The Latvian Adult Education Association is implementing the Erasmus + project “Care Compass: Empowering Support Persons in Social Sphere.”

The objective of the project is to strengthen the capabilities and skills of support persons in the social field so that they can offer targeted and high-quality support to more vulnerable groups (e.g. adults in need of assistance, children with special needs).

Here are the projects social media pages:

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/caring_compass/#CaringCompass

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61574121011017

LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/caring-compass-project/

The project conducted a study to understand more deeply the work of support persons in the social sphere, their needs and wishes, to identify existing problems and gaps in their work, as well as to highlight best practices in five European countries: Estonia, France, Italy, Latvia and Sweden. This information will serve as the basis for the development of targeted training materials, a manual and a methodological toolkit in the next stages of the project.

The study summarizes the analysis of the answers provided by 117 respondents who work as support persons in France, Sweden, Latvia, Estonia and Italy. The results of this study should be interpreted with caution as they only reflect specific groups of support workers who participated in the study and may not accurately reflect the experiences of all support workers in partner countries.

The whole study you can find here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x9s91onJJclkXi5hGIeGw8eeHK6zeb1Q/view?usp=drive_link 
Here are Key takeaways of the study: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GH6xvpJWVQ19HuQUdsCcz9JbW6k2a95U/view?usp=drive_link