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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....

Each year during the month of November, there’s a celebration across the country. It doesn’t matter what time zone you’re in, or if you work or are affiliated with the...

Governments have a significant impact on career services, career pathways and career options for Canadians. That is why relationships between service providers and governments offer powerful opportunities for collaboration and...

“Hope is short-lived unless coupled with a desire for future worlds that are not depressing but instead so enticing that they might lead us to yearn for a new way...

“There can be no health without mental health.” – Prince et al., 2007 In the course of a day, career development professionals (CDPs) hear many stories from their clients –stories...

Recently, a job advertisement came across Liana’s desk as the Director of the University of the Fraser Valley’s Centre for Experiential and Career Education. It was the holy grail of...

When the pandemic hit in 2020, it had life-altering impacts for us all. Lives were lost, jobs were lost and learning opportunities were lost as well. Globally, we were all...