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| Third Pathways |

Class graduates

"by Betty Barton

The Pathways program held their

third graduation last Friday night.
Fifteen of the 18 students who
began the 10-month course
accepted their certificates and
made emotionally charged
speeches about the benefits of the
course and the personal growth
and the bonding with fellow class-
mates they had experienced.
Two special graduation certifi-
cates were presented, one to Emi-

line Gray, the two-week old

daughter of student Sue Evans, and
one to Joe Candeloro, an adminis-
trator at the Royal Bank, who
participated as a student in the
cultural awareness segment of the
program. Guest speaker was Eric
Johanson of the Terrace Safeway
store, an employer-sponsor of the
program since its inception.
Pathways coordinator Ron Jacobs

Effects of program spreading through

by Gillian Norman

The success of Pathways, a
special program offered by the
Kermode Friendship Centre, is
rippling through the community as
the program’s third graduating
class recently celebrated their
accomplishments.

It is a Terrace-based program for
unemployed people of native an-
cestry, designed to develop and
hone skills for use in the work
force. Students are encouraged to
aim for Grade 12 academic equiv-
alency, and through the eight-
month course are exposed to many
forms of communication to
enhance their ability to listen and
understand, and to express them-
selves.

__, But Pathways is something more

than an employment development
program. It is an exploration of
experiences, of self-confidence and
of learning through a process of
esteem-building and personal
development. Students get instruc-
tion to help them complete as
much of their formal education as
possible and to help them with
normal interactions in typical work
places.

“pointed out that from courses one

and two of the Pathways program,
three of the graduates had become
life skills coaches, one became an
electrician and two became hair-
dressers. °

_ From this graduating class, he
expects one student to go into
customer services at the Royal
Bank, another to become a jour-

neyman baker and a third to

become a chef. Jacobs and life
skills coach Sondra Fifi (a student

from the first Pathways course) a

said they are proud of their grads.
Congratulations were offered to
Alex Scodane, Bob O’Donahey,
Alexis Lundquist, Sue Evans,

Rhonda Abou, Elaine Bolton, *

Cindy Stewart, Valerie Brown,
Maureen Johnson, David Gray,
Billy Moore, Angie Moore, Victor
Wright, Joyce Robinson
Cecilia Ross.

The course is designed around a
model first created for veterans of
World War II, a way of helping
them adjust after the war to civil-
ian life through a process of posi-
tive esteem-building. By giving
students tools for use in their self-
development, practice in safe envi-
ronments and responsibility for
their actions, the program attempts
to prepare its students for the
reality of the job market.

Through feedback and encour-
agement, overseen by trained life-
skills staff, students of Pathways
learn to do things effectively.
of the requirements of the course
is for students to further their

education; another involves expo-

sure to computers and their uses,
Simulated job interviews on video
help students overcome fear in
stressful situations and demonstrate
the importance of being able to
communicate clearly.

‘The program was brought to B.C.
about two years ago by Madaline
Dunkley, who was a graduate of
the successful New Start program
which had been running in
Saskatchewan and Alberta for the
previous 19 years. Dunkley based

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The most recent group of students to finish Path
administered by the Kermode Friendship Centre an
and graduation ceremonies Sept. 20.

ways, a training and self-development program
d funded by Canada Employment, held their

her approach on humanistic views
of education.

Humanistic psychology, as pres-
ented by well-known psychologists
Abraham Maslow and'Carl Rogers,
was developed to encourage people
through positive esteem-building
— called by the psychologists
"self-actualization" — to reach
their full potential. It is based on
the use of experience rather than
theory.

Sondra Fifi has become one of |

the life-skills coaches for Pathways
in Terrace. Previously a "domestic
engineer" and mother of three, she
began looking for employment but
found she had few marketable
skills to offer in her job search.
After going through Pathways,
Sondra felt it was so worthwhile
that she decided to become a life-
skills coach and part of the pro-

gram. The job brought out her .

natural leadership qualities and
compassion as she helped the
program stuaentis to become
responsible for themselves.
Sondra went through an intensive
three-month course in Edmonton
last year to become a fully-trained
life-skills coach. Working with her

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in Pathways are Flora Muldoe and

Ron Jacobs, Co-coaches are local

women, Jackie Stelmacher and
Teresa Robinson, who recently
graduated from a course run out of
Vancouver.

Pathways is offered through the

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Kermode Friendship Centre in
eight-month cycles. Information is
available from the Terrace Canada
Employment Centre, and applica-
tions for the course can be picked
up at the Kermode Friendship
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