- Difficult to draw the line between counselling and dependency. You have to stand back and
not fall into their lives. You have to find a space on their level. Some times they just need a
good pep talk to get through the day. The challenge is to keep them from dependency and on
the side of advisory capacity;
- Sometimes the selection of participants. Difference in who gets paid what – whether
they are on HRDC or HRE. Sometimes there is a perception of favouritism and
"making deals".
- Technology is helping to overcome the geography issues, but there is still coming there.
- Unions are a challenge to work with. They can be a strength.
- The complexity of the model - or the difficulty of explaining such a simple concept.
- It would be difficult to explain to the public and to the media. Hard to
"Good" or "Excellent" the
message out.
- Finding employment partners in real rural areas that need employees and that are sustaining.
And are open and flexible to the learning environment and have room to accommodate them.
- They are limited to private sector employers
- If there is no work for them at the end of the program – they are screwed.
- Dependent upon funding – to be announced & found and implemented.
- Dealing with the unions from the College point of view – must take the recalls. Personality
plays a large role in this. There is dramatically different requirements of the Academic
Instructors. Need the time to do the individualized training and prep work for training and assessment.
- The varying starting points (in terms of literacy) of the students. Makes it more of a challenge.
- Requires more time that is not necessarily there.
- Also requires the time for the Academic Instructors to correlate and build the new content and
tailored programs for each work site.
- Lack of Flexibility to meet requirements around employment partners
- Challenge to find employment partners in rural isolated communities.
- Had to have not have a Grade 11. There are still cracks. But this is a targetted program
- Everybody is getting paid differently. This is an issue.
- Selection Process: some up front assessment, but there was too much. One was physically
sick because of the testing.
- Communication is key.
- Orientation to the CLN and what is a CLN. There is a tradition of this kind of approach.
- The fact that it is a model from "outside". Role of RNDA. Need more
flexible and accommodation between RNDA and the CLN and the sponsor.
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