Introduce self and explain project.

1. Current status
   • employed (ft, pt, casual, seasonal, moonlighting)
   • unemployed
   • social assistance
   
   
2. What kind of things do you need to do which require reading or writing?
   
   
3. How do you manage? (fake it get help from somebody)
   
   
4. Do you look at or read
   • newspapers? which sections?
   • magazines? which ones?
   • books? kind?
   
   
5. Do you write at all? (notes, letters, diary, do you have a chequing account?)
   
   
6. How is your spelling? (Problems)
   
   
7. How is your math?
   
   
8. Coping strategies?
   
   
9. Would you like to upgrade your skills?
   1. if yes, how could you see that happening?
   2. if no, why not?
   
   
10. Have you ever thought about going to a program?
    
    
11. Why have you not taken the first step? List barriers which apply.
    • lack of awareness of options
    • self-esteem
    • anxiety, fear of failure
    
    
12. What would make it easier for you to go to a program?
    
    
13. Perceived value of education - to you, for others, for children?
    
    
14. How much schooling have you had?
    
    
15. What was your school experience like? (repeated? socially promoted? in BC? other?)
    
    
16. How old were you when you left school?
    
    
17. Reasons for quitting?
    
    
18. How do you feel about your school experience now? Likes? Dislikes?
    
    
19. Age group?      18-29      30-44      45-60      over 60
    
    
20. Any other comments.