NEW English Summer Classes

Accelerate your learning and confidence in personal or business conversation and workplace communication today!
Click HERE to learn more about ICA’s fun and affordable summer series for English language learners.

New Reception Hours

Starting July 2nd, our Reception Hours will be from 10:30am to 2:30pm, office hours will remain the same from 8:30am – 4:30pm. Click here for more information.

Game Changer: Youth Employment Program

The Game Changer program is for newcomers between 17 and 29 years old looking for skills training and job search support. It is designed to:

  • Teach you how people work in Canada and what employers are looking for.
  • Improve your essential skills to get hired faster and do well at work.
  • Identify and deal with personal challenges that may stop you from getting a job and keeping it.
  • Understand what kind of jobs you would be good at and enjoy doing.
  • Create a supportive group where participants help and encourage each other.

What does the Game Changer program offer?

  • Job search and job maintenance skills: Resume, cover letter, interview +
  • Essential skills training
  • Networking & self-marketing skills
  • Volunteering experience
  • Direct connection with local employers
  • Paid training & living allowance of $21/hour
  • Other financial support

Eligibility

  • Immigrant Young Adult ages 17 – 29 living in British Columbia
    (Permanent Resident, Naturalized Citizen, or Protected Person legally entitled to work in Canada)
  • Not full-time students
  • Currently unemployed or with unstable/unsuitable employment
  • English language CLB level 4 or equivalent
  • Priority to people who have recently arrived to Canada

After three years of working tirelessly on my own, taking additional courses, building connections and trying to get interviews with firms willing to value my professional experience as an architect in Egypt; I enrolled in the Game Changer program. The staff at ICA have given me such dedicated support and guidance, it made an enormous difference. I am so grateful to have the funding and support to continue working towards my career in Canada. 

In the two weeks since graduating from the program I have had nine interviews and today I was offered a job as an intern architect. Thank you, ICA.

Yasmin Hassan,
Game Changer Graduate

Contact Us:

Rachel Jang       (250-388-4728)

or Mia Lauzon   (250-882-5147)

Email: gamechanger@icavictoria.org

 

Now Accepting Applications for Game Changer Summer/ Fall 2025
Dates: July 7 to August 29 / October 6 to November 28

Now Accepting Applications for 2025

Email Game Changer 


Youth & Family Services

ICA provides immigrant programs for youth between the ages of 7-28. In addition, during the year, we host many different types of youth events, social gatherings and summer camps in and around the community to help build cultural connections.

Learn English (LINC)

Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) provides English language training from beginner to advanced levels for adult newcomers to Canada. LINC is funded by the Government of Canada and is FREE for eligible students.

Settlement Workers in Schools (SWIS)

A school-based outreach program aimed at helping eligible newcomer students (immigrants and refugees) and their families settle and integrate into their school and community.