Workshops and Training

Getting Ahead.... in a just-gettin'-by world: Building your resources for a better life

Getting Ahead is a free programme designed to help people in financial hardship build a path to a better future. The programme is part of the "Bridges Out of Poverty" community change model.

Participants will:

• Investigate their own situations
• Leave the workshop with valuable knowledge and tools
• Create their own action plans and goals

Register Today!

Getting Ahead is offered several times a year, the programme runs for three weeks

• Monday through Thursday, 9:30am to 2:30pm
• Free programme includes lunch and snacks
• Child care and transportation supports may be available

For more information, please contact:
Terri Townsley, Employment Facilitator
T 519.823.7887 or 1.800.265.7294  x 3660
E territ@wellington.ca

Circles 

Circles Guelph Wellington is a community-based initiative that creates relationships across economic boundaries. It matches people of low-income who have attended the Getting Ahead program with people of middle and upper income who have attended bridges training.

Circles is a high-impact, 18-month-long voluntary strategy designed to:

• Provide emotional and practical support
• Assist with complex issues
• Build the "social capital" of people living in low income situations
• Show the community the very real barriers holding people in poverty
• Walk with people in poverty and support positive changes in their lives.

The Circles program has been used in dozens of communities in the US and Canada. It is a proven and credible program that makes real and on-going change for individuals and our community.

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Workshops  

Workshops are free and available to Ontario Works Clients of Guelph and Wellington County. Click below for workshop descriptions.

To register for a workshop:
T 519.823.7887  or 1.800.265.7294  x3600
E theerc@wellington.ca