Mr. Speaker, I rise today to highlight the remarkable achievements of two programs in my riding of Etobicoke North that are helping unemployed workers to get the skills they need to take their rightful place in the workforce.
The Rexdale micro skills project assists recently unemployed women and offers targeted solutions to meet their diverse needs. Going into its 13th year of operation, this program offers computer skills for accounting, for business and industry, for Internet training and training at automated work stations.
The program offered at Humber College provides each client with a unique return to work action plan.
Together, these two programs will help 735 unemployed persons to gain the skills required to get and keep a job.
These valuable programs owe their existence to $3 million in funding from Human Resources Canada.
This is money well spent. I can happily report that 65% to 75% of the Humber College clients and 80% of the Rexdale micro skills graduates go on to full time employment. Bravo.