Bridging for Women
Bridging for Women—Stepping-Up—assists women to gain practical skills and English upgrading to overcome employment and social barriers and find and keep a job.
- 21 week program: 17 weeks of classroom instruction, a volunteer experience and 4 weeks work experience placement
- Women receive life skills training, counselling and advocacy, English instruction, a volunteer experience, job shadowing, job search skills, and gain Canadian work experience
- Training in First Aid, Foodsafe and cashiering, WHMIS (Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System) and Personality Dimensions
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Who Can Apply?
Women who are:
- Receiving Income Assistance (welfare)
- Survivors of physical, emotional or sexual abuse, or have experienced and/or witnessed violence in situations of war or civil unrest
- Speak English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as an Additional Language (EAL) at intermediate level
- Landed immigrants, citizens or refugee claimants accepted for landed status
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Contact Information:
#601-333 Terminal Avenue
Vancouver, BC V6A 2L7
Phone 604-684-2561
E-mail stepping_up@issbc.org
Funded By:
Ministry of Employment and Income Assistance
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