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Previous Practicum Employers/Hosts
- Atira Women's Society
- BackCheck Inc
- BC Housing
- BuildMapper
- Burnaby Alternative School
- Calvary Worship Centre
- Canadian Cancer Society
- Chimo Community Services
- City of Richmond Policy Planning Dept
- City of Surrey, Healthy Communities
- Coast Capital Savings
- Columbia Health Centres
- Dhaliwal Counselling and Psychotherapy
- Dr. Joti Samra and Associates
- Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver
- Environment and Climate Change Canada
- Filipino-Canadian Marketing Group
- Hope Bridge Services
- Ipsos Reid
- Kla How Eya Aboriginal Centre
- Kumon Learning Centre
- Boys & Girls Club - Hillside North Delta, Langley
- Langley's International Festival Society
- Language Training Center
- Life Strategies Inc
- MAD Lab
- Monarch House, Surrey
- Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House
- New Leaf Clubhouse New Westminster
- Options Services
- Pacific Community Resources SCOPE program
- Pacific Riding for Developing Abilities
- Pathways Clubhouse Richmond
- Progressive Intercultural Community Services (PICS)
- Renaissance Resort Retirement Living
- SFU Surrey — Health Sciences Continuing Studies Research Unit
- Surrey Community Services
- Surrey Crisis Pregnancy Centre
- Surrey School District Human Resources
- Surrey Women's Centre
- Synovate (Market Research)
- System Safety Services
- Telus World of Science, Vancouver
- The Centre for Child Development
- The Fairmont Vancouver Airport
- Touchstone Family Association
- UBC Dept of Psychology
- UBC Educational Psychology
- UBC Faculty of Medicine Evaluation Studies Unit
- Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
- Vancouver Crisis Line
- Vancouver Fire Dept
- Westcoast Vocational Inc
- WorkSafe BC
Comments from Previous Hosts
- "The student's research skills were on par with our graduate students."
- "She was quick to learn new skills, very dependable, able to take on responsibility, adaptable, great to work with!"
- "The student we had was a genuine pleasure to have working with us."
- "She was well organized and the research was thorough and well done."
- "We offered her a job based on her performance in the practicum."
- "We would be willing to have practicum students in some of our other programs/services as well."
- "She has done outstanding work with us."
Examples of Work/Duties
- Individual client support
- Involvement with employment screening process
- Human factors and traffic planning research experience
- Human factors project for a new employee break room
- Youth programming
- Youth programming
- Medical office assistant experience
- Basic HR task experiences
- Involvement in head injury rehab services, workshops on stress reduction
- Involvement in life skills programming & workshop development
- Involvement & planning for activities connecting people with and without disabilities
- Training in comprehensive file review and reporting on risk assessment
- Assisting and coaching, equine therapy with differently abled clients
- Involvement with services/programming for members dealing with mental illness
- Involvement and increasing responsibility preparing for mega-job-fair event
- Pharmacy assistant experience
- Experience with multiple processes in HR
- Research lab experience with increasing high levels of responsibility
- Research projects (various)
- Research project on health effects of shift work
- Psychometric assessments