Employs inner city residents to clean streets and laneways of garbage, syringes, and other refuse. Serves Chinatown, Downtown Eastside, Gastown, Mount Pleasant, and Strathcona neighbourhoods. Job application form available online at https://www.unitedwecan.ca/...

Provincial membership association provides education, training, networking, and certification services to the BC career development sector. Hosts BC's annual Career Development Conference. Fee for membership. Hours are 9 am to 4:30 pm Monday to Friday. Nonprof...

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 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 programs to promote healthy active living among Indigenous and inner-city children and youth, and to foster employment and life skills for youth who face barriers. Programs include Indigenous cultural programs such as social connections through food s...

YWCA Aspire helps newcomer refugee women gain work experience, and includes paid work placement and follow-up support. YWCA Afghan Women's Employment (AWE) supports Afghan refugee self-identified women in exploring and securing careers or further education in ...

Provides specialized trauma-informed services to address immediate critical needs and systems navigation for newcomers with complex barriers to settlement. Services include emergency and transitional housing support; emotional and clinical counselling; case ma...

Provides opportunities for youth ages 16 to 19 who are not enrolled in school and have little or no job experience. Combines life skills training, employment readiness training, work experience, and consistent support and encouragement. Also supports employers...

Offers job training and transitional employment for individuals with multiple barriers to employment. Provides bridge employment to graduates of the Open Door Group trades employment programs by providing short-term employment contracts to build custom wood pr...

Supports women who are wishing to reduce their reliance on sex work and/or transition, retire, or exit from sex work. Stigma-free space for women's diverse experiences offers individualized capacity-building programming. Services include one-on-one support; sp...

Social enterprise provides urban agriculture education and employment for Vancouver's inner city residents. Community residents are trained and employed to construct, plant, maintain, and harvest the farm. Ten percent of crops go to food programs in the Downto...

A Christian-based organization that fosters work opportunities through the development of social enterprises for people facing multiple barriers such as physical disabilities, mental illness, homelessness, and addictions. Social enterprise initiatives include ...

Assists individuals with diverse abilities to prepare for, secure, and maintain competitive employment. Provides access to the support of an employment specialist for people who face persistent barriers to employment and may not be eligible for government fund...

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...

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 a free 12-week training program to young adults ages 18 to 29 for jobs in Early Childhood Education; hybrid course is offered in person and online. Participants acquire skills and certification for jobs as Early Childhood Education Assistants for chil...

Provides a free employment and skills training program for street-involved youth ages 19 to 30 who have multiple barriers to employment. Aims to facilitate entry into the labour force, foster long-term employment prospects, and build self-esteem. Offers basic ...

Serves as a connecting agency linking people with physical disabilities to activities, services, and programs which will allow them to become more active and involved in community life, helping them to consider recreation, training, education, and work. Serves...

Processes beverage containers on site, providing jobs for people with multiple barriers. Employees use non-motorized foot and bicycle carts to collect returnable containers from local businesses, apartment complexes, and special events and return them to the d...

National technology sector training and employment program for unemployed and underemployed individuals ages 18 and older who are eligible to work in Canada. Provides free three-month digital and professional skills training, and connects participants to caree...

Employment program for youth ages 15 to 24 who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness and looking to learn job skills and gain work experience while making money. Provides work in street beautification (street garbage removal, graffiti paint-over, posted bill...

Provides employment services to youth and adults ages 16 to 30. The drop-in resource centre provides computers with internet access, a fax machine, photocopier, telephone, local job postings, and job search resources. Case managers assist with career explorati...

Provides services for adults ages 19 and over with autism or other neurodevelopmental disabilities. Programs include a daily program and independent housing; intake form available online. PASS Marketplace is a social enterprise that provides supported employme...

The Prism Employment Support Service (ESS) is a strengths-based, trauma-informed employment support program for 2SLGBTQIA+ adults living in BC. Participants receive up to 12 one-to-one coaching sessions with a career case manager, as well as employment worksho...

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...