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FOR FOUR years Capilano College has been
running a very successful Alternative Career

learning handicaps. These
students, whose average age

three days per week in the
classroom learning about job
search skills and consumer

modified graduation creden-
tials. They need job skills
and want employment, but

coordinator Jolene
Bordewick gives much of the
credit for this success story

munity.
ACT is a training program
in joo skills for students with

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awareness, and two’ days
gaining work experience in

rather than al} working in
one field, each of the 12
students can try out a dif-
ferent occupation, such as
auto mechanics, custodial,
or restaurant training — and
this approach is only imade

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Amvng the organizations
that have offered job place-

rh, is 20, are from special require grade 12 equivalen- the community. ment to ACT students, are
Training (ACT) program. education classes in local cy. The program is unusual in White Spot, Maynards In-
But the colleges ACT to the North Shore com- high schools and have In ACT, students spend its individual approach — dustries, Zellers, The Bay,

Dykhof Nurseries, the North
Vancouver Recreation Cen-
tre, Hobby Brews and
Beaver Foods.

ACT faculty also meets
with students’ families and
arranges with support agen-

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CAPILANO College instructor Jolene Bordewick chats with some of her students. Bordewick teaches a special eduction
course for students with learning handicaps. The course teaches the students job skills.

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