If you’ve considered upgrading your education or other skills but feel you’ve left it too late or it costs too much, Steps to Success at the YWCA Thompson can help.

Program Coordinator, Cat Cogle, says there is no cost to classes at Steps to Success, as they are sponsored by Manitoba Adult Learning and Literacy and Manitoba Economic Development and Investments and Trade.

Here, Cogle explains how their programming is available to students outside of Thompson and how that came about.

“Because of COVID, we had to expand how we delivered our programming. Our students, because they could not come to the classroom, we had to find ways to reach them so we now have a lot of programming that’s also available online. Because that programming is available online, if you are not right in Thompson, it’s okay because you can still attend some of our classes.”

Some classes remain the same monthly, but others change out so it’s always good to check their schedule of classes.

Anyone age 18 and older is eligible to sign up for classes.  To do so, email essentialskillywca@mts.net.

You can also catch the full interview with Cogle at 12:40 and 5:10 this afternoon.