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University and College Programs:
Aboriginal
Financial Management Certificate Program in Business Administration
2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver,
B.C. V7J 3H5
Phone: 604.986.1911
Fax: 604.984.1734
An innovative part-time, 20-month program offered by Capilano College in partnership with the Aboriginal Financial Officers Association of British Columbia. This program offers students working in the finance offices of First Nations to improve their professional skills by providing them with training in basic and intermediate accounting, computer applications, aboriginal and business law, strategic management and leadership and communications.
Adult
Basic Education
North Vancouver Campus: 983-7578
Email: sspires@capcollege.bc.ca
The Adult Basic Education (ABE) program enables you to upgrade your knowledge of English, mathematics, biology, chemistry, earth sciences, physics, geography, history, social studies and computers. The goals are: Preparation for employment, personal desire to upgrade or refresh mastery of a subject, secondary school qualifications demanded by employers, vocational training (including apprenticeships), career training, technical training, academic studies (including college and university programs).
Alternative
Career Training Program
Coordinator Terry Byrnes Phone: 604.984-1711
E-mail: tbyrnes@capcollege.bc.ca
The Alternative Career Training program is an employment exploration program with a unique focus and approach. The program is based on a developmental perspective and is committed to working with young adults with special learning needs.
Adult
Basic Education Programs
Phone: 604.527.5097
The Career and Employment Preparation program at Douglas College has been specially designed to assist people with barriers to employment. We'll show you how to use your skills and abilities to choose a career and help build your self-confidence to enter the work force or pursue further training. The program includes real-life, on-the-job experience. Program Location:New Westminster Campus Program Start Dates: Offered every January and September.
Career
and Employment Preparation Program for Adults with a Disability
Phone: 604.527.5846
This 14-week full-time program is designed to assist individuals with barriers to employment. Students identify a realistic, achievable career goal and make a plan to reach that goal. They will also learn and practice the skills to be successful in further vocational training. The program includes four weeks of work placement. Employment readiness skills are practiced in the classroom and demonstrated on the work placement. Students who successfully complete this program will receive a citation.
Douglas College Transition Planning
Phone: 604.527.5120
Transition Planning helps prospective students obtain additional information about these programs. Assists individuals in applying to the college and specific programs; interview and information sessions may also be established to help individuals select the most appropriate program.
Small
Business Entrepreneur Program (Certificate)
Phone: 604.323.5939 Gordon McFarlane
Fax: 604.323.5555
Email: gmcfarlane@langara.bc.ca
This program has been discontinued until January 2004.
Community
Economic Development
Email: cedadmin@sfu.ca
This Community Economic Development Centre website has, among its goals, those of publishing resource materials for the use of citizens and their communities, and linking CED people.
Community
Education Programs
Phone: 604.291.5145
Fax: 604.291.5238
Email: debbie_bell@sfu.ca
Central to the University's involvement is the belief that communities themselves know best what they need; that the role of the university is to foster development, supply some of the resources needed so the communities can move forward, and act as a catalyst for social change and personal transformation.
Learning
Strategies Group
Phone 604.291.5265
Fax 604.291.5153
Email: mark_frein@sfu.ca
A learning strategy for human resource development is a key part of your journey toward business goals. The Learning Strategies Group welcomes inquiries from companies interested in establishing learning partnerships for strategic learning consulting, customized credit and noncredit programs and courses, and intensive business education seminars.
University of British Columbia
UBC
Learning Exchange
121 Main Street Vancouver, BC V6A 2S5
Phone: 604.408.5164
Fax: 604.408.5192
Email: susan.sorrell@ubc.ca
A new community outreach initiative located in the Downtown Eastside area of Vancouver. The role of the Learning Exchange is to foster connections between people at UBC and people in the Downtown Eastside who share common interests.
School
of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP)
Phone: 604.822.5326
Email: rhoda@interchange.ubc.ca
A UBC program designed to challenge problems of sustainable social and economic development and to explore local and global paths toward achieving it; bringing new understanding to the interdependencies among the many variables that affect the design and planning of the built environment, the development and use of "natural capital," and the creation of wealth; Advancing society's capacity for strategic thought and action.
School of Social Work and Family Studies
2080 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Phone: 604.822.0782
Fax: 604.822.8656
Email: SocialWork.FamilyStudies@ubc.ca
Committed through its teaching, research and community service to excellence in the development, dissemination and application of knowledge, values and skills, relevant to social work and family studies. It is committed to principles of social and economic justice, equity and respect for the realities of diverse cultures and the strengths of civil society. Director's Office Graham Riches, Director
BC
Institute for Co-operative Studies
University of Victoria University House 2 - Room 109
PO Box 3060 STN CSC Victoria BC V8W 2Y2 Canada
Phone: 250-472-4539
Fax: 250-472-4541
E -mail: rochdale@uvic.ca
The British Columbia Institute for Co-operative Studies is a catalyst for research, learning, and teaching about co-operative thought and practice through the development of Co-operative Studies as an established field of inquiry. The Institute collaborates with other post-secondary institutions, the co-op sector, governments, individuals and communities interested in co-operative development.
An easily searchable database which contains the Institute's collected resources; synopses of reports, articles, papers, and books, both of our own material and other resources; information on courses in Co-operative Studies; announcements of conferences, seminars, and workshops open to the public; the BCICS Newsletter, with updates on Co-op activity and discussion of issues important to co-operators.
Vancouver Community College (VCC)
Business & Technical Writing Certificate Program
Program
Management Skills for Supervisors Certificate Program Program
Phone: 604.443.8668 - Anne Tollstam, Coordinator
Small Business Program
604.443.8670 Peggy Worobetz, Coordinator
A step-by-step, five-week program guides you through information on all pertinent topics required to successfully begin your own small business. Addresses topics such as Identifying and Marketing Business Opportunities, Bookkeeping, Financing and Business Strategy.
CPR & First Aid Program
Assistant: Sarah Mokaber, 604.443.8635
Learn the latest 2001 standards and earn a Canadian Red Cross certificate when successfully completing the following CPR and First Aid courses, valid for two years.
Foodsafe Program
Assistant: Evonne Fong, 604.443.8672 Call 604.443.8484
to register.
Foodsafe is a program in sanitary food handling to train restaurant and kitchen employees on the procedures and conditions necessary for the prevention of food-borne illnesses.
Worksafe Education Program
Coordinator: 604.443.8673 Program Assistant: Sarah
Mokaber, 604.443.8635
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