Author Archives: Employment Facilitator

Work Placement Success!

Abby is enjoying her sales associate position at Rossy. Congrats Abby on your work placement. 

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Food Drive Success!

The Youth are Working participants delivered the donations that they collected from their food drive to the Community Food Sharing Association today. They managed to collect 6 boxes of non-perishable donations and a monetary donation of $245.00. We commend the … Continue reading

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Food Drive!

Youth are Working participants are holding a food drive in support of Community Food Sharing Association who lost a significant amount of their food resources to a fire on Jan. 30. Please drop off any non-perishable food donations to 23 … Continue reading

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Week Two Complete!

The Youth are Working participants ended their second week of the program by participating in an Escape Room activity. Learned lots about working in a team, problem solving, and communication! Plus, it was lots of fun!

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Week One Complete!

The Youth are Working participants ended their first week with a really fun teamwork activity. This team won the prize for tallest marshmallow/toothpick tower!

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Youth are Working 2019!

The Youth are Working 2019 participants started the program on January 8! What a great group! Really excited for the next 5 weeks of group based employability skills.

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YAW Graduation!

Congratulations to the Youth are Working Skills Link 2018 participants on completing the program! Best of luck in all future endeavours! Looking forward to the next intake for January 2019!

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Youth are Working Applications are OPEN!

  The Waypoints Employment and Outreach office is currently seeking participants for its Youth are Working Skills Link program starting January 2019! If you meet the criteria, please apply! If you have any questions, please contact us at 709 738 … Continue reading

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Employers Wanted!

The next Youth are Working program will begin in January 2019. By mid February, the participants will be looking to start their work placements. For any employers who are interested, the program subsidizes 50% of the participants’ wage (based on … Continue reading

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Giving Back!

Some of the Youth are Working participants volunteered their time at Bridges to Hope this morning. Giving back feels good!

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