Final set of Impactful Parents Creative Employability sessions for lone parents and ethnic minority (non-white or non-British) parents. The dates and locations for our final programmes are as follows:<\/p>\n
Wednesdays (January 21st-March 18th) from 9:30am-2:30pm at Voluntary Sector Gateway, Bathgate<\/strong><\/p>\n Thursdays (January 22nd-March 19th) from 9:30am-2:30pm at Reconnect Howden Park, Livingston<\/strong><\/p>\n Fridays (January 16th<\/sup>-March 13th<\/sup>) from 9:30am-12:30pm ONLINE<\/strong><\/p>\n As part of the programme, participants will gain employability skills and an SQA qualification, receive 1-2-1 support towards future employment, and enjoy plenty of fun and engaging creative arts activities. As part of attending, participants can receive up to \u00a315 per day\u00a0training allowance<\/strong>\u00a0for attending the programme, plus travel expenses. In-person participants will receive a\u00a0free catered lunch at every session<\/strong>\u00a0whilst online participants will receive\u00a0an art pack with a variety of arts materials<\/strong>\u00a0which they can use both within and beyond the sessions.<\/p>\n Impact Arts\u2019 friendly, supportive delivery staff will work with participants to ensure everyone reaches their potential and has a great experience. Our dedicated Wellbeing & Opportunities Worker will support participants to gain an SQA qualification and will offer tailored pastoral support. Our Creative Lead tutor will introduce participants to new artistic techniques and will support them in creating artworks using various artforms.<\/p>\n At the end of the programme, there will be a celebratory showcase of work that will be planned, collated and hosted by the participants. Friends and family members can help the participants to celebrate their achievements.<\/p>\n We aim to help each participant to build confidence and develop employability skills to ensure they go on to a positive destination once they complete the programme. This could be further training, education or employment.<\/p>\n This programme is open to lone parents and ethnic minority (non-white or non-British) parents who live in West Lothian who are experiencing barriers to employment.<\/strong><\/p>\n If you are a lone parent or an ethnic minority parent living in West Lothian or a referral agency, and you\u2019d like to express an interest in joining the Impactful Parents programme, please complete our\u00a0REFERRAL FORM<\/strong><\/a>. A member of staff from Impact Arts will then be in touch.\u202fIf you\u2019d like more information about the programme, you can visit our website:\u00a0IMPACT ARTS WEBSITE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Participant-Guide-Impactful-Parents-West-Lothian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Final set of Impactful Parents Creative Employability sessions for lone parents and ethnic minority (non-white or non-British) parents. The dates and locations for our final programmes are as follows: Wednesdays (January 21st-March 18th) from 9:30am-2:30pm at Voluntary Sector Gateway, Bathgate Thursdays (January 22nd-March 19th) from 9:30am-2:30pm at Reconnect Howden Park, Livingston Fridays (January 16th-March 13th) … Continue reading Impact Arts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17462,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StJosephsPS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StJosephsPS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StJosephsPS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StJosephsPS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StJosephsPS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StJosephsPS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11361,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StJosephsPS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360\/revisions\/11361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StJosephsPS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StJosephsPS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StJosephsPS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}