Welcome to Estonia, welcome to Tartu!

1. Welcome to Estonia, welcome to Tartu!

2. WHOLE Reconciliation work and family life through training of parents Estonian project Tartu 07th June 2006 Krista Noorkõiv

3. WHOLE Focus area: 4 counties in Eastern Estonia, bordering on Lake Peipsi

4. WHOLE 2005 - 2008 • The aim of the project: • Expanding the opportunities and development of the personal skills of working parents through the training, avoiding their incur to the discriminated group because being a parent

5. WHOLE 2005 - 2008 • Innovative approach: We assume we are able to improve parents´ work motivation and contribution at work: • through improving family relations by our parent effectiveness training (communication skills, better understanding of children and other people) • through expanding the personal characteristics of parents (open communication, self-confidence, management of time and energy, creativity)

6. WHOLE 2005 - 2008 Main activities (July 2005 – June 2006) • Carried out 8 information events in all target areas • Carried out the research of the target group • Designed 2 training programmes for parents • Designed the training programme for employers

7. WHOLE 2005 - 2008 Research into the target group • Objective: • To specify the problems related to work-life balance • To define the training needs of working parents • Used the focus group method – group discussions with working parents, with social and educational workers • Number of participants – 77 persons

8. WHOLE 2005 - 2008 • Main results of the research • Unemployment and poverty problems in peripheral areas • Lack of information for mothers returning from maternity leave • Big need to improve self-confidence of parents • Lack of training opportunities for parents • Big number of single mothers in most areas • Prejudices about the duties of men and women responsibilities in families and in whole society

9. WHOLE 2005 - 2008 • Main results of the research • Work-life balance • Different experience depending on employers • Mostly it is not easy to conciliate work and family life ...but unemployment is much worse! • Many parents (especially fathers) are working abroad • No interest in a part time job, because of low salaries

10. WHOLE 2005 - 2008 • Training needs Subject Parents Officers • Gordon PE Training 97 96 • Stress 97 88 • Self-confidence 96 93 • Sharing duties, responsibilities 85 90 • Time management 81 83 • Entrepreneurship 70 73 • Role of mother, father 69 83 • Role of woman, man 66 71

11. WHOLE 2005 - 2008 Trainings for parents (still June 2006) • Carried out 2 modules in each 8 areas • Gordon parental effectiveness training • Personal growth trainings, time-energy management, role of mother and father, woman and man in the changed society incl. art trainings in variety depending on the choise of the group • Entrepreneurship trainings in 4 county centres

12. WHOLE 2005 - 2008 Trainings for employers Based on the training manual produced by the LdV pilot project CSR/SME Training themes: • socially responsible entrepreneurship, • workplace and HRM, • family friendly enterprise • In Tartu - 10.03.2006, • In Põlva – 25.05.2006

13. WHOLE 2005 - 2008 During our project in 2005 – 2008 we train 500 persons – on average 65 from each local municipality. 2005/2006 in our training modules participated 95 + 74 + 23 +15 parents and 15 employers

14. WHOLE 2005 - 2008 Summer camps for parents • 17-20th August 2006 at Kiidi holiday village in South Estonia - a cosy place for family vacations • July 2007 You are welcome!

15. WHOLE 2005 - 2008 There are no losers by skilful combining of work and family life! Everybody wins: mother, father, children – whole family, companies, community, whole society!

16. WHOLE 2005 - 2008 Contacts: Project manager – Ene Nobel, Tartu Folk High School, Pepleri 4, Tartu, tel. 7361 539, ene@rahvaylikool.ee Assistant project manager – Krista Noorkõiv, Geomedia, Rüütli 4, Tartu, tel. 7441 675, krista@geomedia.ee