Programs

Assists unemployed newcomers (with CLB 4-5) gain the skills needed to secure employment in Canada, including computer training, business communication, and job search techniques. Includes optional 1-month volunteer job practicum.

CWT is a job-specific English language training program that helps students find entry level jobs in one of three industries: Childcare Level 1 Certificate Training, Hotel Housekeeping, or Warehouse / Logistics. Choose the one that’s best for you.

Introduces students to the Sage 50 software application where they will learn inventory functions, accounts receivable, and more! Basic and Advanced levels of enrolment.

Further refine your accounting skills through learning the advanced features of taxes, financial instruments, benefits, and more.

Introduces students to the basics of manual accounting, journalizing, posting to ledgers, completing trial balances and preparing financial statements.

Develop advanced computing skills with features of Microsoft Office that are not commonly known in order to increase productivity with the software.

Suitable for those who want to enhance their Microsoft Office knowledge, which consists of more advanced functions of these applications, and allows participants to further improve their computer skills.

Provides comprehensive and personalized services to clients currently receiving Employment Insurance benefits or for those who have received regular EI in the past 5 years.

Offers free of charge 8-week in-class linguistic and professional foundations in agricultural industry and 2-week financially awarded on-site practicum with host companies. Work on a successful career in the exciting field of agriculture.

Provides orientation and training on how to turn your own initiative into a successful business. Modules include management, legal and risk assessments, customer service, entrepreneurship, and more!

Offers group-based employability skills training and job placement at a local non-profits, ethno-cultural organizations, private businesses, and educational institutes where students work and gain valuable Canadian experience while receiving a minimum wage benefit support.

Prepares clients for careers in the modern office and assists those who want to pursue careers as administrators while also providing quality computer training.

Provides an introduction to QuickBooks and the accounting industry, along with training students to complete general ledgers, accounts payable, payroll, and more!

Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) offers free English classes for CLB1-CLB4 and provides a practical training to improve skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

This program is a free open educational resources for students and teachers looking to help improve English skills for employment searches.

CIES’ Reading Room provides a quality instructional program to reinforce literacy-level learning amongst CIES clients through a one-on-one tutorial context.

Specifically designed to help adult immigrants who have low to non-literate language skills acquire the basic essentials required for learning English. Available to permanent residents, refugees, and Canadian Citizens.

Provides essential computer skills to literacy-level newcomer and Canadian adults over 30 hours of training. Students learn basic computer operation, use of email and basic social media, internet search, and more during 2 hour-and-a-half sessions each week.

Three different levels of classes (pre-basic, basic, and intermediate/advanced) designed for those who have to fit classes around family needs or work schedules and for those who are not eligible for LINC because of their immigration status.

Four levels of language literacy training (Foundation L, CLB 1L, CLB2L, CLB3L, CLB4L) for immigrants with limited, interrupted or no formal education and who are non-literate or semi-literate in their native tongue. For permanent residents and refugees.

This free English program is open to people who can’t attend regular LINC classes due to illness, disability, caretaking family members, or conflicting work schedule. Classes are offered online with weekly exercises and sessions over the phone and computer for CLB3-CLB8.

For students who are unable to attend daily in-class instruction, but can still commit to 1 in-class instruction per week, we offer this free English program to “blend” the benefits of in-class and online instruction.

This course helps clients improve their workplace communication skills, career advancement opportunities, and digital literacy while studying from home.

Provides access to emotional support and professional counselling for recently arrived refugees and newcomers. Clients and walk-in participants will be assisted with either a one-on-one consultation or arrangements to see a professional counsellor.

Informs low-income newcomers and financially challenged individuals about the financial services, systems, and issues in Canada.

Provides fast-track assistance by University of Calgary student volunteers and contact-building through one-on-one mentor-guides who help find affordable options to transportation, banking, groceries, and more!

Offered to CIES students exclusively, this certified program provides free daycare services to the children of parents who are attending IRCC-funded programs. Childminding is free of charge and facilitates the settlement of children who are new to Canada.

Information service dedicated to helping newcomers navigate the services they need. Provides guidance to other service agencies, places of worship, health and housing organizations, and more.

Run by a committee of 19 green-thumbed, garden-loving refugees and newcomers, this project will establish a mini-garden to benefit Calgary communities.