Benefits:
- To Learners:
- Upgrade their skills through real life activities
- Improve the soft skills that are essential to employment but often not addressed
- Confidence is improved because the control is put into the hands of the learners
- Having the opportunity to showcase their work should help reduce the stigma attached
to low literacy
- Ontario Works:
- Community placement participants can provide leadership
- Opportunity to share their expertise, providing new skills to learners
- Build their self-confidence
- The project can help them identify areas where they could need new
learning (literacy/numeracy needs)
- Town of Napanee:
- Work in partnership with community members
- Receive support with long-term goals
- A tourist attraction especially if long-term funding allows us to continue
Project to Date:
- Completed our first vision
- Brainstormed our own personal contacts for support (Who do we know who could help)
- Set individual short-term goals based on interests and employment goals
- Set some long-term goals for the project as a whole
- Began research according to goals
- Completed an electrical and small tool safety course
- Written letters asking for support from the community
- Interviewed by the local paper
- Visited the local library for information
- The project had a total of 9 participants - one exited for employment and
one exited for further upgrading at the Literacy Centre
