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To best understand the best practice approach Epic utilizes in the delivery of its employment and career transition services one must first consider the philosophy that has generated the curriculum and motivates the delivery of our services. Epic's own practices epitomize those techniques developed and sponsored by WlB/WtW. Our approach comes only after years of working with JTPA/WlA in the same capacity as is proposed under this RFP. Epic is the current service provider for Santa Aha. Job Search workshops must be unique and flexible to meet the clients' needs for job readiness. Job Search must be results orientated. Introducing the proposed workshops requires the teaching of"accountability." This accountability translates into job accountability and must start in the classroom setting. Clients will become intimate with the notion of self-sufficiency. This is achieved by achng immediately and creating urgency in j ob readiness and the j ob search process. It is Epic's goal to deliver services to a population that will ultimately become self-reliant and who are taught how to utilize available resources while they make wise decisions and take responsibility for their own future. Our workshops aim to produce clients whose self-esteem increases along with their ultimate employability. Clients understand and fear less the basis for talcing risks. To accomplish our mission, Epic targets the clients' strengths with positive language and active encouragement. By presenting, practicing, and applying requisite skills in the classroom setting, clients are enabled to become independent and able to continue utilizing the effective strategy and skills developed while a participant in our workshops. Our "deliverable" is the client's ultimate ability to draw upon the knowledge gained in our workshop today, tomorrow, and well in to the future. Tiffs deliverable empowers a participant to remain competitive as well as adaptable in our changing economy. Furthermore, it reduces the duplication of services over the long-term. If Santa Ana together with Epic continues to develop and to foster the desire to learn, clients will reap a life-long benefit. Job Search must be viewed as a process, not a product. Through our workshops, clients recognize the importance of learning by actually doing. In a sense, clients learn through a series of workshops that require "hands-on" their own lives, and their own futures.