Twenty-one members of Gingolx Village’s population will gain work experience and help support new tourism industry opportunities by way of improved campsites, trails, marine development, community beautification and a new performance stage.

A new focus on social innovation in the Community and Employer Partnerships program will support B.C.’s growing social-enterprise sector and increase the potential for social innovation in B.C.

Five people in the Cariboo region will gain new job skills as they upgrade the Gold Rush Snowmobile Trail and other local recreation sites through a Job Creation Partnership with the British Columbia government.

The Province has proclaimed May 20, 2016, as B.C.’s third Aboriginal Social Enterprise Day to celebrate the accomplishments of Aboriginal social enterprises and their contributions to the vitality of British Columbia and the strength and resilience of Aboriginal communities.

Up to 16 job seekers will gain valuable work experience and contribute to the ongoing restoration of the North Pacific Cannery National Historic Site in the Port Edward/Prince Rupert area, through a Job Creation Partnership with the Province of British Columbia.

Leanne Dospital has been appointed as the new Advocate for Service Quality by Minister of Social Development and Social Innovation Michelle Stilwell.

A program that helps youth with developmental disabilities and their families navigate the services and supports they need as they transition to adulthood will soon have a much wider reach in British Columbia.

To create equity in the system the Province is investing $170 million over the next three years to ensure about 100,000 people on disability assistance in B.C. will receive a rate increase of up to $77 a month as of Sept. 1, 2016.

Louis Thomas remembers his mother as a tireless advocate of First Nations culture, language and history. That’s why he’s thrilled that Mary Thomas’s lectures have been preserved for posterity at Voice of the Shuswap community radio, CKVS-FM 93.7.

Government is investing more than $3 million in five research projects to find new and innovative ways to help unemployed British Columbians find a meaningful job.