Connect to Success
The Connect to Success Mentorship Program is for professional or skilled women who are unemployed or underemployed.
Move your career in the right direction with the help of a mentor. This free mentorship program is for women over 19 years of age who are entering or re-entering professional or skilled careers.
Connect to Success provides women with an opportunity to:
- Connect with a female mentor for 6 months and build a one-to-one career-based relationship.
- Participate in workshops focusing on personal and career development.
- Get information about networking and career resources.
Become a Mentor
Mentors are professional women who are successful in their careers and able to share their experience with a mentee. Mentors come from a wide range of careers including business, health care, science, arts, technology, and trades. Mentors are matched with mentees based on common career interest.
Become a Mentee
Mentees come from a variety of backgrounds. They are women with industry standard education who are starting their careers or returning to the workforce after parenting or entering the Canadian job market. Mentees are women who are:
- over the age of 19.
- job ready with industry standard education and training and seeking employment in professional or skilled careers.
- new to the local job market in their chosen career.
- legally entitled to work in Canada.
- residents of the Lower Mainland.
- in, or about to begin the job search process
- able to commit to a 6 month mentorship relationship.
You can start this program anytime. It's easy! Go to the Connect to Success Program page to download application forms.
For more information, contact:
Connect to Success Mentorship Program
535 Hornby Street
tel 604 895 5858
connect@ywcavan.org
Funding for this program is generously provided by the Ministry of Community Services.
