pesf - refugees, migrants & New Scots

Space @ The Broomhouse Centre offers parents who are new to Edinburgh and from ethnically diverse backgrounds with two structured training sessions.

The first session is to help parents learn about working in Scotland, including career planning and business English and a work club. 

The second session will offer parents insight into living in Scotland, incorporating wellbeing as the theme for the activities which will help parents to get to know their new country and settle into a new culture, reduce barriers and build essential skills for life. 

Space @ The Broomhouse Centre supports parent who are unemployed and wish to develop their job seeking skills to find meaningful work, improve their social integration and learning and wellbeing, particularly if parents are from an ethnically diverse background.  

The programme runs for six weeks at the Hub and parents will learn how to communicate well and work with others in a team, build confidence and focus on good health. 

 CHAI will support parents from minority ethnic backgrounds where they are unemployed or experiencing in-work poverty, as this project focuses on seeking equality for families.  

A dedicated Advice Worker will offer parents help in many areas relating to financial wellbeing, providing advice around benefits, housing, debt or 'in work' calculations too, where applicable. 

Barnardo's Bright Family Futures  supports employability for New Scot Parents. 

The programme supports parents to progress along the journey to finding meaningful work, using a tailored approach to parents' individual needs. Alongside developing new skills to help parents find work, they will learn wellbeing strategies through social interaction, mindfulness courses and have access to the thera-pet service. 

 Parents will also have the opportunity to enrol for 1:1 counselling sessions to support mental health. 

Passion4Fusion supports African and migrant parents facing financial issues (including no recourse to public funds) and parents who have underlying health concerns.  

This service will help parents to access support to manage their long-term health conditions.  

In addition, parents will be offered training, mentoring, and opportunities for job placements to help them gain the confidence and skills to secure employment. 

Project Esperanza supports primarily female parents from African countries, helping to prepare them for employment, education or training through volunteering opportunities and work placements.  

CV and cover letter writing, job searches and applications, interview and workplace skills and mentoring is also offered via 1:1 sessions.  

 Saheliya supports women or girls who identify as black, minority ethnic, asylum seekers, refugees or migrants, living in Edinburgh.  

The support offered by Saheliya helps parents to progress towards a career in childcare, over a programme of weeks, as well as language support and a creche for preschool children.  

The programme includes sessions to help parents overcome barriers, accredited child protection training, ESOL, work experience placements, and support to attend Edinburgh College. 

 The Welcoming's Get Ready for Opportunities and Work (GROW II) Project helps parents who are New Scots (asylum seeker, refugee, or migrant). 

The GROW Project is an eight week course to help parents to prepare for working in the UK. 

The course runs for two hours once a week (for eight weeks) and parents will learn how to find work in Scotland, how to write a CV, what to expect at job interviews, Scottish work culture, and their rights and responsibilities in the workplace. 

Volunteering Matters' Volunteers Supporting Parents Project works with parents who are  New Scots or members of the BAME community.

Parents will be matched with a volunteer whose experience, expertise, or interests complement their own needs and aspirations, and they will mentor parents on a weekly basis to support them to work towards their goals.

Volunteering Matters' Volunteers Supporting Parents (VSP) project supports parents who are New Scot (Refugee, Asylum Seekers, displaced people), are members of the Black and Minority Ethnic community, or have experienced disadvantage in accessing employability support and employment. 

The project offers weekly employability support and can also provide parents with a mentor who can give additional support in their journey to employment.