Marketable Job Skills In the Skills Acquisition programs, inmates learn practical skills that prepare them to earn a living and become active, earning members in the job market upon their release from prison. With the help of NLF training personnel, the vocational training we provide helps inmates choose and learn marketable skills that they enjoy and can use productively as a trade. NLF finds the money spent on this program to be of immeasurable value because skilled former inmates normally find it relatively easy to re-integrate in their respective communities. They gain self- esteem and because they are gainfully employed, the community is at ease and should not feel threatened by former inmates.

Employment Aids Acceptance The benefits gained from this program have immeasurable value. Their acquired skills allow inmates to re-integrate more easily into their respective communities. Gainful employment increases their self-esteem, and they feel better about themselves as they fulfill a useful role in the community. This increases the likelihood of perpetuating the role and decreases the likelihood of the former inmate repeating a crime that would remove him from his current position of acceptance.  The community also feels less threatened; the reformed inmate is regarded as a useful contributor to the community instead of an object of fear and suspicion.  Thus, the community more easily accepts the return of the individual into society, and the transition becomes easier.