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5.3. SUPPLEMENTARY
SERVICES
Providers were asked for information about non-educational
services provided for students of the ABE programs. For many women these
services are essential for them to physically enter the programs and stay in
them for the duration of the program (see Tables 5-9 and 5-10).
Table 5-9: Distribution of ABE Programs by Services
Provided and
Time of Provision (N =98) |
| |
|
Services |
|
| Time Offered |
Childcare |
Career
Counselling |
Personal
Counselling |
Travel |
Orientation |
|
|
| Day |
13.2% |
36.7% |
35.7% |
14.3% |
28.6% |
| Evening |
---- |
1.0% |
---- |
1.0% |
---- |
| Day & Evening
|
1.0% |
22.4% |
18.3% |
---- |
9.2% |
| Provided: |
---- |
3.1% |
3.6% |
3.1% |
6.1% |
| (No time specified) |
|
|
|
|
|
| Not provided |
85.7% |
36.7% |
42.8% |
81.6% |
51.1% |
|
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Table 5-10: Providers Perceptions of the Adequacy of Supplementary
Services
Provided and Not provided in ABE Programs |
| |
|
|
Adequate |
Inadequate |
| Services |
|
Number |
% |
Number |
% |
|
| |
| Childcare |
(N=76) |
31 |
40.7% |
45 |
59.3% |
| Career Counselling |
(N=75) |
39 |
52.0% |
36 |
48.0% |
| personal Counselling |
(N=76) |
39 |
5l.1% |
37 |
48.7% |
| Transportation |
(N = 75) |
35 |
46.6% |
40 |
53.4% |
| Orientation to Resources |
|
|
|
|
|
| in Community |
(N=76) |
36 |
47.4% |
40 |
52.6% |
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