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Success Stories
The lives of Canadians are touched on a daily basis by HRSDC and its portfolio partners. In every part of the country there is a story waiting to be told about how Canadians can benefit from our programs and initiatives. The following Success Stories are about Canadians who are making better choices to lead productive and rewarding lives in their family life, at work and in their communities.
Aboriginal Canadians
- Life-changing experience
- From Entrepreneur to Environmental Steward
- Building a New Career
- Confidence is everything
- Dreaming of that scarlet tunic…
- Positive Thinking Yields Positive Results
- Powering up her career: program supports education and employment
- Welding student sparks a new career
Disability Issues
Homelessness
- RONA Vancouver 2010 Fabrication Shop: Olympic partners take social responsibility to new levels
- Salvation Army Belkin House: From homelessness to community
- When a house becomes a home: Covenant House Vancouver
- A home for every person: Fraser Street supportive housing
- The Homelessness Partnering Strategy: Partnerships that Work (Booklet)
- Second Chance
Literacy
- Making a Life-Changing Decision
- A Whole New World
- Literacy Saved My Life
- Ellen's Story
- An Entrepreneur's Success Story
Old Age Security (OAS) and Canada Pension Plan (CPP)
- Helping Workers Adjust to Mine Closure
- Giving Seniors a Voice in Newfoundland and Labrador
- Disability Conference Forges New Ideas and Partnerships
- Personalized Service for Abused Women
- Pre-Retirement Seminars Increase Awareness of Benefits
- Removing the Fear Factor
- Reaching Out to Remote First Nations Communities
- Building Partnerships in Northern Alberta
- Connecting with the Elders of St. Mary’s First Nation
- Reaching Out to Northern Aboriginal Communities
- Helping People with Disabilities Stay Active
Older Workers
- Success for Older Workers in Cape Breton
- It's Never Too Late
- Targeted Initiative for Older Workers at Yukon College
Protecting Jobs
- Work-Sharing: Keeping the Wheels of Industry Turning
- Optimistic About the Road Ahead through Work-Sharing
- Work-Sharing Strengthens Ties for Team Success
- Work-Sharing Plants the Seeds for a More Fruitful Future
- Work-Sharing for a New Beginning
- Protecting Manufacturing Jobs with the Help of Work-Sharing
- Keeping Skilled Employees through Work-Sharing
- Work-Sharing: Paving the Way to a Brighter Future
- Adapting to Changing Times: A Company Looks to Work-Sharing to Make It through the Recession
- Keeping a community strong
- Helping a Canadian business weather the economic storm
Workplace Skills
- Realizing Her Dream through Self-Employment
- Helping Newcomers Maintain their Careers in Spite of Barriers
- Encouraging Skilled Trades and Apprenticeships
- Renovating his Career through an Apprenticeship
- Speeding to a New Career in Canada
- Striving for More Through Self-Employment
- Sailing to Success with a Summer Job
- Preparing Newcomers for a Career in Canada
- Living the Canadian Dream
- Let's Get Cooking!
- Trade Winds to Success
Seniors
- Generations United: An Eye Opening Experience
- Bridging the Generations: An Award Winning Project
- The Rural Seniors Planning Committee
- The Tonari Gumi Cookbook: Preserving Japanese Tradition in the Kitchen
- Elgin Seniors’ Stories: Heritage, Hardship and Honour
- The Seniors’ Sampler: Helping Seniors Stay Active
- Sharing the Gift of Music
- The Tuktoyaktuk Elders Committee: Engaging the Whole Community
- Planting Seeds for the Future
- Mi’kmaq Elders: The Voice of Culture and Family
- Acting Against Elder Abuse in Quebec
Universal Child Care Plan
- Universal Child Care Benefit—more than just child care
- Raising three boys – a busy enterprise!
- A busy life
- A life-enhancing benefit
- Financial assistance in motion
- Universal Child Care Benefit is a windfall for a Monkland, Ontario family
- Celebrating two years of choice in child care
- Banking the Universal Child Care Benefit
- Today’s parents are raising tomorrow’s citizens with the government’s help
- Universal Child Care Benefit helps family connect over favourite Canadian pastime
- Past recipients applaud the Universal Child Care Benefit
- Benefit really helps
- Universal Child Care Benefit eases financial pressure
- Benefit useful for busy working parents
- Placing Choice in the Hands of Parents
- Benefit broadens range of activities
- Child Care benefit helps busy family of five
- A choice in child care
- Manitoba families grateful for the Universal Child Care Benefit
- Busy toddler gains from Benefit
- Double the Benefit
