Eligibility requirements:

• Employment Insurance (EI) clients, including those whose EI benefit period ended within the previous 60 months, are eligible.

• Either unemployed or precariously employed.

• Currently a resident of British Columbia, possessing either Permanent Resident status, Canadian citizenship, or refugee status with protected person designation.

• BCEA PWD and BCEA non-PWD clients are also eligible

Admissions Requirements:

• Living in BC

• Not receiving duplicative financial supports from another provincially or federally funded labour market program, though may be receiving complementary, non - duplicative financial supports from other programs, such as WorkBC, that enable or enhance program participation;

• Unemployed or Precariously Employed; and

• Individual who self-identifies as facing two or more of the following barriers to employment:

a. housing instability

b. recovering from addiction

c. mental health challenges

d. lack of recent and/or Canadian work experience

e. lack of basic employment skills

f. limited literacy, financial literacy, or digital literacy skills

g. limited English language skills

h. having less than a Grade 12 education

Being a:

A. Visible Minority, Recent Immigrant, Refugee; or

B. Young Adult at Risk; or

C. Older Worker; or

D. Survivor of Violence and/or Abuse; or

E. Person with Disabilities.

CONTACT INFO:

604-596-7722 (Ext: 614, 177)