Career Cafe - An Employment Program for Individuals Facing Barriers to Work
Education, Employment, Financial, and Immigrant and Refugee Services
Provided by Free Rein Associates Ltd.
Career Café is a ministry funded pre-employment community center in Hope BC.
Career Café is a ministry funded pre-employment community center in Hope BC. Services are provided on a walk-in basis, no referral required but inquiries are accepted over the phone or by text.
The Career Cafe service clients who face multiple barriers and who are unemployed or precariously unemployed looking for work. They provide one-on-one workshops and job matching supports with incentives. They will also pay for some supports including some transportation and funding for any Short-Term Certificate Training needed for employment.
The Career Cafe has a Cell phone Care Connections program where they offer free cell phone with 4 month top ups to those who have no call phone and offer laptop loans for employment search. They also have on site a Queer Mentor and Indigenous Elder in office each week. Along with our Mental Health First Aid Facilitator. They connect clients with Mental Health referrals and work with their sister Literacy program Read Right Society and Hope Work BC office who also fall under the Free Rein Associates umbrella contracts.
To be eligible individuals must:
The Career Cafe service clients who face multiple barriers and who are unemployed or precariously unemployed looking for work. They provide one-on-one workshops and job matching supports with incentives. They will also pay for some supports including some transportation and funding for any Short-Term Certificate Training needed for employment.
The Career Cafe has a Cell phone Care Connections program where they offer free cell phone with 4 month top ups to those who have no call phone and offer laptop loans for employment search. They also have on site a Queer Mentor and Indigenous Elder in office each week. Along with our Mental Health First Aid Facilitator. They connect clients with Mental Health referrals and work with their sister Literacy program Read Right Society and Hope Work BC office who also fall under the Free Rein Associates umbrella contracts.
To be eligible individuals must:
- Reside in BC
- Must be unemployed or precariously unemployed
- Face two barriers: Housing, recovering from Addictions, Criminal Record, new Canadian, no Canadian work experience, less than grade 12 education, survivor of domestic violence, have a self identified disability, lack of basic work experience, limited literacy or digital literacy, order worker, or young adult at risk.
This program serves residents of Harrison Mills, Agassiz, Laidlaw area, Hope, Sunshine Valley, Manning Park, Yale, Spuzzum, and Boston Bar.
604-991-2278
Public email: info@freereinassociates.ca
Website: https://www.freereinassociates.ca/
895A Third Avenue, Hope, British Columbia
Service is available in English.
Cost: No cost
Availability
Service area: Agassiz, Boston Bar, Hope + show cities
Service Types Provided
Education
- Vocational Education / Training
Employment
- Employment Support: Employment Support - Disability, Employment Support: Mental Health, and Recovery Employment Support - Addictions
- Foreign Credentials & Employment
Financial
Immigrant and Refugee Services
Ways to Access
- Provided 1:1 in-person
The listing of this service in Pathways is not a recommendation or endorsement by Pathways.