Student Summer Works participants and program administrators stand outside
the Ferry Building in West Vancouver.

Student Summer Works ’98 wraps up

tudent Summer Works ’98 recently
wrapped up a highly successful

summer venture. Employers spanning
North and West Vancouver, Squamish,
Whistler, Pemberton and the Sunshine
Coast created 183 positions with the
assistance of government wage subsidies.
Capilano College students filled
approximately 20% of the jobs funded.

The goal of the Student Summer
Works ’98 program was to support
quality employment and training
opportunities for high school and post-
secondary students. As a result of this
special program, many students have
increased and/or created new
employability skills and were able to
make money to pay for their education.

Contract Services’ Nancy Nowlan and
Dave Sharrock and Lynne Somerville
in Student Services teamed up to
supervise the program run by program
administrators Brenda Ryujin and
Melissa Nichol, both Capilano College
students. Capilano College, in a unique
partnership with Simon Fraser
University, was one of 14 host agencies
throughout British Columbia
administering this provincial wage
subsidy program, a Youth Options BC
initiative.

Some of the jobs created gave

students great opportunities to advance
their education with experience. With
funding from Capilano College,
Catamaran Ferries International
employed four engineering students to
work on the development and building of
the new fast ferries. One of Capilano
College’s Business Administration Co-op
students was hired to do sales and
marketing for a wholesale distribution
company. As well, a Tourism Co-op
student from Capilano College became a
marketing assistant for a travel/tourism
marketing/public relations firm.

A wrap-up party, attended by
participating employers and students,
government representatives and Capilano
College staff and faculty, was profiled in
the Bright Lights section of the North
Shore News. As a result of the success of
the Student Summer Works ’98 program,
it is anticipated that Capilano College
will be chosen as a host agent again for
the summer of 1999.

Although Student Summer Works ’98
is wrapping up, there are many other
employment programs. For information
on other Youth Options BC employment
initiatives, visit the Web site at
www.youth.gov.be.ca or call
1-800-784-0055.

Submitted by Melissa Nichol

Education

partnership
agreement signed
in Sechelt —

tapilano Collese and the Sechele
Indian Band recently signed a

partnership agreement that will benefit

the College, Band members and all
Sunshine Coast residents.
_ The College and the Sechelt Band
have been working together since 1991
reducing barriers to post-secondary
education and providing training on the
Sunshine Coast. A Rural College
Transition Program initially offered
courses in ABE, College preparation,
careers and academics out of Sechelt’s
Capilano College and at the Sechelt
Band Educational facility. E
limited funding prevented the ‘delivery
of support s Tvices comparable to. ae
at the North Vancouver campus. -
In 1993, the Sechelt Band seed
funding from the Vancouver Sunshine
Coast Aboriginal. Management Society

(VSCAMS) to offer the first. year entry

level ABE program. The College
provided a contribution towards staffing,

program | development, nd other areas.
That same year, the College and the
Sechelt Band, along with a consortium
of J cal education agencies, joined
forces to establish the Sunshine Coast
Community Learning Centre. The
Centre was brought about through an
initiative to investigate lites tacy needs 1 in
the area. In 1994, funding was received

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Since 1994, the pcos has Fequested

Sechelt Band received ee
funding to continue its successful
fundamental le el ABE program and to

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