Insight Support Services and Education Program
Insight Support Services and Education Program
SUMMER “WORKABILITY’ PROGRAM 2023
The “WORKABILITY” Program provides youth with opportunities to learn job readiness, social and life skills in a safe setting. The youth must be between the ages of 13 and 19.
The skills that the successful applicants will be exposed to will include:
Organizing a schedule to complete designated tasks
Identifying skills needed to complete certain tasks
Problem solving
Team work
Filling in time sheets
Adhering to Work Safe B.C. standards e.g. having to wear safety goggles and close-toed shoes
Identifying tools appropriate for the job and learning to use them safely
The program runs for 6 weeks, one day a week for 4 hours each day beginning the week of: Tuesday, July 11, 2023 and ending the week of Tuesday Aug. 15, 2023.
Typically, the program starts at 9:00 a.m. and finished at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
*CONFORMATION OF DATES, START TIMES AND ACTUAL LOCATIONS WILL BE MADE AT A LATER DATE.
The projects that we have been involved with in the past include:
Weeding, Painting, Brushing horses/dogs, Watering animals, Feeding the animals, Raking the stalls, Playground maintenance, Raking up droppings in the yard
· Brushing and walking donkeys – new this year
To register, please call: Deb Hubic at 250-319-2859 or email:deb@insightsupport.ca
Or: Leave a message with the front - line staff at the INSIGHT office: 250-554-0085
*The program will adhere to all COVID protocols recommended by the various authorities during the participation in the WORKABILITY Program.
Insight Education Program acknowledges that we are situated on the traditional and unceded lands of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc within Secwépemc’ulucw, the traditional territory of the Secwépemc people. We recognize that this territory has always been a place of teaching, learning and research, and we continue these traditions. We acknowledge the Secwepemc people who have been here for thousands of years. We acknowledge the many Indigenous Peoples from across this land.