It is an undeniable fact that parents play a crucial role in planning their children’s future professional career. Although the researches into this issue have been conducted in the USA and Canada for 10 years, in Europe it is still a new subject matter.

The project aims at:

• increase awareness of parents that they are important cell in the chain of their children career making
• broadening parents’ knowledge: how to help your own child in choosing the professional path
• empowerment of the peer-parents consultations role in parents education
• encouraging constant cooperation in the field of professional orientation between personal counselors at schools and parents of pupils
• reducing stress among young people that results from making a difficult decision concerning the choice of profession through positive and specialist participation of parents in this process
• improving communication between children and their parents as a result of the joint participation in making crucial lifetime decisions
• improving the effectiveness of the choice of profession made by pupils as a result of acting in accordance with one’s interests and abilities as well as correlating the future profession with the demands of the job market

Target groups:

• parents of young people who face the choice of making a decision concerning the direction of their
  occupational education
• young people facing the choice of occupational education
• personal counsellors working at schools and school teachers who provide their pupils with personal counselling
  training companies: will receive a new training programme for counsellors and teachers which will enrich their offer
• Universities, which provides courses of career counselling
• Academic researchers: increase of the number of research on parents’ influence on career choices made by their children, examining whether education of parents in this area brings positive results.

Products of the project:

• 30-hour-long training available on Cd-Rom together with methodical materials for the people who teach the course and materials for the participants of the course.
• Thematic communicational platform addressed to parents as a tool for non-formal education about helping child in making a decision concerning the choice of profession.