Offers accessible skills training and learning opportunities for young adults with intellectual and developmental exceptionalities.
CommUnity Café and Birds, Bees, and Butterflies Program (CIF): The CommUnity Cafe Program teaches valuable, transferrable skills in the culinary, food service, and customer service industry. Students develop important skills, such as social, cash handling, food service, food handling, inventory management, prioritizing, speed and efficiency, in addition to important life and independence skills of preparing, cooking, and baking food.
In the Birds, Bees, and Butterflies Gardening Program, students learn all basic gardening skills including components needed for plant life, food cycle, composting, vermicomposting, watering systems, seed starting, pruning, weeding, building support structures, proper spacing, harvesting, succession planting, and seed saving. Both programs teach employable skills as well as skills for greater independence. When the skills are mastered, Bloom Skills Centre supports the transition to employment.
VIA Rail Café (CIF): Expansion of the CommUnity Cafe program which offers accessible skills training and learning opportunities for young adults with intellectual and developmental exceptionalities. By partnering with VIA Rail Canada, the café will be a place where students who might not yet be able to work fully independently, can be provided with support on the job.
