Workplace Essential Skills and Training Program

Beating the odds

Lindsay Folland wasn't supposed to make it this far.

“When I was a child I was given a formal diagnosis that I would never be beyond an elementary school level,” she says. “I was told I am too socially impaired to have any meaningful relationships and I would need 24-7 support to bathe, dress, and eat.”

However, the people who told her these things, she says, were “thankfully and obviously not psychic."

Lindsay has been in what she says is a loving relationship for two years now, and has been employed for almost three years in the field of mental health.

Island Institutions Team Up to Host Virtual Career Fair

Beyond 2020 seeks to match employers with qualified students in an all-day event on November 19, 2020.

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Registration is now open for the first-ever multi-institutional virtual career fair on Vancouver Island.

Program Helps VIU Students Develop Commercial Enterprises

VIU business training program helps remove barriers to self-employment for persons with disabilities.

Vancouver Island University’s (VIU’s) Cooperative Entrepreneur Training Program (CETP) provides students with disabilities the skills they need to develop robust business plans and secure funding to launch their business initiatives.

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