Essential Skills for Employment at YWCA Toronto

Employment & Training Programs will tentatively reopen offices beginning as of March 1, 2022

Our employment, settlement, language and skills training services for job seekers, newcomer women, employers and community partners will gradually reopen offices for pre-booked, in-person services tentatively beginning March 1, 2022. We continue to offer online services by connecting with clients over the phone, via email or on Zoom. Please check the Employment and Training page for more information.

Please take care of yourselves and each other. Thank you.

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YWCA – Building Sustainable Futures (BSF)

YWCA Toronto’s Building Sustainable Futures (BSF) initiative is a national learning collaborative that spans across YWCA’s in ten provinces and three territories, and a host of national employers and community partners. We work together to develop the capacity of literacy and essential skills (LES) organizations to assist women to seize employment opportunities, create sustainable livelihoods and increase their assets.

Currently in Phase Three of the four-year national participatory research project, we are refining our essential skills training model to better serve diverse communities with a focus on newcomers, Indigenous, mature and youth workers.

This project is funded by the Adult Learning, Literacy and Essential Skills Program, Government of Canada.

What is new with the BSF Project?

2020 in Review
Training Future Life Skills Coaches
Meet Our Collaborators
Launching Phase Three of ESE

Upcoming Events

The Power of Collaboration (with YWCA Halifax, YWCA Moncton and YWCA St. John’s)
Thursday, January 20th, 2022 | 1–3p.m. EST via Zoom (details will shared after RSVP is received)

Launch Atlantic is a partnership between YWCA Halifax, YWCA Moncton, and YWCA St. John's that highlights the power of regional collaboration in supporting young women and gender diverse youth across the Atlantic. This session will highlight the basis of the program, learnings from a regional partnership, and the power of trauma informed and strengths focused programming.

For more information and to register for this event, please email us at BuildingFutures@ywcatoronto.org.