CIS’s delivery addresses both social integration and employability by:
• Providing a community-based English language programme of 2-online ESOL classes and 5 face-to-face ESOL classes each week for asylum seekers and refugees, for 26 weeks between 1 May 2023 to 30 November 2023.
• ESOL classes will include material supporting social integration through participants learning and practicing English including: conversing with neighbours about themselves and enquiring about others, going shopping, traveling around the city, seeking directions, accessing key services (such as doctors/GPs, community facilities, educational activities, schools, etc), volunteering, seeking help in an emergency, accessing free/low-cost leisure, culture and sporting facilities.
• Organising ‘Walk and Talk’ weekly walks for those attending the ESOL classes, providing an opportunity for people to visit some of these locations providing support services and cultural/leisure activities, practice their English in meeting English native speakers and using English with their peers.
• Delivering supporting volunteering and employability Information sessions in partnership with Volunteer Glasgow, Glasgow Life, Skills Development Scotland, The Bridges Programme and visits to relevant services and facilities as covered in the English classes, to support integration and build confidence and again giving another opportunity to practice English.