by Ashton Bennett | Sep 11, 2019 | Blog
October is an eventful month that sees dropping temperatures, bite-sized candies being sold in mass quantities, days becoming shorter and some of that white stuff starting to fall from the skies. October is also the provincially proclaimed month of DEAM-...
by Ashton Bennett | Jul 16, 2019 | Blog
Let’s pretend we’re being introduced to each other quickly for the first time and you ask me, “What do you do for a living?” I reply, “I am a Career Consultant.” And you mirror back to me the awkward, unsettled look on my face that has accompanied my response. It’s...
by Ashton Bennett | Sep 17, 2018 | Blog
While local retailers are already decking their early-September halls with Halloween costumes, a plethora of winter ware and advent calendars (!?!?), some of us here at CAES are not yet ready to accept the closing of our 2018 summer (me)! So let’s talk summer for a...
by Calgary Alternative Employment Services | Apr 18, 2018 | Blog
Social work researcher sparks national conversation on increased quality of life for adults with autism. There is an interesting and provocative question posed by the researcher in this article; “how well equipped are employers to include people with autism...
by Melissa Price | Feb 7, 2018 | Blog
Recently, I had the unique experience of dining in the dark. Utter and complete blackness. The concept of this dining experience is to provide insight to the guests as to what it’s like for the millions of people living with blindness to maneuver through such an...
