Assessing Voluntary Experiences (AVE) -
Pilot study in an association ARIA
(2003-2006)
- ARIA is an association gathering wives and husbands of
military staff . It was created in 1992 with a special focus on
the employment of wives and husbands of military staff. As a pilot project, ARIA has decided to make a
study on the ways and means to promote AVE among its volunteers.
This project is supported by the Social Action for the Army
(Ministry for Defense) and the European Social Fund (ESF).
The results of the project, a portfolio for people faced to
mobility, are available among ARIA : www.aria-paris
Presentation
ARIA has been studying for the ten past years on the
difficulties wives and husbands of military staff have to cope with
on the labour market. The AVE may be a way to support professional
integration by valuing an involvement in association. Training has
been a constant purpose for the managers of ARIA since its creation
in 1992. AVE may be a way to make the link between a voluntary work
and a paid work.
Aim
This pilot study is meant to identify, value and assess
knowledge and know-how acquired through a voluntary experience, in
the field of an association, ARIA , dedicated to the families of
military staff'. It will identify both general and technical skills .
The results could be transfered to other associations, whoever the
voluntters and whatever their public or domains of activity . This
project is meant to answer the needs for recognition and valorisation
of their skills expressed by volunteers. For the associations, it
should be a way to value the training programmes offered to
volunteers as they could use them in a professional perspective. The
study also answers the demands expressed by the institutional
partners of the associations : public authorities (central
administration or local autjorities) eager to recognize volunteering
as a form of informal apprenticeship ; professionals working in human
ressources (employment agencies in particular) willing to integrate
all the dimensions of a candidate's life in his/her curriculum
(formal, informal, non formal).
Objectives
- identifying skills acquired or developed through an
associative involvement ;
- asking its network of volunteers why they volunteer, which
skills they have acquired or developed and thise who would be
willing to involve in the AVE process.
- testing a tool and method among a team of volunteers of ARIA
willing to renew with the labour market ;
- testing the impact of this method and team on the labour
market ;
- proposing a label for this tool and method experimented.
- Planning
4 steps :
- step 1 : January 2003-December 2003 : consultation among
ARIA's volunteers ;
- step 2 : March 2004-December 2004 : conception and
experimentation of a tool and method among ARIA's volunteers ;
- step 3 : January 2005-December 2005 : accompanying the
volunteers on the labour market and feed back on the tool and
method ;
- step 4 : January 2006- December 2006 : proposing a label for
the method and tool to be used whoever the volunteer, and whatever
the domain of activity.
Evaluation
- A working group is constituted by :
- o ARIA : Béatrice Maguin, Florence de Haynin,
Marie-Josée Orta, Agnès Richard , Florence
Recoursé et Catherine Lasserre ;
- o ANPE (National Agency for Employment) : Didier Defer ;
- o ACEIP : Sabine Bouillon, Béatrice Fauqueur, Catherine
Grégoire
- o CNAM (National Conservatory for Arts and Trade) : Bernard
Lietard ;
- o Ministry for Defense : Corinne Rion et Héléna
Gauvrit (Bureau accompanying wives and husbands for finding a job)
- o House for the Economic Development and Employment :
Stéphany Brial-Cottineau.
- o IRIV : Bénédicte Halba
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- Partner
- Study realised for ARIA with the
financial support of the Ministry for Defense and the European
Social Fund.
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