Recommendations for improving the contents of the training programmes

Sunday, 27 September 2015 09:33 |

The analyses made within the project allow us to draw several conclusions in terms of the system and the programmes for training of probation workers in our country.

Probation workers in general receive the necessary theoretical knowledge and practical skills for practicing their profession; The training is conducted by highly qualified staff; Master’s programmes provide a comprehensive training of specialists who can work in the preventive and corrective sphere for children and adults.

These are the recommendations made for the team working on developing the training programme for probation workers.

Introducing the use of individual training paths.

Developing the level of qualification in terms of both workers’ and managers’ personnel.

In the delivered training programmes there is a general lack of purposeful training for work with individuals with psychiatric disorders and intellectual disability as well as with people from various minority groups.

Introducing a training for recognizing different psychiatric problems in clients, for copying with critical situations with mentally ill clients, for efficient engagement and achieving a change in them.

Widening the scope of the training for work with offenders with addiction – (alcohol, drugs) and with the ensuing problems for the clients and their reintegration.

Creating at least one master’s programme in the long term entirely focused on specialists in the probation sphere coordinated with Directorate General “Execution of Pusnishments”.

Introducing e-training – flexible, secure, always available, easy for actualizing, and containing more styles and types of information convenient especially for the new generation.

For a qualitative training the following is needed: ensuing trainings for providing a better effect on the whole training process; methods for checking to what extent the workers having been trained use the competences acquired in the process of training; the results from the training should be measured according to evaluating the knowledge and the skills before and after the respective training; the personal judgement of the direct managers is important when evaluating the effect of the trainings.

The training of the managers’ and the administrative personnel is important for improving the work environment.