Care aid gives loving care
Georgina Proulx is starting up a business called Loving Care on Wheels. Loving Care on Wheels has a mission to help people live their lives with more confidence and independence. Care aide and accompaniment services are offered for people who require assistance. Loving Care on Wheels will accompany clients to medical appointments, shopping, social functions, surgeries, and holidays. If the client is housebound, Loving Care on Wheels can run everyday errands, relieve a care provider, and offer medication reminders.
Proulx is a certified and registered care aide with a class 4 unrestricted driver’s license and a clean driver’s abstract. Proulx has worked as a dispensing optician in the health care aide field as well. She has 40 years of driving experience with her regular vehicle, vans, and taxis. References from co-workers, past clients, and employers are available. For more information call 250-838-7874 or email gmproulx@telus.net.
Program fills skills gap
It’s estimated that by 2019, over three-quarters of all jobs will require some post-secondary education. To give low-skilled employees a chance to move up and fill these jobs, B.C.’s new $3-million Targeted Skills Shortage Pilot Program will help local businesses and non-profit organizations train current staff to better meet the demands of a changing labour market.
The pilot program is designed to help low-skilled employees who lack post-secondary training work towards a degree or other credentials, gain new skills to improve productivity, take on new responsibilities and advance their careers. The program targets four high-growth sectors where the demand for skilled workers over the next decade will be strong: transportation and warehousing, manufacturing, health care and social assistance, and professional, scientific and technical services.
This program focuses on businesses or non-profit organizations with less than 100 employees. Through the pilot, up to $1,500 per employee or $7,500 per employer is available to pay for tuition fees and purchase training services, books, manuals and other study materials. The program is expected to serve at least 1,200 employees around the province. This program is one of many funded through the Canada-B.C. Labour Market Agreement, designed to help meet the current and future labour demands of our economy.
Learn more by visiting the Targeted Skills Shortage Pilot Program website.
Province encourages hiring youth
Youth Skills B.C. is offering a new program which provides B.C. employers with a $2,000 hiring incentive to hire eligible youth. An employer may hire up to three employees under this program. The program, funded by the Ministry of Regional Economic and Skills Development, has been designed to be easy-to-use for employers and employees.
To qualify, the potential employee must be between the ages of 15 and 29, must not be currently receiving EI and must not have received EI within the past 36 months or 60 months for a parental claim, must not be a full-time student or returning to school, must be a resident of B.C. and legally entitled to work in Canada, and must not be participating in any other government funded program. Potential employers must have been in business for a minimum of one year and must be in good standing with WCB.
To learn more about the program, which is available until March 2012, visit http://www.bowmanemployment.com/ysbc/.
