What do they see as the Legacy of the CLN and BTG

• providing a user–friendly program that meets rural educational and economical development needs. (A one stop shop approach – program that considers individual needs, business/industries needs & making it work) Flexibility and partnerships are key.
• Students who are enrolled to achieve academic success for the skills training being delivered – at the end of the program that the practical training will be enough to get them the job and take them off government dependency.
• From the College perspective – relationship built with two employers (Newfoundland Hardwood and Co–op)
• Strengthening of the employment partner. The first one that we did the employees brought a lot more to the employer and it motivated the workers so there was a strengthening of the company. Hoping the same thing will happen for the two current employers. This is intended to lead to better products, better relationships, and a stronger company.
• Becoming familiar with the partners that we work with. Developing and strengthening the relationships with the other partners.
• This is a much broader scale result. There have been individual relationships developed at the CLN and other initiatives that their experiences and learning here has spawned and been the catalyst for other things – probably some that they don't even know about.
• Hoping to get the participants to reach their employment goals and the social goals. The latter are more important but less tangible to the overall success for the individuals. Enables them to contribute to the community.
• It works specifically to the goals of holistic integrated approach of the SSP. These are some of the hoped for legacies. It enables them to leverage the BTG experience into building and strengthening their communities.
• Strengthening the communities as a whole – take the participant and they gain the self–esteem and they can operate better in their communities and their workplace. Less people on assistance.
• Important that we have the Strategic Social Plan and Zonal people at the CLN – while they aren't directive of the operations of the CLN. It is not an accident that the CLN supports the zonal plan and the SSP.
• We will get 12 participants which are well–versed in the whole industry sector – excellent training program. The 40 week duration is long enough to really get to the meat of it all.
• There has been a lot of training going on that was not linked to employment. This was very practical, job specific, training and we saw this as building and going beyond the Linkages program. We were very excited about the concept overall. We hope things work well. We are hearing about needs from other sectors that want to do the program as well.
• We are training people to stay and not to leave, for a change.
• There is a positive boost in the community to see people who are "down on their luck" working and getting up and going.
• We are producing productive residents who are able to sustain themselves in their community for the long term.