Academy of Learning

We offer over 40 diploma programs/certificates, and over 400 individual courses. Some examples of diplomas are Office Administration, Computerized Accounting, PC Support, Computer Service Technician, Home Inspection, Desktop Publishing, Web Designer, Medical Office Assistant - with specialties in Advanced Medical Transcription, Unit Clerk and Vet assistant

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Arrow & Slocan Lakes Community Services

Community Action Program for Children- individual support and group activities to benefit community members and families. Group support for parents and their children. All the services provided by CAP C are free to participants.

Parenting Programs: Success by 6, Nobody’s Perfect, Ready or Not, Mother Goose to provide support and information to parents and their children

Child and Youth Mental Health, Sexual Abuse Intervention Program, Children Who Witness Abuse: These programs together provide crisis intervention, assessment, counselling and referrals for children and youth.

The Home Support Program: Community Health Workers do personal care, medication check in visits, respite, meal prep for special diets and palliative care work.

Safe Home Program: Volunteers are trained to provide on-call services for crisis situations. Safe Home providers also receive support and skill development in Safe Home procedures and crisis management. Many of the referrals to the Safe Home Program come from three main sources, the Arrow Lakes Hospital, the local Police Station, and the Ministry for Human Resources.

Senior’s Community Activity Program “New Horizons” which has a Program Mandate to function as a Community Activation Day Program targeted mainly for seniors where social events are developed and advertised.

EAS (Employment Assistance Services) has had a program mandate to provide community based employment services to residents of Nakusp, New Denver, Silverton, Edgewood, Fauquier, Burton and Trout Lake in order for them to find and keep employment. These services include assistance with resume development and job search, skills development and training packages, access to computers with Internet, fax and telephone for employment purposes. Outreach continues to serve approximately 4000 clients in the Nakusp and New Denver areas through in person or telephone contacts per contract year.

Targeted Wage Subsidy has had a program mandate to assist unemployed, Employment Insurance eligible individuals experiencing difficulty in finding work to benefit from on-the-job work experience.

Training for Jobs assists employable individuals referred by Ministry of Employment and Income Asssistance by providing assessment, training, career development and work placements towards an outcome of ongoing employment.

Women’s Counselling Programs: Stopping the Violence (STV), assists women who have experienced violence by providing counselling, group work and referrals.

Volunteer Drivers: Finds rides for people to go to medical appointments.

Meals on Wheels & Frozen Meals are volunteer led programs that assure that community members are getting a good nutritious meal.

Food Bank: The agency operates the food bank on donations.

Club House: Terra Pondera mental health consumers club house provides space for meetings, training, support, networking and generally as a resource for mental health service providers, consumers and their families.

Transit has a program mandate to operate regional bus service Nakusp to Nelson, Slocan to Nelson, Salmo to Nelson, Kaslo to Nelson and to operate HandiDart internal to Nakusp, Kaslo, and Nelson and area. Starting Feb 06 new runs provide service from Nelson to Castlegar with connections to the Trail Regional Hospital.

Youth Coordinator: To provide coordination for the Nakusp Youth Centre and to assess community needs for youth activities.

Skills Link: A Federally funded youth project to assist youth with employability skills and work experience.

AIM: Adults Instructing and Mentoring provides interaction between seniors and youth to foster intergenerational connections for skills acquisition and recreational activities.

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Beaver Valley Baptist Church

We are an independent fundamentalist baptist church, committed to Godly standards, music that is not worldly, but rather gives praise to God, bibical teaching and preaching, King James Version (not NKJV, NIV, ASV, RSV, etc...) of the Bible, and many outreach ministries.

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Canada World Youth / EcoAmericas program

The EcoAmericas is a unique youth exchange between Nelson and Tijuana (Mexico) that will take place in the area next fall. It is an experiencial, non-formal educational program that will be exploring various ways of building a sustainable North America together.

The group, composed of 5 Canadians and 5 Mexicans between ages 21 and 25, will be in Nelson and the area from the 18th of August to the 24th of November. After what they will all go to Tijuana for the last part of the exchange.

During their stay, they will share the everyday life of local host families and do volunteer work for different organization in the region.

Canada World Youth has been doing youth exchanges for more than 30 years, and living with host families is the best way we found to integrate the participants to a new culture and a new community.

As to the work placements, they also allow the participants to learn more about the local issues and to explore the different solutions people have found to deal with those issues, and to give a hand to local organizations. This year, the focus will be put mainly on environmental (food production, water and forrest preservation, etc) and social justice related issues.

Our aim is to form youth that will be aware of what sustainable development means in the North American context and that will play an active role in their own community when they go back home.

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Canadian Cancer Society (West Kootenay office)

Important information on local programs and services available including financial assistance (after assessment) and one to one emotional support by a screened and trained volunteer who has experienced the cancer journey. Also videos, print material and free internet access at our office.

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Chamber of Mines of Eastern British Columbia

The Chamber acts as a liason between its members, the mining industry, the government and the general public with emphasis on education about the mining sector in BC.
We have a full reference book and map library with some publications dating back to 1874. Our extensive mineral collection contains local and worldwide specimens.
A prospector course is usually held at least once a year. Call the Chamber for details.

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Columbia Basin Environmental Education Network

The Columbia Basin Environmental Education Network (CBEEN) is a non-profit society that fosters environmental education initiatives, environmental stewardship and sustainability throughout the Canadian Columbia River Basin.

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Community Action Program for Children (CAP-C)

Provides outreach parent education and support services throughout the West Kootenay. This program is now located in the "The Family Place."

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Community Futures Development Corp of Central Kootenay

Small business assistance through commercial loans, the Self-Employment Program, business management training workshops and other business related resources.

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Creston Community Literacy

We run a number of programs aimed at increasing the literacy of Creston and area residents, by offering basic and fundamental adult literacy programs, ESL groups, A Books for Babies program , and the Family Literacy program for children and their families who need help with literacy issues.

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