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Work Foundations

Employment and Immigration
Last Verified: 2005-09-14

To provide full-time and part-time basic skills training and academic upgrading to enable clients to pursue further job-related training and/or to find a job and substantially improve their situation.

Eligibility Criteria

Clients
The Work Foundations Program is primarily for low-income Albertans who lack the basic academic, language and/or employability skills needed to advance to further training, get a job, and become self-sufficient.

Summary

Program Elements

Basic Skills Training is a classroom-based training program designed to help people develop the basic competencies needed to obtain employment and/or to pursue further employmentrelated training. Basic Skills Training is provided on both a part-time and full-time basis, and includes:

• English as a Second Language (ESL)
• Basic Literacy and Numeracy (Grades 1 - 6)
• Adult Basic Education (Grades 7 - 9)
• Life Skills/Personal Management

Academic Upgrading is a grade 10-12, classroom-based training program that helps clients develop the academic competencies needed to get a job or to pursue further employment-related training. The expected outcomes of Academic Upgrading are increased employability, employment, and readiness for further training.

Academic Upgrading is provided on a part-time and full-time basis.

Program Outcomes

Short term

• Increased employability
• Paid employment
• Progression to further training

Long term

• Sustained employment
• Reduced dependency on income support

For more information:

Click: www.alis.gov.ab.ca/career/cs/abcareer.asp

Related Reading

• Career Information Hotline

Alberta Contact(s):
Career Information Hotline
Alberta Employment and Immigration
Alberta 
Telephone: 780-422-4266 (Edmonton)
Fax: 780-422-0372
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