Service
WorkBC Centre - Salt Spring Island
Provided by Beacon Community Services
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WorkBC Centre - Salt Spring Island
Provides support to help job seekers who are unemployed or precariously employed find and maintain employment and improve employment readiness. Individuals must be legally allowed to work in BC. Online services include career exploration and labour market information, job search resources, webinars, and self-assessment tools. Offers job search workshops, essential skills training for employment readiness, short-term training to meet minimum entry requirements or develop specific skills for a job or an industry, and self-employment services. Also offers case management and one-to-one employment planning services to individuals needing more guidance and support, and delivers skills training programs to prepare vulnerable British Columbians for entry, or return to, sustainable employment. May provide supplemental services such as customized job placement and work experience placement, as well as specialized employment and training programs for clients with significant barriers to employment, including for youth, individuals with disabilities, immigrants, refugees, and refugee claimants, people recovering from substance use or mental health issues, and women fleeing family violence, survivors of violence and/or abuse, sexual assault, or with histories of abuse or trauma; programs may be delivered in partnership with community agencies. For eligible individuals, also provides wage subsidy services, financial support for apprenticeships, and financial assistance for dependent care, transportation to job interviews, and tools. Self-serve resource area, open to any person in BC, provides career and job search resources, job postings, career-related books and labour market information, and access to computers, internet, phone, photocopiers, and scanners. Services are free of charge. Referral accepted from self or other. Registration is online or in-person. Hours are 9 am to 5 pm Tuesdays and Thursdays, and 10:30 am to 6:30 pm Wednesdays. Funded by Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction (MSDPR).
Website
Contact
- Phone: 250-931-7687
- Phone: 1-888-993-2299
- Fax: 250-931-7685
- Email: info-fulford-ganges@workbc.ca
Address
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268 Fulford-Ganges Road
Salt Spring Island, BC, V8K 2K6
Mailing Address
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c/o Beacon Community Services, 268 Fulford-Ganges Road
Salt Spring Island, BC, V8K 2K6