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COASTAL
What is the COASTAL Project?
The COASTAL Project stands for:
Creating Opportunities And Skills Teams ALliance.
The region covers: Bridgend, Neath Port Talbot, Swansea, Carmarthen, Pembroke, Ceredigion.
The aims of the COASTAL Project are to:
1) Promote employment and educational opportunities for individuals who are currently economically inactive as a result of serious and enduring mental illness and or disability or social disadvantage;
2) To develop a range of services and support across the region.
European Social Fund
The project activity is part-funded by the European Social Fund (ESF), as part of the West Wales &The Valleys Convergence Programme 2007-2013.
A participant of the COASTAL Project will receive:
- A detailed and comprehensive assessment of need. This will result in an Individual Programme detailing the support required to assist to overcome the identified barriers to engagement in learning, training and employment.
- Project staff will then provide or organise access to the required support to meet the participant’s needs including:
- Access to appropriate education/skills training;
- Supported employment or work experience;
- Support with job applications, CV writing, interview skills, etc. - The support will continue for as long as it is required, up to a maximum of 12 months post employment.
- The Project will offer support, advice and guidance to employers in order to raise awareness of illness and disability issues. We will also assist them in engaging with project participants which may lead to employment opportunities.
Swansea COASTAL
The Swansea arm of the project involves the following procured delivery agents:
Cwmbwrla Day Centre – Mental Health
Create Solutions – Mental Health
Fforestfach Day centre – Learning Disability
Swansea Vale Resource Centre – Physical Disability
Swansea Drugs Project – Drug and Alcohol abuse
WGCADA – Drug and Alcohol abuse
These establishments all provide training, development and / or work placements and help with gaining employment.
Targets
Economically Inactive Participants engaged with
Qualifications gained
Participants entering employment
Participants entering further learning
Participants gaining other positive outcomes
Employers adopting or improving equality and diversity strategies and monitoring systems
In addition, Swansea COASTAL has further funds to procure additional services in order to help us to deliver the project.
Contact: Swansea COASTAL Project Manager: Helen Evans: 07901 103852
Swansea COASTAL Project Administrator: Kathryn Sharp: 01792 483830