Providing learner-centred environments to develop your potential

WorkBC is your direct access to the world of work in British Columbia. Its key goal is to help all British Columbians successfully navigate B.C.’s labour market.

WorkBC connects job seekers and employers – helping people find jobs, explore career options and improve their skills, and helping employers find the right talent and grow their businesses.

An inclusive and diverse employment centre.

Serving clients in the Eastern Fraser Valley and Fraser Canyon area, Career Cafe supports those who experience multiple barriers to employment.

Career Café offers services to people living in Hope, Agassiz, Harrison, Boston Bar, Yale, Spuzzum, Sunshine Valley and Manning Park.

Offering customized employment plans so you can take an active role in your jouney to employment.

Employers across Canada report serious challenges with hiring and maintaining workers. This is especially true in rural communities. Yet the unemployment rates for underrepresented groups —such as Indigenous Peoples and persons with disabling conditions — remain high. To investigate the factors helping and hindering the employment success of such groups, Free Rein Associates has partnered with Life Strategies Ltd. for an exciting research project: Diversity Disconnect.

Our goal is to gather insights and stories from underrepresented employees at any stage of employment and rural employers in order to uncover the disconnect and bridge the divide.

The Right Fit program facilitates supported employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

An increasing number of employers are looking to hire people experiencing disabilities due to labour shortages in key sectors, a move towards more inclusive workplaces and other factors. For many employers, this requires the ability to look past stereotypical preconceptions regarding this largely untapped labour pool, and ‘The Right Fit’ program was designed to help. The program provides guidance in recruitment, retention and finding the best match for both job seekers and employers.

Whether you’re looking to hire or a person with a disability looking for employment, get in touch with The Right Fit today!

Mobile devices like smartphones and tablets are putting access to health care directly in our hands, however, for many people, this technology is unavailable. Through the Care Connections program, we are offering smartphones to increase access to health and social services for historically marginalized communities

A limited number of smartphones are available first-come, first-serve for people who self identify as living with a disability, are unemployed, and do not currently own a smartphone. There are no restrictions to use of the phones and participants keep the phone after the program completion.