Kerri Navigates Employ-Ability with JAWS
Kerri lost her vision when she was ten months old due to a bone disease. The disease damaged her optic nerve which permanently affected her vision.
Guy Embarks on his Second Career
“My first career, of over twenty years, was as a sales representative in the field of communications,” says Guy. “I am now embarking on a second career having obtained a Bachelor of Social Science degree from the University of Ottawa.”
John Lands Three New Positions
John entered the Neil Squire Society’s Employ-Ability Program (now known as the Working Together Program) without a clear idea of what type of career he should pursue.
Tracy Lands Two Jobs
Tracy, a mother of two, lives in the northern community of Pinehouse Lake, Saskatchewan. She heard about the Neil Squire Society’s Employ-Ability Program (now the Working Together Program) through a friend who was a past participant. “Now I am proud to say I am a graduate of the Employ-Ability Program,” she says.
How a dude holds down a 9-to-5 job despite his disability
My Time at Neil Squire “On a warm spring day I got an email. Chris Wright a wonderful (now blissfully retired) case manager from the Neil Squire Society had forwarded onto me a job posting. This job was a summer gig teaching people computer literacy in a program called Computer Comfort. I ignored this email […]