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Workshops
Workshops are free and available to Ontario Works Clients of Guelph and Wellington County. Click below for workshop descriptions.
| Employment Services Orientation |
| The Employment Services Orientation is an overview of the resources available through Ontario Works, in the City of Guelph and Wellington County. Some of the information Facilitators will review includes Employment Ontario Partners, Literacy and Basic Skills organizations, and Ontario Works services such as Housing, Employment, and Child Care programs. |
To register for a workshop:
Telephone: 519.823.7887 or 1.800.265.7294 x3600
Email: theerc@wellington.ca
Make Your Way Programme
This free programme is informal and interactive. Conversations take place in a confidential, relaxed environment, described as a “kitchen table” like approach. The programme starts with looking at “Picturing Your Life Now” to help you see where you are at and look at the direction where you want to go. Examples of some of the topics covered are:
- Change
- Understanding Poverty
- Self – exploration through a completion of a personal self-assessment
- Goal setting
Through this learning and the assessments, participants will be able to see a clearer path towards what their future may look like and set goals that will help them to move forward. This is a new programme in 2021 based on some of the principles of our past Getting Ahead programme and runs several times a year.
Currently Make Your Way is offered in a virtual format and runs for 1.5 hours each day over a two-week period. When in-person sessions resume, Make Your Way will be offered Monday through Thursday from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm over a three week period.
For more information, please contact:
Terri Townsley, Employment Facilitator
Telephone: 519.823.7887 or 1.800.265.7294 x 3660
Email: territ@wellington.ca
Next Steps
Make Your Way graduates in Guelph or Wellington County, the following programmes may be good next steps:
Ease Into Work (Hope House Guelph) |
Ease Into Work is a program for people who are interested in gaining work experience and developing skills in a supportive environment! We have monthly gatherings on the 2nd Thursday of each month, from 6:00pm to 7:30pm here at Hope House.
Skill Building:Healthy Routines Goal Achievement Communication Teamwork Problem Solving Resiliency Time Management Leadership On-The Job Training Opportunities to Gain Experience:Reception Admin Assistance Food and Clothing Markets Delivery Driving Facility Maintenance Harvest of Hope at the Farm Breakfast and Edu-Kitchen Special Projects and Events
Who Should Apply
For more information, contact Hope House Guelph: |
Stronger Together (formerly Circles) (The Wellington County Learning Centre) |
| The Wellington County Stronger Together program is innovative. It creates a framework for people to build intentional relationships across the community with the goal of ending poverty, a program of social inclusion and social capital building.
Stronger Together is a peer-to-peer supportive environment, with facilitators with lived experience. The group empowers each other to reach their own desired goals, with the ultimate goal of being financially self-sufficient over time. With the help of The Wellington County Learning Centre, Stronger Together can provide people with the resources, tools, skills, connections and learning opportunities to help individuals and families tackle a problem or make progress towards their goals.
For more information, please contact Jessica |
