Bamboo Network Expands Service to Skilled Immigrants:
Job Search Sessions and Job/Apprenticeship Placements, in Addition to Mentors,
Now Offered by Multicultural Helping House

Vancouver – Skilled immigrants who are unemployed or underemployed can now avail of new services at the Multicultural Helping House to help them get work in their field.

“If a skilled immigrant is not working, or working under 20 hours a week, we will provide him or her a continuum of services including one-on-one employment counseling, job search sessions, mentoring, networking, and assistance with job and apprenticeship placement in his/her field,” explained Eleanor Guerrero-Campbell, Executive Director of Multicultural Helping House Society. “This is what skilled immigrants have been asking for, and we are pleased to now provide them this help,” she added.

This is a free service, made possible through funding by Service Canada (formerly Human Resources and Social Development Canada). A new 4-person team has been created to deliver the new services at Helping House.

“We are grateful to staff of Service Canada for their confidence in us, and our riding Member of Parliament Minister Dave Emerson and his staff, who helped us secure support for this project,” said Tom Avendano, President of Multicultural Helping House Society.

Since 2001, Bamboo Network has been providing mentors to skilled immigrants to help them get work in their field. The program, which has been demonstrating successful results, will now be able to help even more skilled immigrants through a broader range of services. The target is to help 100 skilled immigrants in 2006.

To avail of the service, contact:
604-879-3277 or email info@helpinghouse.org

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