Career Compass is a FREE employment-readiness program that helps participants strengthen their employability skills, explore career options, and build the confidence and tools needed to find and maintain employment.

Find Your Direction. Build Your Future. 

This 7-week Job Finding Club combines employability skills development, job search and career exploration, workplace certifications, and experiential learning.

• Modules: Employability Skills | Success Inventory | Workplace Communication | Conflict Resolution | Goal Setting | Job Search | Career Exploration

• Job Search & Career Exploration: Resume Writing | Successful Interviewing | Networking | Accessing the Hidden Job Market | Career Decision Making

• Certificates: WHMIS | OH&S | Mental Health First Aid | Emergency First Aid | Money Matters

• After successful completion of the modules and certificates, learners who are ready for transition to employment will participate in a mentored, 3-week work placement

Next Start Date: Check back for future program dates.

Interested in this program? Add your name to the Career Compass: Job Finding Club referral/waitlist.

Breaking barriers. Building futures. Turning potential into possibility.

Connex: Breaking Barriers is a career development program designed to support individuals reintegrating into their communities after incarceration or living with the stigma of a criminal record. This initiative provides a structured, supportive pathway to employment through a blend of pre-employment training, wellness supports, and hands-on work placements.

Participants gain vital employability and social-emotional skills, receive individualized wrap-around supports, and earn recognized certifications to enhance job readiness. The program concludes with a three-week work placement, developed in collaboration with inclusive local employers, helping participants build experience, references, and confidence for long-term success.

By bridging the gap between untapped talent and labour market needs, Breaking Barriers-Connex strengthens communities, supports inclusive hiring, and fosters meaningful reintegration.

 This 22-week program is comprised of personal and professional development workshops and the following modules and certificates:

• Modules: Employability Skills Training | Employer Expectations | Customer Service | Healthy Relationships | Job Search & Career Exploration | Community Engagement

• Workshops: WHMIS, OH&S, First Aid & CPR, Mental Health Awareness, Personality Dimensions, Diversity in the Workplace, Bully-free Workplaces, Computer Basics, Money Matters, Waste Management and Fire & Life Safety.

• After successful completion of the modules and certificates, youth who are ready for transition to employment will participate in a mentored, 3-week work placement

Next Start Date: Check back for future program dates.

Want to be notified about the next offering? Join our waitlist.

ENGAGE is a free, supportive program that helps participants build confidence, strengthen wellbeing, and increase community connection. Using a flexible, individualized approach, the program combines group learning and one-on-one support to develop life skills, coping strategies, and readiness for community engagement or employment.

‍Building Confidence. Strengthening Connections.

This 11-week program is offered on a part-time basis [3 days per week] that will provide participants with a combination of health, wellness, employability, life skills, computer, and financial literacy skills.  Participants are encouraged to participate at a level that is tailored to their needs.

• Modules: Employability Skills Training | Effective Communication | Job Search & Career Exploration | Goal Setting | Community Engagement

• Workshops: WHMIS, OH&S, Money Matters and Personality Dimensions

• After successful completion of the modules and certificates, learners who are ready for transition to employment will participate in a mentored, 2-week work placement.

‍Confidence, connection, and community.

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Build skills. Gain confidence. Get hired. Our Hospitalityworx program prepares you for a meaningful career in tourism and hospitality sector, equipping you with the skills and knowledge to work in various roles.

Futureworx has created a link to employment program that provides FREE training to prepare individuals for employment in the hospitality sector, with a focus on customer service, workplace skills, and career readiness.

This 12-week program combines classroom, self-directed, and hands-on learning. The comprehensive curriculum is comprised of employability skills workshops and the following sector-specific modules and certificates:

• Modules: First Impressions | Customer Service | Employer Expectations | Roles & Responsibilities | Health & Safety Practices | Intro to Computer Literacy | Retail Procedures

• Workshops: WHMIS, OH&S, Emergency First Aid /CPR Level C, Mental Health Awareness, Food Safety, Personality Dimensions, and Diversity in the Workplace.

• After successful completion of the modules and certificates, learners who are ready for transition to employment will participate in a mentored, 2-week work placement

To be eligible, applicants must be unemployed and be physically capable of meeting the demands of the program. 

Next Start Date: Check back for future program dates.

Want to be notified about the next offering? Join our waitlist.

Lifeworx is a free employment-readiness program for adults aged 45+ who are navigating career change or re-entering the workforce. The program values the experience participants bring while building confidence, employability skills, and pathways to meaningful work, entrepreneurship, or new opportunities.

Valuing Experience. Building New Futures.

 This 12-week program is comprised of personal and professional development workshops and the following modules and certificates:

·       Modules: Employability Skills Training | Entrepreneurship | Job Search & Career Exploration | Transition and Change

·       Workshops: WHMIS, OH&S, First Aid & CPR Level C, Mental Health Awareness, Personality Dimensions, Diversity in the Workplace, and Computer Basics.

After successful completion of the modules and certificates, learners who are ready for transition to employment will participate in a mentored, 2-week work placement.

Build on your experience. Explore new opportunities.

Next Start Date: Check back for future program dates.

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Build skills. Gain confidence. Get hired. Our Warehouseworx program prepares you for a meaningful career in warehousing sector, equipping you with the skills and knowledge to work in various roles.

Futureworx has created a link to employment program that provides FREE training to prepare individuals for employment in shipping and receiving, inventory control, and material handling.    

This 14-week program combines classroom, self-directed, and hands-on learning. The comprehensive curriculum is comprised of employability skills workshops and the following sector-specific modules and certificates:

• Modules: Warehouse Operations | Communication | Warehouse Safety | Material Handling and Packing Equipment | Information Technology in Warehousing

• Workshops: WHMIS, OH&S, Emergency First Aid /CPR Level C, Mental Health Awareness, Worldhost, Forklift Operators Certificate, Fire Safety, Personality Dimensions, Computer Basics, Transportation of Dangerous Goods, Fall Protection, Bully-free Workplaces and Diversity in the Workplace.

• After successful completion of the modules and certificates, learners who are ready for transition to employment will participate in a mentored, 3-week work placement

To be eligible, applicants must be unemployed and be physically capable of meeting the demands of the program. 

Next Start Date: Check back for future program dates.

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Empowering Youth. Building Futures. Our Youthworx program supports youth to build confidence, skills, and a future they believe in.

Our Youthworx program has received funding through the Government of Canada’s Youth Employment and Skills Strategy [YESS]. YESS provides funding to organizations to deliver a variety of supports that help young people aged 15 to 30 overcome barriers to employment.

Youthworx offers skills training, paid work placements, and holistic supports. Thanks to this investment, 15 local youth will have the opportunity to build brighter, more empowered futures.  youth to gain the skills, tools, information, or work experience needed to transition into the labour market or return to education

This 19-week program is comprised of personal and professional development workshops and the following modules and certificates:

• Modules: Employability Skills Training | Entrepreneurship Skills Training | Job Search & Career Exploration | Volunteerism | Community Engagement

• Workshops: WHMIS, OH&S, First Aid & CPR Level C, Mental Health Awareness, Food Safety Training, Personality Dimensions, Diversity in the Workplace, Bully-free Workplaces, and Nova Scotia Best | SuperHost.

• After successful completion of the modules and certificates, youth who are ready for transition to employment will participate in a mentored, 3-week [paid] work placement

We strive to help youth overcome barriers to employment, with a particular focus on under-represented youth including Indigenous youth, 2SLGBTQI+, Black and other racialized youth, youth in care, and youth with disabilities. To be eligible, applicants must be between the ages of 16 – 30, not currently in school, and a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.

Next Start Date: Check back for future program dates.

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