Helping Spirit Lodge Society – Visions and Decisions Pre-Employment Program
(July 1, 2010 – December 3, 2010)

The Visions and Decisions Pre Employment program is a 17-week program designed to enhance employability skills for Aboriginal women with multiple barriers to employment. The program provides pre-employment services to Aboriginal women that include counselling, job practicum, upgrading, computer training, life skills, and therapeutic and cultural workshops.

Post-Basic Early Childhood Education Program – Native Education College
(July 1, 2011 – March 31, 2012)

The Aboriginal Post-Basic Early Childhood Education Diploma offers a stimulating and empowering program that includes a balance of classroom academic studies and hands-on practical experience in licensed inclusive childcare settings. The program consists of the combined post-basic diploma specialties in both Special Needs ECE and Infant and Toddler ECE.

The training program runs for 7 months full time. The program consists of two semesters of 4 courses and one semester of two courses including a practicum.

Summer Student Employment Program

The summer student employment program hires secondary and post secondary students for up to four months from May to end of August each year.  Employers provide students with meaningful work experiences at either an entry or more advanced level.  Usually each organization is funded for one student except for the group projects.  The one group project at UBC Museum of Anthropology, the Native Youth Program, hires 4 secondary students to learn about their culture and to lead museum tours and one post secondary student for the program coordinator position. The second program was a summer day camp program at Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society where five secondary and post secondary students were hired to lead group activities and outings for East Vancouver Aboriginal children. 

Other organizations that were funded for this program in summer 2009 were Native Education College, Naut’sa mawt Tribal Council, Healing Our Spirit Society, Nicola Valley Institute of Technology (Vancouver Campus), Vancouver Native Health Society, Tale’awtxw Aboriginal Capital Corporation, Metro Vancouver and Constant Arts Society.