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South Bend Redevelopment Commission Regular Meeting –March 5, 2010 they were in before. That’s were Project Impact Job Readiness Program come into play. They now have a program like no other that not only talk the talk but walk the walk. When I first came to Project Impact I was looking for a job but I received more than a job. I’m sure you the fish story give a man a fish he’ll eat for a day teach a man to fish he’ll eat for an life time. Well that’s exactly what Project Impact is doing training there students to become B.E.E.T.s (Best Employee Ever Trained). Had they given me a job when I first came through their doors I would just have been another employee and seeing that they are people at risk to complete a job. We have to become better and compete at a higher level than the next applicant. Project Impact has given us the tools were we can compete with others. Wallace Williams: My main reason for writing this is to make sure this needed program stay in our community and not l sweep it under the tabe because it would be detrimental to the hope of those that need it for a second chance in society to prove that they can be productive citizen as well as those with risk. But most importantly to make these people productive people in our community. I know just like any other (community) city, county, state, township act... That we are in an economic crisis of budget restraints of what projects to fund eliminate or reduce. Well I know we need grant money to build and fix up our community. But by building any thing in life you have to start with the foundation. Which the foundation is our people in the community none because without jobs and skills to get jobs and a chance to show they can be productive and do the jobs and a 54