As many as 30 eligible British Columbians living with disabilities will receive skills training to prepare them for jobs as food-service assistants on the Lower Mainland.

As many as 24 eligible people will receive the skills and training required to prepare to be disability employment specialists.

As many as 16 eligible British Columbians will receive skills training to prepare for employment as professional truck drivers.

As many as 120 eligible people will receive training to prepare them for employment in wildfire and integrated natural resources fields in five regions around the province.

To further reduce period poverty and increase access to free menstrual products, applications for funding are open.

Nicholas Simons, Minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction, and Dan Coulter, Parliamentary Secretary for Accessibility, have released the following statement in recognition of Disability Employment Month:

Applications are open for people who want to help develop the Province’s first two standards for accessibility in order to remove barriers that can restrict people living with disabilities from pursuing the same opportunities as those without disabilities.