Germany, Weinstadt
Understanding yourself better
Care thrives with collaboration – and collaboration is based on understanding. When different cultures meet, misunderstandings can quickly arise. What is considered respectful in one country can be perceived as distant in another. Such differences make day-to-day care and communication between care staff, trainees, and residents more difficult.
The proportion of care trainees with a migrant background is constantly increasing. Many of them are highly committed – but often lack the structural support they need to overcome linguistic and cultural challenges. The Großheppach Deaconesses (Großheppacher Schwesternschaft) offer direct help here with a practical model project – independent of long political decision-making processes.
The project is aimed at trainees (as care professionals) with a history of migration. The project is about tackling linguistic and cultural challenges at an early stage and taking concrete measures, such as weekly, job-specific language lessons and intercultural training – both for trainees and for nursing staff and residents. In addition, an open and appreciative approach to the topic of diversity in day-to-day care work in order to increase understanding and reduce misunderstandings.
The AEB-Stiftung provides financial support for additional language lessons, intercultural training courses, and the necessary materials to improve the training situation in the care sector in the long term (for everyone involved).
Evangelische Pflegeschule Weinstadt . Project Instigator
Großheppacher Schwesternschaft