Searching for Adult Literacy

Provides employment consultants that provide personalized employment counselling and can assist with:

• Job search challenges related to hearing loss
• Career planning
• Resume and cover letter services
• Leads and referrals to potential job opportunities
• Preparing for interviews
• Arranging an interpreter or live translation of speech to text (CART) for interviews

Offers additional on the job support by working with the individual and the employer to:

• Find assistive technology and communication devices
• Identify and implement appropriate workplace accommodations for a barrier-free work environment
• Provide communication workshops for co-workers

Also provides employment services for employers and students

Provides an adult education learning centre

• Facilitates upgrading courses designed for adults who have not completed their high school education
• Participates in Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR), a systematic process to identify, self-assess, organize, describe and document one's knowledge, skills and attitudes that have been acquired over one's lifetime through formal education, workplace training and other life experiences such as volunteer and military work

Services include but are not limited to:

• Literacy skills
• Basic office program learning
• Communication skills
• Computer skills
• Numeracy
• Reading
• Typing skills
• Writing

• Provides literacy and basic skills training, including numeracy, digital, communication and interpersonal skills
• Helps learners prepare for employment, apprenticeship, secondary-school credit, post-secondary education and greater independence

Supports High School Equivalency or OSSD

Assists Ontario Works participants by providing education and training services to enhance employment opportunities

Offers the following support services and programs:

• Access to telephone, fax, computers, photocopier and printing and Job Board
• Basic education
• Child care expenses
• Community placements
• Employment related expenses
• Employment/training start-up benefit
• Full-time employment benefit
• Life skills training
• Literacy and numeracy programs
• Resume and cover letter preparation
• Self-employment assistance
• Transportation expenses

Starting July 6, 2020 there will be a limit of 10 people in the office at one time. Services are by appointment only. No walk-ins are allowed at this time. Staff will screen for COVID-19 symptoms and masks must be worn at all times in the building. Physical distancing rules will apply.

• Provides literacy and basic skills training, including numeracy, digital, communication and interpersonal skills
• Helps learners prepare for employment, apprenticeship, secondary-school credit, post-secondary education and greater independence

Temporarily closed due to COVID - call Toll Free 1-800-518-0000 or email info@chs.ca for more information on virtual services

Provides employment consultants that provide personalized employment counselling and can assist with:

• Job search challenges related to hearing loss
• Career planning
• Resume and cover letter services
• Leads and referrals to potential job opportunities
• Preparing for interviews
• Arranging an interpreter or live translation of speech to text (CART) for interviews

Offers additional on the job support by working with the individual and the employer to:

• Find assistive technology and communication devices
• Identify and implement appropriate workplace accommodations for a barrier-free work environment
• Provide communication workshops for co-workers

Also provides employment services for employers and students