Category Archives: What’s Happening

Giselle gained a work placement at Piatto Pizzeria and Enoteca and has been learning the ins and outs of how a big restaurant kitchen runs. This experience has encouraged Giselle to consider completing a Food Safety certificate in the next … Continue reading →

Our Youth are Working participants are hard at work! Todd obtained an employment placement with The Organic Farm and is enjoying getting to use his green thumb! He is learning lots about the many different plants and enjoys making our … Continue reading →

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

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 →

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 →

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!

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!

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.

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!

  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 →