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“One way to earn people’s trust, a foolproof way, is to treat them with dignity.” – Donna Hicks Looking back at the history of career development, we can see that...

Tech is no longer an isolated field, which means that workforce development programs must ensure their programs and services align with evolving tech needs and simultaneously prepare jobseekers with the...

When Nadia*, a mother of seven, came to Canada as a refugee, she sought out supports through a language and employment skills training program to help ease her transition. However,...

Quick! If I say Calgary, what is the first thing you think? Mountains? Stampede? Or was your first thought oil and gas? My guess is the latter, and no surprise....

Providers of career development assistance meet a wide variety of people who present a wide variety of employment problems. Some have lost their job and want a new one. Others...

Over the past few years, we have talked a lot about trauma-informed career development. It’s time to take that conversation to the decision makers and board members of organizations. Trauma-informed...

When community stakeholders work together on transformative workforce development, it eliminates duplication of effort, leverages the work of experts and closes gaps in service for jobseekers. Collaboration is the only...

Finding a job is challenging for everyone. Add in a disability or long-term health condition, and it can become even more challenging. It is not surprising, then, that graduates with...

 No one plans on getting sick or injured; it happens unexpectedly. For some clients, an injury or illness is a mere bump in the road and for others it is life-changing....

For those of us working on the front line in the human services field during COVID-19, the urgency of providing services with a trauma-informed approach has never been more obvious....