Momentum Now!

Introduction

Our Momentum Now! program is holding strong and maintaining momentum! Graduates are being hired early and promoted while still in the work experience portion of the program and earning competitively higher wages!

We are sustaining an employement rate of

77%

Program overview

Begins with an 8-week of pre-employment seminar where participants remain on EIA/EI and prepare to enter the workplace. The pre-employment seminar actively introduces participant to all 5 key skill-building areas of the professional development curriculum through group-based employability skills training.

24 weeks of paid meaningful work experience (earning minimum wage at 37.5 hours a week) in a cooperating workplace, in their field of interest that participants help choose - all with the goal of transitioning successfully into ongoing employment.

Our successful mixed model of leading-edge professional development combined with paid work experience means that participants are learning hands-on and gaining weekly training, mentoring, and coaching they can immediately apply in the workplace.

Graduates move into the world of meaningful work having built a foundation of resiliency, self-governance, and self-management to sustain them in employment long-term.

The curriculum

Power Sharing Practice

Begins with the assumption that participants are competent and have valuable expertise to share.

Activate! Acquire! Apply!

Our Learning Activities tap into adult learners’ internal motivations and prior knowledge, accessing life experiences as an important resource for learning. Participants learn experientially, applying their enhanced understanding in the practice of useful behaviours.

Tools and Processes

The Momentum Centre, Inc. employs a comprehensive set of group facilitation tools and processes in advancing participants’ empowerment and effectively delivering the curriculum.

Evaluation and Assessment

Evaluation and assessment play a pivotal role in every aspect of the work we do, an integral part of every learning activity in all five (5) key skill-building areas of the curriculum.

Constructing assessment components throughout the stages of programming allows us to stay on top of and address emerging issues and trends as they arise, adapting and adjusting in the moment.

Participants

Supporting youth in developing and enhancing their long-term employability skills, occupational functioning and emotional resilience through comprehensive professional development and wrap-around supports, resiliency coaching, and quality paid work experience that leads to meaningful, ongoing employment.

Participant information

How to participate?

Founded by two staff and a core group of our original program, the Youth Work Experience Initiative graduates in 2010, The Momentum Centre, Inc. is recognized provincially and nationally as an innovator in providing life stabilization, meaningful employment, cutting edge professional development, trauma recovery, successful labour force attachment and community reintegration.

The training

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