Foundations: 12-Month Impacts of a Literacy and Essential Skills Intervention for Job Seekers
The Foundations Workplace Skills Project (FWSP), a three-year initiative led by the Training Group at Douglas College, British Columbia, is the first study to use a randomized control trial design to evaluate the impacts of a Literacy & Essential Skill (LES) based program model targeted specifically to meet the needs of unemployed job seekers.
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Project Details
Capability: Experimentation
Policy Area: Adult Learning - Adult Training, Career Development and LMI, Employment
Population: Low-skilled Workers
Start Date: July 2013
Completion Date: October 2017
Sponsors: The Training Group at Douglas College
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