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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting –March 5, 2010 <br /> <br />6. NEW BUSINESS <br /> <br />D. Airport Economic Development Area <br /> <br />(3) continued… <br /> <br />about this wonderful program. Project Impact <br />is a program for people or at risk that have <br />fallen through the cracks and are now trying <br />to pick them self’s up but are finding it <br />difficult because of their barriers in there <br />way. With no hope they’ll find themselves <br />back in the same position they were in <br />before. That’s were Project Impact Job <br />Readiness Program come into play. <br /> <br />They now have a program like no other that <br />not only talk the talk but walk the walk. <br />When I first came to Project Impact I was <br />looking for a job but I received more than a <br />job. I’m sure you the fish story give a man a <br />fish he’ll eat for a day teach a man to fish <br />he’ll eat for an life time. Well that’s exactly <br />what Project Impact is doing training there <br />students to become B.E.E.T.s (Best <br />Employee Ever Trained). Had they given me <br />a job when I first came through their doors I <br />would just have been another employee and <br />seeing that they are people at risk to <br />complete a job. We have to become better <br />and compete at a higher level than the next <br />applicant. Project Impact has given us the <br />tools were we can compete with others. <br /> <br /> <br />Wallace Williams: My main reason for <br />writing this is to make sure this needed <br />program stay in our community and not <br />l <br />sweep it under the tabe because it would be <br />detrimental to the hope of those that need it <br />for a second chance in society to prove that <br />they can be productive citizen as well as <br />those with risk. But most importantly to <br /> 62 <br /> <br />