Recent Projects

Beautiful Beginnings

(September 2002 - August 2003)

More than 20,000 women complete job-training and employment programs at community-based agencies each year. Many of these women are moving into the Canadian workforce from social assistance, long periods of unemployment, or as newcomers to Canada. Career counsellors have identified a number of barriers to securing meanful employment, including a woman's lack of self-confidence. The Beautiful Beginnings program provided a series of information sessions, hands-on workshops, and resource sheets to help women create and maintain a professional look for the Canadian workplace. Overall, Beautiful Beginnings helped nearly 250 women.

Funding for this program was provided by the Ontario Trillium Foundation.