“Bringing Community to Your Door really opened my eyes to just how many people are in need. Nothing brings me more joy than seeing the smiling faces when I pull up with a tasty meal.”
— Naomi, Bringing Community to Your Door Coordinator

"Brave Beginners is a great program that is helping me and my daughter to improve our personal and working skills in addition with financial support for training. Bethel and Harshil have been very kind, patient and supportive. We are so much grateful to them and the program."

"I was very impressed with the level of service provided by the Skills Centre. I was able to find full-time employment in my field within a month of completion of my courses. I highly recommend taking advantage of what the Skills Centre has to offer."

"From the moment I began my employment journey with the Skills Centre, Jennifer has provided a safe space for me to face my fears and push my boundaries. She has been incredibly patient and empathetic in helping me work through my employment-related anxieties. She has helped me find confidence and a sense of professionalism in myself that I didn’t know I had. She has not only been an amazing employment coach but an amazing role model as well."

"This program has been life changing for me."

"The skills and insights that I gained has positively changed every aspect of my life and reshaped my future. The kind, compassionate and knowledgeable facilitators created a safe, pleasant, and supportive environment to discover the kind of future that I have always dreamed about, but not had the skills nor confidence to pursue."

"SOVA gave me the confidence to overcome my barriers to employment. During and after SOVA my barriers and obstacles to employment became opportunities and possibilities."

"I feel I can better represent myself when interacting with a supervisor or co-worker. I feel more confident of how to express myself better. I am feeling more positive. I would recommend this workshop for sure. I found it very enjoyable and encouraging." 

"I have learned so very much from this program-- so much more than I ever could have imagined. You have been so helpful and have pushed me to try things and do things that I never thought I would. I am very grateful for having had this experience, just very grateful."

"Through this program I was able to get certifications with WHIMIS, Serving It Right, and Food Safe. I have been supported through my entire journey by everyone I met through these programs! I now have my confidence and self esteem that had slipped out from me due to my age. Everyone has been patient, flexible, and kind!"

"I was offered professional support while figuring out my path, and eventually I was supported in a program that works with a more mature age of people trying to get back into employment."

"Knowing my job application skills were rusty and needed to be fine-tuned, I joined the Mature Workers program. As well as providing some guidance in updating skills, the staff has assisted in financial support for further courses and partnering with other community agencies. Many thanks to the staff of the Skills Centre."

"I sure appreciate the expertise, support and knowledge the staff of the Skills Centre has provided me with.  After recently retiring from long-time full time employment, I knew I was ready to embark on another employment related journey and I was up for it."

"If you're up for challenging yourself in a supported environment, check out the Skills Centre since they have much more to offer to help you realize your dreams and full potential."

"At HEART, I was validated and valued in a way myself and experiences have never been. I was able to shed some of the guilt and shame I carried, and while it will take further daily practice, I feel a sense of strength and hope within me that I have never felt before."

"I will never forget this experience and ‘thank you’ doesn’t begin to express my gratitude. I have new tools to deal with anxiety, burn out, and relationships, I have a better sense of self, where I am and where I’d like to be and how to get there, my confidence is growing, and I have a better knowledge of the ‘problems’ holding me back so I can address them moving forward (alone or in counselling)."

"I felt comfortable in each environment – supported, validated, and valued. Being surrounded by so many strong, supportive women was healing of its own kind."

"The HEART program has allowed me to spend more time healing in four weeks than I would normally get in a whole year (if not more)."

"I want to thank Jen for seeing a need in our community and working hard on this program as a means to help with that need. I have never before been able to access resources like these to work through my trauma, and receiving a wage while I do so enable me to fully focus and get the most out of those resources."

"This program has so many different facets. It really taught me new coping skills in areas I’d never thought of looking at."

"So much support. I felt safe, supported and calm."

"The program exceeded my expectations in how each piece complimented the other. The support each professional delivered was amazing."


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