Slide 15

• While the Essential Skills Initiative is focused on the workplace at a macro level, some adult population groups form the main target audience:
  • members of particular population groups (e.g., youth at risk, Aboriginal People, people with disabilities, and immigrants) whose low level of essential skills compound the multiple barriers they face to social and economic inclusion; and
  • unemployed Canadians with low essential skills and may face difficulties re-entering the workplace and achieving sustainable employment;
  • Employed Canadians with low essential skills who may be having trouble accessing employer-sponsored training and may be least able to afford upgrading on their own.

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