About Us
ArriveBC is a Skills Connect program, funded by the B.C. Ministry of Economic Development, and jointly offered by Back in Motion and MOSAIC. ArriveBC aims to help skilled immigrants move more quickly into jobs that match their experience and background. We specialize in helping immigrants prepare for and obtain employment in the construction, transportation, and health sectors.
ArriveBC offers career assessment and planning services, access to courses and certification, workplace practice opportunities, and job placements. Many immigrants have skills in occupations where there are shortages, but face challenges in navigating a complex labour market entry system, language barriers, difficulty getting their credentials recognized, and lack of employment networks. ArriveBC will address all of these issues and more. We provide immigrants with the resources, support, and expertise they require to attain their career goal in B.C.
It is expected that the B.C. Skills Connect Program will help over 5,000 immigrants obtain employment in areas related to their skills and qualifications. ArriveBC will work with almost 1400 of those clients. Both Back in Motion and MOSAIC are very experienced in helping people find meaningful work.
Since 1992,
Back in Motion
has been providing innovative solutions to job seekers, employees, employers, and program funders. Our 60 employees and contractors deliver assessment, pre-employment, and vocational rehabilitation programs and services throughout the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley. Back in Motion has helped over 6,000 clients regain their quality of life.
Growing and broadening our services requires professionals from various disciplines, working together to support people to successfully work and reach independence. It also takes professionals who understand both workers and employers, and who can work creatively to satisfy each group. To meet these needs, Back in Motion has assembled a leading team of top practitioners from a variety of disciplines. Our program and service staff is of the highest calibre, and are leaders in their respective disciplines. Our team is ethnically diverse and includes professionals from the following language groups: Punjabi, Hindi, Mandarin, Dutch, Cantonese, Farsi, Flemish, German, and French.
Back in Motion's core values reflect our principles, ideals, and deeply held beliefs about helping people return to work and live full lives. These values stand alone—each one is vital to the effective functioning of the organization, and defines the environment in which we work.
The following core values are central to Back in Motion:
- Achieve excellence; doing whatever it takes
- Ask questions; seek solutions
- The passion and power of the team
- Respect for all, always
- Measuring up: evidence-based methods and practice
- Honour our word and do the right thing.
MOSAIC is a multilingual, not-for-profit organization dedicated to serving immigrants and refugees with settlement and integration needs for almost 30 years. Through diverse programs and services, MOSAIC serves over 35,000 clients each year assisting them to fully participate in Canadian society. The agency provides ongoing community assistance through our Settlement Services, Family Programs, Language Services (Interpretations and Translations), Language Centre and Daycare, and Employment Programs. MOSAIC has specific language capability in 26 languages in Settlement Services and over 90 languages through Languages Services.
Over the past 18 years, MOSAIC has successfully delivered over two-dozen employment programs and services to assist tens of thousands of unemployed immigrants and refugees to find meaningful employment. Through current programs and services, we serve approximately 2,000 clients each year, many of whom are skilled immigrants. MOSAIC has delivered effective services through funding from many sources including several provincial ministries and federal departments.