Catalogue of Initiatives

The aim of the course is to provide social and health care professionals and other stakeholders with competences and tools to better support informal caregivers with migrant background.

This training course takes the participants through three training modules:

• Informal carers with migrant background: who they are and which specific challenges they face;
  This module aims to introduce learners to what an informal carer is, who they are and what tasks they do, who are the informal carers with migrant background and the challenges they face on double exclusion.
• The impact of different cultural backgrounds on aetiology, diagnosis, cure, care provision;● Beyond the concept of “cultural competences”: how to deal with diversity in care provision
  This module aims to introduce learners to the concept of culture and interculturality and how different cultural backgrounds can have an impact on the caregiving experience.
• Beyond the concept of “cultural competences”: how to deal with diversity in care provision;
  This module aims to introduce the practical strategies professionals can follow in order to provide their services to migrant informal caregivers, avoiding the risks of falling into stereotypes and assumptions and playing an empathetic and supportive role in their lives.

All modules include some theoretical background information as well as practical exercises to better understand the concepts and try to apply them in practice.