The Skåne County Administrative Board (Lansstyrelsen) has the mission to promote capacity and preparedness for the reception of newly arrived migrants. It conducts its work through a model called Partnership Skåne which brings together the County Administrative Board, Region Skåne, Public Employment Service, municipalities, universities and civil society organizations.
Partnership Skåne acts as a frame for comprehensive inter-sectorial cooperation and methodological development supporting the integration of migrants and refugees in the region, with a focus on health, participation and empowerment.
As well as contributing to the REGIN tools and instruments, Skåne will be in charge of conducting a test bed in collaboration with its partner NGOs as part of its previous and ongoing method development regarding health equity and social inclusion.
The test bed will consist of an advisory service providing holistic support to newly arrived migrants and a support scheme tailored to individual needs to achieve integration, psychosocial support and empowerment.
The test-bed will be integrated into the regional systemic effort of Partnership Skåne and operate on a local/regional and individual and family-oriented level through an innovative and combined effort. The core of the test-bed is peer-based groups supervised by a trained Civic- and Health Communicator who shares language and migration background with the participants while at the same time having a professional role. The group activity will be based on dialogue and reflection centring around migration, mental health, and parenting through a primarily preventive approach.
The test-bed will be conducted complemented by two supportive methods in one to three municipalities:
The action will be carried out in the Skåne region by the social partner IM.
The action will be carried out with the support of Save the Children.
Finally, the methods developed under RR and My Path will be linked with complimentary activities in the concerned municipality through the formal networks linked to PS. In this process a joint knowledge development around needs and perspectives of the target groups, the possible benefits of the test-bed, as well as other needs and possibilities will be discussed and mapped. The work will, through the test-bed, include actors usually not having a strategic role in the design of integration programmes, i.e. IM (through RR) and Save the Children. The on-going process will also involve actors on regional and national level through the formal networks around the county boards in Sweden.
Evaluation and lessons learnt will be developed under this activity.
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