Serving the Eastern Townships English-speaking Community since 1979.
Want to Move to Sherbrooke? We can help you! Project now provides support for Sherbrooke-bound graduates
Sherbrooke January 8, 2010
Townshippers’ Association’s Make Way for YOUth Estrie project can now provide long-distance support for young graduates and professionals who want to settle in the City of Sherbrooke. Previously, the project was limited to rural MRCs in the Estrie region.
"This change will allow us to more fully address the needs of the English-speaking youth population in our own backyard,” said Association president Michael van Lierop, “and help attract newcomers to the region's Queen City, an increasingly vibrant and diverse place offering great career, cultural and business opportunities to both bilingual and English-speaking people.”
One of Townshippers’ Association’s current objectives, and one of the main goals of the Make Way for YOUth project, is to ensure that English-speaking youth in the Townships are more empowered, engaged and integrated into the community. To accomplish this goal, Townshippers’ Association has been offering support to post-secondary graduates wanting to settle in the Coaticook, des Sources, Granit, Haut-Saint-François, Memphrémagog and Val-Saint-François MRCs for the past three years. This is the first year that the Association will also be able to offer that support to youth who wish to settle in the Sherbrooke MRC.
The services offered by Make Way for YOUth include: free, long-distance individual support to help young, English-speaking professionals find a job and get settled in a new community, FREE exploratory activities that enable youth to visit and learn about a new community, and access to the weekly Accro des regions e-bulletin which lists jobs for which knowledge of English is either a requirement or an asset. Through these services, Make Way for YOUth provides a much needed helping hand for busy post-secondary graduates and/or families considering a move to the Townships.
In addition to this, Make Way for YOUth can also help local employers, by providing FREE job postings, excellent visibility and networking opportunities that can allow local businesses to find qualified employees, make new business contacts and increase their visibility in the English-speaking community. Both job seekers and employers can also use www.topportunity.ca, which offers postings of jobs requiring English for all parts of the Townships.
The Make Way for YOUth project is part of a province-wide organization, Place aux jeunes en région, which encourages the migration and settlement of youth in areas outside Québec’s large city centres. The activities of Place aux Jeunes en région are made possible thanks to the financial support of the Secrétariat à la jeunesse, the Mouvement Desjardins and partnering businesses and organizations throughout the Estrie region.
For more information about Make Way for YOUth and the services offered through this project, contact Michelle Lepitre, Make Way for YOUth/Desjardins Migration Agent, by phone at 819-566-5717 (toll-free: 1-866-566-5717) or by e-mail: mwfy@townshippers.qc.ca.