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BOB’s Employment News – July 2010

BOB would like to congratulate Liz Charyna, Manager, Partnerships & Supported Employment at Building Opportunities with Business on the 3^rd anniversary of her joining the team. Liz is also a Member of the BC Career Development Association (formerly ENET & CMA) and a Facilitator and Community Connector with PLAN Institute for Caring Citizenship. If she wasn’t busy enough with BOB and these organizations she’s also an accomplished dragon boat racer and a dancing machine (Just ask anyone who was at Toby Barazzuol’s recent disco-themed birthday bash!). Liz joined BOB 3 years ago as the Partnerships Development Coordinator, whose role was to enhance access to job opportunities for multi-barriered residents of the DTES.  According to Shirley Chan, CEO of BOB:

“Liz brought with her a positive attitude and quickly established herself as a valuable employee.  She stepped naturally into the leadership role of Manager of Partnerships and Supported Employment and with her team has achieved tremendous results supporting both employers and employees to attain an unprecedented 90% employee retention rate.  Go Liz, go!”

Liz’s incredible supply of positive energy, her leadership qualities and her dedication to her community and city definitely don’t go unnoticed. The entire team at BOB would like to congratulate Liz on all she has accomplished over the past 3 years and looks forward to being a part of her future success.

Peter Rezansoff CEO of ITC Construction Group was interviewed today by Malcolm Perry of the Vancouver Sun.  The article touches on a number of issues from the DTES, affordable housing, to high speed construction methods.  Building Opportunities with Business worked closely with Peter’s team at ITC as part of the Olympic Athlete’s Village construction efforts and the Community Benefits Agreement.

Throughout the course of constructing the athlete’s village 102 inner-city residents were trained in construction and 39 of them were directly employed by ITC Construction Group.

Olympic Athlete's Village

Social housing and how best to provide it and where is an ongoing debate in Vancouver, which was recently featured on CTV.