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How Community-Based Training Works
The community-based training model strives to provide the highest-quality training opportunities, delivered at a reasonable cost.
The success of CBT is rooted in its holistic approach: it recognizes and attempts to address the special and unique training needs of its client groups. This client-centred approach, coupled with a high level of flexibility in programming to meet the needs of the client and of the labour market, contributes to the success of community-based training.
Community-based training provides:
- individual vocational and career assessment
- individual and group skill training
- language instruction
- academic upgrading
- literacy and numeracy training
- employment preparedness and readiness
- work experience
- employment placement
- job support and maintenance
- life/transition skills training
- information and referral
- individual and group counselling
- individual and group advocacy
- income maintenance
- crisis support as required
Two of the most impressive statistics of community-based training are its low "early leavers" rate and its high success rate. An early leaver is a person who departs from the program prior to completion of the training. The rate of early leavers in community-based training programs is generally between 0% and 12%.
In addition, community-based training has consistently high success rates when measuring outcomes. Success in this context is whether the graduate goes on to further training or education, or finds and maintains employment.
Throughout Canada, the success rate for community-based training programs is 70% and better.
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