The Gateway into the Workforce
Harvinder has Multiple Sclerosis which affects her balance. However, she wants to work and share her abilities in the workplace. To enter the job market, she felt that she needed to develop her computer skills.
Footprints to Employment
Sometimes the best way to learn is to teach — that’s the lesson Keisha learned as a Neil Squire Society youth intern at the Penticton Indian Band’s Footprints to Technology Centre.
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 […]
A Thorough Learning Experience with the Neil Squire Society’s Team
Kaven was a youth intern at the Neil Squire Society’s Computer Comfort Program from November 2014 to April 2015.
“I’m lucky to be alive”
In 2007, Bhajan, who worked as a construction worker his whole life, was doing a routine roofing job when the ladder he climbed up slipped from the aluminum gutter it was resting upon, plunging him 20 feet to the ground.