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Advancing Futures for Women

  • Making Changes Association empowers women in transition by helping them build confidence and skills so they can participate in their communities.

  • Making Changes assists more than 2,000 women and girls each year.

  • All programs are free of charge and prepare women who want to join the workforce, return to school, or volunteer.

Our programs include:

Building Confidence and Skills

  • The program helps develop life skills, find a career path, improve communication, and gain an understanding of Canadian business culture.

  • Offered through virtual classrooms each year over 110 women access the program.

A Wardrobe that Works

  • Dress for Success Calgary, a division of Making Changes, is 90-minute individual consultation for women to create a professional, business wardrobe.  

  • Participants are offered gently used clothing and accessories at no cost to help them look and feel their best.

  • In 2021, we provided support to over 1,000 clients through in-person or virtual appointments.

Fashion for School and for Fun!

  • My Best Friend’s Closet (MBFC) offers teenage girls a full wardrobe of clothing and accessories to meet their school, employment, and recreational needs - all at no cost to their families.

  • Fitting in is an essential part of a young person's life. Having a selection of stylish items assists helps youth want to attend school and gives them the confidence to connect with peers.  

  • My Best Friend’s Closet also provides volunteer opportunities to young women in the community, Volunteers for this program are peer and near-peer-aged to best relate to clients.

  • In 2021, over 350 teenage girls accessed the program for support.

Careers of the Future

  • The Women in Technology Program (WIT) is a skills training program that works to create employment opportunities for unemployed or underemployed immigrant and aboriginal women in the booming tech sector in Calgary.

  • The goal is to increase women's economic security by reducing barriers to women's participation in a male-dominated tech sector industry.

  • The program is delivered at no cost to 32 women a year and 70% of the graduates have secured employment within 6 months of completing the program.

TAGGING/MENTIONS & HASHTAGS

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT!

All persons welcome at making changes

Making Changes acknowledges the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy which includes the Siksika, Piikani, Kainai, the Tsuut’ina Nation and Stoney Nakoda Nations of Chiniki, Bearspaw and Wesley and the Metis people of Alberta, Regions 5 & 6. We honour the hardships that were endured by the peoples on this land to allow us to be in this space to do the work that we do in our community. We respect the culture of the peoples who walk through our doors and we strive to provide space for them. We acknowledge that Indigenous peoples continue to experience hardships and our agency will be champions for change in our daily service to community. Making Changes is committed to inclusivity and recognition of all peoples who make their homes in the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta.