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Service Providers: Education & Skills Training

Okanagan Regional Library

Established in 1936, the Okanagan Regional Library includes 29 branches serving an area of 23,000 square miles, from Golden to the U.S. border. We have over 222,000 cardholders who borrow more than 3.3 million items annually. In 2005:

Our staff answered over 470,000 reference questions.
Our story times and other programs were enjoyed by more than 68,000 children and adults.

The mission of the Okanagan Regional Library District is to provide equitable access to relevant educational, recreational, and cultural library resources in order to enhance and enrich the lives of community residents.

The John Howard Society of the North Okanagan/Kootenay Region of BC

Our Mission:

To promote and lead effective, just and humane responses to the causes and consequences of crime and poverty by working directly with individuals, service providers and the broader community.

Community Futures North Okanagan

Community Futures North Okanagan (CF) has been involved in community economic development activities since 1984 and was established to assist the community to find local solutions to complex economic issues.

North Okanagan Employment Enhancement Society

The North Okanagan Employment Enhancement Society (NOEES) is a non-profit, charitable organization formed in 1988 to provide employment-related services to people in the North Okanagan. Hundreds of unemployed adults have benefited from programming tailored to meet their needs. Program funding is provided the Province of BC.

Vernon & District Immigrant Services Society

Vernon & District Immigrant Services Society (VDISS) is a non-profit society, assisting Immigrants, Refugees, Visible Minorities and First Generation Canadians and their families with their settlement and integration into Canadian society.

We have been assisting our clients in the Vernon area since 1996, and in 2005 expanded to offer our existing Employment Services in Kelowna.

Okanagan College

Okanagan College is a public, comprehensive, post secondary educational institution that was established under the provisions of the College and Institute Act (2004). Okanagan College offers a wide variety of career, continuing education, degree, developmental, trades and technologies, university transfer, and vocational programs. The region served by Okanagan College covers 37,750 square kilometers, and extends from Osoyoos and Princeton in the south and west to Mica Creek and Revelstoke in the north and east.

THEO BC

THEO BC is a dynamic, non-profit organization accredited by PCTIA (the Private Career Training Institutions Agency of BC) and dedicated to offering a selection of exemplary employment-related programs, courses, continuing education, leisure activities, and supported education services.

Junction Literacy & Youth Centre

The Junction Literacy Centre was established in 2007 in response to community input regarding the literacy needs of people living in the North Okanagan region (Vernon, Coldstream, Lumby and Cherryville). A central literacy organization with paid coordinators became a primary goal. Based on the VCLC Literacy Plan.

At the Junction Literacy & Youth Centre we aim to provide youth aged 14 - 18 years with a safe, non-judgmental environment where they feel they can connect with friends, staff, and the community.