Short modules
Units of one to three days, stackable, which add up to a pathway recognised by the association.
Learning throughout a career
A profession that never stops learning
An older person’s needs change, and so does professional guidance. Continuing education at Les 3A lets a care worker in post, an institutional team or a family carer make progress without stepping away from their work.
Available offline
Materials are designed for an entry-level phone and can be read without a network. Content syncs as soon as a connection is available.
A 16-hour annual base
Every care worker placed by the association completes at least sixteen hours of professional development a year, included in their support package.
The catalogue
Four pathways, depending on who you are
A qualified care worker, a family carer, a facility manager and a trainer have neither the same needs nor the same time available. The catalogue is organised accordingly.
Professional development for social care workers
Deepen one area, acquire a new skill, or prepare for a step up the professional pay scale.
| Module | Length | What you will be able to do |
|---|---|---|
| Respectful care and everyday ethics | 2 days | Recognise how routine slides into ordinary mistreatment, adjust your practice, raise concerns through the proper channel. |
| Moving, handling and fall prevention | 2 days | Transfer a person safely, make a home secure, implement a fall-prevention plan. |
| Nutrition in older age | 2 days | Spot undernutrition and dehydration, adapt food textures, organise assistance at mealtimes. |
| Cognitive impairment and communication | 3 days | Recognise signs of cognitive impairment, adapt your communication, manage agitation and refusal of care. |
| End-of-life care | 3 days | Understand the palliative approach, ease discomfort, support the person and the family, and look after yourself. |
| Hygiene and infection prevention | 1 day | Apply standard precautions in the home, maintain equipment, dispose of care waste. |
| First aid and emergency response | 2 days | Respond to a collapse, a fall, choking, a wound or a burn, and raise the alarm effectively. |
| Writing and handover | 1 day | Write clear, factual handover notes, keep the communication log, prepare a review meeting with the family. |
The family carers pathway
A son, a daughter-in-law or a neighbour can become a carer overnight, with no preparation. These modules, open to everyone, teach the essential skills and help prevent exhaustion.
Helping without hurting yourself
A hands-on half day: helping someone stand, sit and walk, and adapting the bedroom and bathroom.
Understanding what changes
What ageing actually alters — memory, balance, sleep, appetite — and what should raise concern.
Feeding a relative who eats little
Spotting undernutrition, enriching meals, adapting textures, coping with refusal to eat.
Lasting the distance
Recognising carer exhaustion, arranging respite, and combining family and professional care without guilt.
In France, 64 % of older people losing independence at home are
helped both by relatives and by professionals, and 22 % by
relatives alone. Training families is not an extra: it supports the people
carrying most of the load.
Source: Drees, Vie quotidienne et santé survey, 2014.
Facilities, employers and institutions
In-house training, designed to order after a needs assessment, delivered on your premises or at the Mimboman centre.
- Team upskilling — align the practice of a care team, from technique to written handover.
- Respectful care programme — build an internal framework, train supervisors to recognise problems, put six-monthly review in place.
- Occupational risk prevention — musculoskeletal disorders, emotional load, work organisation.
- Hosting and mentoring students — prepare a team to receive learners and assess their skills in practice.
- Data protection awareness — obligations under Law no. 2024/017 applied to everyday care work.
Becoming a trainer or lead worker
The top grade of the professional scale is lead care worker: they mentor students, deliver training sessions and act as a point of reference for colleagues. This pathway prepares for that role.
- Prior experience
At least three years in practice and a favourable supervision report. - Adult teaching
Designing a session, leading a group, assessing a skill in a real situation rather than by recitation. - Mentoring on placement
Welcoming a learner, increasing responsibility step by step, conducting a progress review. - Practice reflection
Leading a group discussion of difficult situations, without judgement and without indulgence.
Why it matters
Continuing education repairs what the market damages
The French data describe a sector that, for want of structure, exposes its workers: a high average age, widespread part-time work, and multiple jobs that fragment the day. These are precisely the vulnerabilities that continuing education and supervision can contain.
Among employees specialising in personal care services, the average age reaches 52 and 83 % work part-time. Without skills development or prospects, a career becomes a job that wears people out.
Les 3A has made the opposite choice: a compulsory annual base, stackable modules, monthly supervision and a grade structure that makes progression visible.
See all the dataProfiles of personal care service employees
France, 2019 — what an unstructured sector produces.
| Profile | Average age | Permanent | Part-time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Specialised | 52 | 84 % | 83 % |
| Supplementary work | 51 | 75 % | 67 % |
| Changing activity | 41 | 54 % | 60 % |
| All | 46 | 69 % | 71 % |
Source: Insee, Insee Focus no. 331 — All employees panel, 2019.
Practicalities
Enrolling on a module
Professional modules are for people already doing care work, qualified or not. The family carers pathway is open to anyone supporting a relative, with no conditions. In-house training is arranged by contract with the employer.
Every module combines in-person time at the Mimboman centre — moving and handling cannot be learned remotely — with sequences readable on a phone, including offline, for revision and assessment.
Each completed module gives a named certificate stating the skills covered and the hours involved. These certificates accumulate in the professional record and count towards moving up the pay scale for care workers placed by the association.
The sixteen-hour annual base is included for care workers placed by the association. Other modules carry a contribution whose amount, like the rates for in-house training, is given by the office depending on the session and the number of participants.