Skills for Life
These members have identified the desire to obtain a paying job or volunteer position within the community.
The activities used for employment readiness focus on preparing each person for future employment. The skills this group will build enables them to not only get the job, but to keep the job as well.
Areas of focus:
- Task analysis – focus on specific skills and identification of work strengths and interests
- Finances – bills, budgets and banking
- Transportation – city bus training
- Work ethic
- Self worth and the ability to ask for help
- Work experience – Windy Woods Co-operative provides in-house opportunities to practice an employable skill