Community Outreach provides support to female learners and students, to assist with the development of their academic and career goals, to build the capacity and readiness required to overcome social and economic barriers through motivation, advocacy, guidance and navigation. The Community Outreach team offers experiential opportunities and information about educational and career pathways, which are currently non-traditional to women, such as providing information and pathways to access education and careers within skilled trades (service and maintenance technicians from the transportation sector, culinary, science and technology), as well as through apprenticeships for female learners and students. Through collaboration and partnerships with community organizations serving women, and College services, we journey with women who are taking non-traditional pathways to access and persist with post-secondary education, employment, and career goals.
Our Services
- Application Assistance
- Connections to:
- Navigation of college policies and procedures with current students
- Education planning that is responsive to student identities and experiences
- Facilitating effective withdrawals, stop outs and returns
- On-going relationships with individuals as they transition into careers
- Connection to Employment & Career Service
- Coordinating services for learners with community organizations that encourage women’s growth, goals and success
- Partnerships with individual community organizations and services to promote educational attainment and employment, in pursuit of meaningful careers and meaningful lives
- Engagement with organizations that offer skilled trades events, learning programs and pathway options
- you are an organization serving women
- a woman
- looking to discover new opportunities non-traditional careers
- exploring possibilities in accessing PSE
- taking a non-traditional path to education and career success
For more information, connect with:
Michelle Solomon
Outreach Coordinator, Women in Non-Traditional Careers (WINTC)
msolomon@centennialcollege.ca
(437) 980- 5261
Definitions
Learner: Anyone outside a post-secondary institution considering, aspiring to, dreaming about post-secondary education.
Student: Anyone registered in a post-secondary program, whether fee paying or tuition free, seeking to complete a program and attain a career.