Community Benefits Industry: • Employees are prepared specifically to enter their workplace, trained with industry-designed curriculum. • They come into the workplace equipped with the hard and the soft skills to be productive members of the employment team. Government: • The FTE training program produces an assured positive return on the government training investment. • Every person who is trained, and ultimately employed, moves off income assistance (IA) programs and enters into the tax revenue base. • The trained person is removed from the expense side and moved to the taxpayer/income side of the government balance sheet, not just temporarily, but in productive long-term positions within a range of employment sectors. • FTE is an essential element to address the changing public policy regarding income assistance enrollments. • FTE recognizes the need to assist persons who are leaving IA with the support and training necessary for a successful transition and placement into the labour market. • Targeted training increases the potential for long-term employment retention, further reducing the dilemma of transfer of dependence to Federal Employment Insurance and longer term Income Assistance "recycling". • FTE’s integrated continuum of services model provides administrative savings to the Ministry of Human Resources. • FIT will be conducting an RFP (Request for Proposal) process to choose contractors for program delivery; and FIT will be administering and overseeing the contractors providing pre-employment and skills training. Unemployed: • For the unemployed person, the great reward is to be able to fulfill their potential and create a secure future through successful employment, which leads to dignity and self-reliance, and becoming a healthy member of the community. • The long-term employability of the participant is enhanced by entering the specific employment sector training.