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SOAR to a richer life...
Our mission is to nurture interdependence and independence through meaningful learning. Our programs build upon learners’ unique personal strengths, confidence, awareness and skills.
Selkirk College has a diverse offerings of programs to meet the learning needs of adult students. There are many options available that lead to certification and develop transferable skills for adult living and employment.
Levels of Programming
Goals: Transitions in Adult Living
Ideal for students who are working on individualized skill-building in the areas of literacy, numeracy, computer technology or adaptive functioning skills. View the GOALS PDF.
Foundations: Skills for Adult Living
Ideal for students who are at a beginner level for basic literacy and numeracy skills and require a specific focus on transitional skills to adult-life and employment. View the FOUNDATIONS PDF.
Discovery: Skills for Employment
Ideal for students who are ready to engage in the world of employment and learn essential employability skills. The program will focus on developing and building upon skills to maintain successful employment or continue to build upon employment opportunities.
The program will focus on developing and building skills for finding or maintaining successful employment. View the DISCOVERY PDF.
Mastery: Skills for Specific Employment Sectors
Ideal for students who are keen to specialize their skills set for a specific sector of employment.
Students may be co-enrolled in Discovery Level courses as a full-time student. View the MASTERY PDF.
Mentorship: Skills for Transitions in Community
Mentorship is in development. Ideal for students who are natural leaders in the classroom and would benefit from an additional year to mentor new students, and transitioning successful beyond college.
Our Teaching and Learning Philosophy
SOAR (Steps to Opportunities, Academics & Readiness) programs include hands-on, experiential education designed to prepare students for success in a variety of workplace, volunteer, and community settings. Students are exposed to a blended learning platform which includes foundational academic and life skills that are essential for developing life-long learners.
Our learners will:
- Build on strengths and interests boosting self confidence
- Identify, create and achieve personal goals
- Build self-awareness and learn to work with others
- Develop and use effective strategies for handling conflict, change and stress, and problem solving
- Build self-awareness and learn to work with others
- Develop resource and support networks
- Enhance employment readiness and develop useful and transferable workplace skills
- Identify and practice appropriate safety procedures
- Increase numeracy, literacy and technology skills
How to enrol
We believe in giving learners the chance to flourish in a supportive college setting. It is important we take the time to get to know a prospective student so an individual plan is developed to foster success and appropriately meet the needs of the student and programming.
Find out more from the instructor in your community and set up an intake interview:
Nelson offers a full or part-time program. Contact Maria Van der Star at the Silver King Campus.
Castlegar offers a part-time program. Contact Lena Sherstobitoff at the Castlegar Campus
Grand Forks offers a part-time program. Contact Kim Vander Kooy at the Grand Forks Campus.
Trail offers a full or part-time program. Contact Tammy Profilli at the Trail Campus.
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In the News
In the spirit of his latest single that pays homage to hometowns, Canadian recording artist Shawn Hook virtually visited the place where he grew up and spent time with Steps to Opportunities, Academics & Readiness Program students who share his passion for performance.
Weekly popcorn sales at the Silver King Campus in Nelson have been turned into holiday hampers by students in the Transitional Training Program who are helping make sure their fellow learners have enough to eat over the coming weeks.
Bringing contemporary songs to life through sign language is the focus of the Selkirk College Transitional Training Program's Signing Glee Club that has recently completed a second successful year at the Silver King Campus in Nelson.