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Provides career support to Queen's students and new graduates

• career planning and job search skills
• work search and career counselling
• listings of part-time, summer and permanent jobs available in Kingston and across Canada
• provides recruitment support services to employers, helps promote their organizations and job opportunities

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

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

COVID-19 (21 Apr 2020): Staff is delivering services remotely. Métis who are in need of help accessing supports are urged to contact the MNO toll free at 1-800-263-4889 or email covidhelp@metisnation.org.

Employment and Training and Education Branch:

• career counselling
• employment readiness training
• wage subsidies
• apprenticeship support
• mobility assistance
• self-employment
• youth initiatives and services for clients with disabilities

Personal counselling services

• transition to college life
• anxiety or mood problems
• stress management
• conflict with family and friends
• sexuality
• substance use
• health related concerns
• referrals to other mental health programs

AccessAbility services include:

• personal counselling
• academic accommodations
• adaptive technologies
• learning strategies
• accessible testing services
• learning coach support

Literacy, numeracy and essential skills services

• assists in transitioning to post-secondary education, employment, apprenticeship or independence
• minimum in-person attendance requirement

Registered as a Career College with the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, offering postsecondary college diploma career programs which include programs such as:

• Office Administration
• Health Care
• Customer Service
• Accounting
• Business Administration
• Marketing
• Hospitality
• Home Inspection
• Conference and Event Planner
• Project Administration and Information Technology
• Payroll
• Web Design

Listed as a Private School with the Ontario Ministry of Education, offering

• grade functioning Skills Gap Analysis
• academic upgrading
• literacy and basic skills
• General Educational Development (GED) Preparation
• Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) Credit Acquisition Support
• career counselling
• employment preparation and assistance
• job search and self employment initiatives

Designated Learning Institute with Canada Immigration and Citizenship accepting International Students

COVID-19 (23 April 2020) Offices closed. Community Support Services and IL housing services continuing. Assistive Device applications are getting processed. Peer Groups available virtually.

Programs for physically and alternately disabled adults.

Programs include:
Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) Employment Supports program
Canadian Veterans Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Continuing Competence Program (CCP) Services
vocational and functional assessments
assistive devices assistance and other provincial programs such as home and vehicle modification assistance and conductive education

Indigenous employment program

• provides employment and training assistance to indigenous people

Literacy and basic skills training

• numeracy
• digital
• communication
• interpersonal skills
• prepare for employment
• apprenticeship
• secondary-school credit
• post-secondary education
• greater independence

Service coordination specialized outpatient psychiatric consultation and follow up

• individual therapy
• medication management
• concurrent counselling
• average duration: varies depending upon discipline and client need (1-2 years)

Literacy, numeracy and essential skills services to assist in transitioning to employment, apprenticeship, secondary-school credit, post-secondary education or independence

• support in clarifying upgrading goals and developing a training plan to achieve them

Head office of the Upper Canada District School Board

• administrative services

Employment services * assessment, training, resume preparation, employment preparation, job search, job placement options and job coaching, assistance to employers and more

Second location: 105 Strowger Blvd, Brockville, ON K6V 5K1, Phone: 613-498-2111

Service provider for the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) Employment Supports Program and third party training services for injured workers (WSIB).

• detailed needs assessment
• career planning and goal setting
• job search strategies
• occupational and educational information
• labour market research
• on-the-job accommodations
• referral to community resources
• work experience programs
• academic upgrading
• computer training

Comprehensive mental health and psychiatric services that focus on acute care, crisis response, short-term inpatient treatment (BGH) and outpatient treatment. (Front Ave Resource Centre, 25 Front Ave, Ste 5, Brockville, ON K6V 4J2). Satellite clinics located in Gananoque, Prescott, and Kemptville.


Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT): community based program that provides intensive treatment, support and rehabilitation services to improve the client's quality of life and reach their optimum level of functioning (Front Ave Site)

Career and College Prep (CCP)

• free program for adult learners that provides literacy, numeracy, and essential skills services to help learners achieve goals related to education and training, employment, apprenticeship, or independence
• in-class course modules to support studies in ​Mathematics, Communications, Computers, and Success Strategies at a College Entry Level (grades 9-12)

Adult learners can gain a high school equivalency certificate

• Academic and Career Entrance Certificate (ACE) or upgrade and/or refresh secondary school credits for career and college entrance

The timeline to finish the program is dependent on individual goals and needs.

Program intake is continuous.

Literacy and basic skills training, including numeracy, communication and interpersonal skills and computer and other digital skills

• helps learners prepare for employment, apprenticeship, secondary-school credit, post-secondary education and greater independence.

Literacy and Basic Skills: Literacy, numeracy and essential skills services to assist in transitioning to employment, apprenticeship, secondary-school credit, post-secondary education or independence * support in clarifying upgrading goals and developing a training plan to achieve them

ALTC specializes in literacy instruction base on Skills for Success and Better Jobs Ontario

• offers small group training and one-on-one mentoring for individualized learning plans based on your needs and goals

Offer learning plans to:

• improve your reading, writing, math, computer and communication skills
• prepare and go back to high school and gain your GED
• develop skills for better work opportunities, including apprenticeship
• develop skills to feel more confident in your everyday life

Investments in local sustainable economic development:

• business loans
• business counselling
• Rural Innovation Initiative Eastern Ontario Program
• information and referral

Literacy, numeracy and essential skills services to assist in transitioning to employment, apprenticeship, secondary-school credit, post-secondary education or independence

COVID19 (2 June 2020): Some services offered virtually during the pandemic. See Online Virtual Programs page on website for details.

Programs for persons with disabilities

• vocational rehabilitation
• supported employment
• job preparation
• job coaching
• community development
• public education
• awareness of needs of persons with disabilities
• sensitivity awareness
• sssistive devices program
• home and vehicle modification program
• independent living services
• outreach/attendant care

Ontario Employment Assistance Services -- Offers employment services which may include dissemination of labour market information, employment needs assessment, career planning, employment counselling, diagnostic services, job search skills, job finding clubs, job placement services, developing an employment action plan, referral to appropriate interventions, assessments for disability-related accommodations and participant case management and follow-up