Offers financial assistance and support for individuals who are eligible for recredentialing or alternative career training. Services include information about recredentialing for a specific occupation; career opportunities (within a field or alternative caree...

Provides financing tools, services, and supports in the areas of Aboriginal banking, green business, housing, labour banking, impact metrics and measurability, not-for-profits, social enterprise and social purpose real estate. Startup Business and Microloans p...

An in-person, 10-week training program for immigrants and other newcomers age 19 and older to become a small business owner. Participants will learn about business plan development and Canadian business practices through one-on-one coaching and group workshops...

Provides individualized support to help job seekers find and maintain employment and improve employment readiness. Self-serve resource area provides career and job search resources, job postings, career-related books and labour market information, and access t...

Provides individualized support to help job seekers ages 16 and over find and maintain employment and improve employment readiness. Clients must be unemployed or precariously employed and legally allowed to work in BC. Self-serve resource area provides career ...

Provides support to help job seekers who are unemployed or precariously employed and legally allowed to work in BC, find and maintain employment and improve employment readiness. Online services include career exploration and labour market information, job sea...

Provides one-on-one settlement and employment services to permanent residents, new immigrants, and refugees, temporary foreign workers, naturalized Canadian citizens seeking employment, provincial nominees awaiting permanent residency, post-secondary internati...

Provides immigrant youth ages 10 to 18 who are new to Canada a safe place to learn about Canadian culture, their community, and practice their English. Activities include skills development, engaged workshops that deal with everyday life, culinary activities, ...

Supports the social and economic integration of newcomers who are not eligible to receive services from federally-funded programs. Program serves refugee claimants, temporary foreign workers, post-secondary international students who are eligible to work in Ca...

Connects permanent residents, temporary foreign workers, immigrants, refugee, and refugee claimant job seekers with services that meet both their employment and settlement needs. Provides information about BC's job market, guidance and support on settlement-re...

Supports the social and economic integration of newcomers in Vancouver who are not eligible to receive services from federally funded programs. Program serves refugee claimants, temporary foreign workers, Ukrainians who have arrived in Vancouver through the CU...

Offers a nine-month pre-employment program for immigrant, refugee claimant, or naturalized women who are interested in the tech field. Provides eight weeks of classes and five to 10 weeks of part-time coding and design classes, including introduction to web de...

Newcomers to Canada have the opportunity to share their skills and learn new skills through volunteering. Local residents are invited to share their time, skills, and knowledge; gain new experiences and obtain references; build social and professional networks...

Supports the social and economic integration of Francophone newcomers who are not eligible to receive services from federally funded programs. Program serves refugee claimants, temporary foreign workers, post-secondary international students, provincial nomine...

Provides pre-arrival and post-arrival settlement services to French-speaking permanent residents. Services include initial orientation, needs assessments by settlement officers, information and referral, employment services and community connections. Provides ...

Provides free employment connection services for individuals in construction and skilled trades who are ready to work. Services are based on each individual's needs and include one-on-one job coaching and employment counselling, job search assistance, job plac...

Provides individualized support to help job seekers find and maintain employment and improve employment readiness. Clients must be unemployed or precariously employed and legally allowed to work in BC. Self-serve resource area provides career and job search re...

Offers settlement services supporting new immigrants in adjusting to life in Canada by providing help with applying to all Canadian federal and provincial benefits; basic language translation/interpretation services; food aid through referrals to community pro...

Supports the Francophone and Francophile business community in BC. Offers specialty services for entrepreneurs, businesswomen, newcomers, and youth. Also works with businesses to facilitate hiring decisions and retention of Francophone newcomers in the labour ...

Offers free French-language settlement, integration, and employment assistance to Francophone immigrants who settle in BC; available to permanent residents, temporary foreign workers and students, refugees (protected persons and convention refugees), and Canad...

Holds free legal clinics at different ISS of BC offices in Metro Vancouver (Vancouver, New Westminster, Coquitlam, Surrey, Langley, Maple Ridge, Burnaby, and Richmond) to provide free legal information and advice to newcomers to Canada who have faced or are fa...

A self-employment training program with industry experts that teach adults age 18 and older how to run a business; in-person, virtual, and outreach services are offered. Participants are coached to translate business concepts into viable business launches thro...

A free in-person, 10-week training program for immigrants and other newcomers age 19 and older to become a small business owner. Participants will learn about business plan development and Canadian business practices through one-on-one coaching and group works...

Provides opportunities for involvement and engagement of newcomers to Canada. Offers mentorship around employment search, employment readiness, and a community kitchen.

Supports the social and economic integration of newcomers in Vancouver. Free settlement services include orientation, information and referral to community services, basic employment services, Canadian culture and citizenship classes, financial literacy traini...