consultancy the participant will be able to realise his/her most suitable occupation, and consciously plan his/her career path. Job search consultancy Goal: This form of consultancy can help the participant in the planning of job searching actions, knowing and learning the effective job searching techniques (CV, labour market marketing, interview preparation, etc.), and he/she will get practical help for intensive job searching activities. Job searching services are available in three different form: • personal job search consultancy, • spreading job search knowledge through group activities, • job search training (duration: 3-5 day) Job Searching Club The participants of the Club will pursue intensive job searching activities for 3 weeks, and they will receive technical (writing CV’s and job searching letters, copying job searching documents, job searching related phone conversations) and professional support (discussing personal job searching problems, learning and practicing job searching techniques, positive verifications). „My fair lady programme” – job searching programme for women Goal: this module is a special job searching club, which will have an added element: the implementation of a planned and thoughtful way of life and financial management in the family. We will be able to explore the current conditions, to discuss the problematic areas in the group, and we will use the income as a motivational tool and as the tool of future improvements in the situation (what is now, and what happens if...). • the development of the participants’ expression, elocution, self-assessment, and forming a reasonable self-concept, • forming a good first impression with the help of exterior factors (clothing, hygiene, dentistry, hair-do) „Path finding programme” – Career orientation training Goal: The general goal of the training is strengthening the young people’s identity through the development of career orientating skills. The specific goal is to make them realise their abilities, skills, knowledge, motivation and opportunities in education. „What are my abilities, skills?” „What motivates me?” „What are my options in further education?” We try to help youngsters to choose a school or career path, and to strengthen their professional identity through developing their decision making, self-recognition, and creating the fitting career direction. „Wheel programme” – Key skills training Goal: During the group activities we try to indentify the key skills, the unemployed can use in any work related task. The training mainly concentrates on the problem solving process, the quality of communication, the cooperation skills and the justification and evaluation skills connected to responsibility. During the training sessions we will implement tasks where the participants can experience a life-like problem solving process, and we will prepare them for independent work tasks. „Trace module” – Job retention training Goal: To help the participants in retaining their jobs through developing their knowledge, and help them practicing and developing their abilities into skills. Especially: how they have to adapt to the work place, etc. We would also want to prevent dropouts from the different training sessions, which we count as a work community. Labour market tools and adult education consultancy Goal: Providing information about the MMK training participation, application, MMK aid, other labour market related tools, financial aids and MMK organised programmes (Especially: job fairs, career expos, „You decide about your future!”, etc.). Information distribution about social associations Goal: Providing information about founding and operating social associations according to the Hungarian Legislative Act 2006 X. Community Programmes Goal: Developing and supporting the self-organising skills of people, small communities and neighbourhoods. Developing self-advocacy and adapting it to the group’s interests. The other goal of the event is the involvement of individuals in group activities, to find a community for them, and to take part in cultural events and relaxation activities. The secondary goal is to lead the community members to a new approach, which will lead them form the „me” to the „us” view, start to think as a community, and search for the community’s advocacy tasks. The community development will use the group’s benefits: personality development, decreasing the psychosocial burdens, communication development, building relationships, the operation of the existing network of members. The participants will be using and learning about group rules and roles, which will be transplanted to the everyday life. Mental health training Goal: The training is strengthening the participant’s personality and attributes, and developing them with the goal of getting employment for them. Activities: Self-recognition, communication, self-confidence development, stress-management, mobilizing inner resources. We will deal with the client’s personality and communicational problems, the negative state of mind as the result of unemployment and tensions. The group members’ self-esteem will be developed through the course, their job searching knowledge will develop and they will be able to get a job easier. The method of group activities: non-directive conversations, situational and role playing games, personal experiences, questionnaires, attitude scales, etc. the double group leading tasks will be performed by leaders with the needed professional preparedness and experiences. The group activities’ effects will be measured by the evaluating forms, filled out by the participants. Motivation and communication training At setting up this programme we used the EURA Regional Development Corporation’s (Rinköbing County, Denmark) motivation and communication methods, used in different member countries of the European Union. The motivation and communication training’s main goal is to help the participants in building up their self-confidence, the effectiveness of their social interaction, and the development of their self-advocacy. This is a basis for the participants to make decisions in their personal relationships and at their work place in the future. The participants can learn about communicating and making (new work place) in different situations through situational games. Job search training The module’s goal is to teach the participants new job searching techniques, which will help their return to the labour market, and to help them to learn self-skill related techniques also. Urban Family Care Services The HUMAN-NET Foundation has been operating the Urban Family Care Services in Nyíregyháza since the 1st of August, 2005. The goal of the services, tasks: The Family Care Services’ task is to implement family care services, to maintain care coverage and to organise activities. According to the Social Act’s 65th § (2)-(4) paragraphs the Family Care Services’ tasks are: a. collecting social data and other information to ensure the adequate information level for the care coverage beneficiaries, b. organises psychological, legal and other consultancies, c. organises the active aged, but unemployed people’s cooperation programme, d. organises programmes (recreation, camping, child care) for the population, e. helps to maintain individual’s and families’ cooperation level, f. helps the development of the organisation and operation of specific supporting and self-helping groups. The Family Care Services can extend its services to specific services beyond the basic ones. Beneficiaries According to the 65th paragraph of the Social Act, the Family Care Services has to be maintained on every populated place and has to be available for every member of the municipality’s population. According to the agreement between the Local Government of the County-level City of Nyíregyháza and the HUMAN-NET Foundation, the Foundation is responsible for the Family Supporting Services in Nyíregyháza except for the Kertváros area, which is the responsibility of the Joób Olivér Institution. We are informing the clients about where and how they can get help at their residence or in the county, if they are not the residents of Nyíregyháza. The most important tasks of the family caregivers: 1. Developing the clients’ problem solving, conflict management and conflict resolving skills. 2. Facilitating the effective and humanoid operation of institutions, which are supporting people financially, spiritually and with different services. 3. Connection building between clients and supporting systems. The individual case management is the central task of the family caregivers, their most important methods are the problem solving model, and the crisis prevention model, and the knowledge and appropriate use of these. The methodology of complex family support • Providing information: helping the clients to reach the appropriate sources and services. • Consulting and supporting conversation: this is applicable if the client comes to us with concrete problems (problems with way of life, marriage, financial, legal, health damage problems, problems with disadvantages on the labour market or on a social level, and resolving conflicts) We are trying to monitor the clients and his/her families’ situation, lifestyle, way of life, to find the functional disturbances and the sources of conflicts, and then we will be able to find problem solving alternatives and can help in finding the goal(s). After this we will choose the tools of complex family support: a) Social-, life skills-, mental health consultancy, supporting conversations. b) Mediation: intervening to the dispute to make the disputing parties to realise their differences, lead them to compromises, and to find a solution which is the best for all of the parties. c) Legal consultancy. d) Psychological consultancy, the development of the families’ connection building, family therapy, conflict resolving activities. e) Distributing mainly food, clothing and furniture donations. f) Informing the clients about the social, family supporting and social security services. History of successful grant applications and implemented projects With our application programme we are reaching everyone from the youngest to the oldest people, and our services and events are available for every member of the society. The main goal of our implemented actions is to provide different innovative services which lead to positive life changing events. According to our experiences, sometimes, if the target group requires it, we have to use unusual ways of cooperation (especially as a consortium). Sometimes we have to cooperate with other NGO’s, local/regional governments, or different types of institutions.