Community Partners
RHODES WELLNESS COLLEGE
Mountainside Wellness is proud to partner with Rhodes Wellness College - offering eight students each year a one of a kind opportunity to learn and work at a private practice focused on removing boundaries on mental health and wellness services that are often out of reach for the Indigenous, BIPOC, 2SLGBTQIA+, disabled, and neurodivergent communities.
ABOUT RHODES WELLNESS COLLEGE
Established in 1996, Rhodes Wellness College has graduated hundreds of successful students who have gone on to meaningful careers as coaches, counsellors, outreach workers, and more. While theory and knowledge have always been a core component of the college’s programs, Rhodes College specializes in teaching students how to apply and practice the theory and knowledge they learn in their life, their workplace, and with their clients.
At Rhodes, the experiential learning model is used. Experiential learning is the process of actively engaging students in an authentic experience that will have benefits and consequences. Students make discoveries and experiment with knowledge themselves instead of only hearing or reading about the experiences of others. Students also reflect on their experiences, thus developing new skills, attitudes, and new theories or ways of thinking. The Rhodes training program is based on the medicine wheel of emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical wellness.
HECATE STRAIT EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY
With a core commitment to supporting youth and members of marginalized communities, Mountainside Wellness takes great pride in supporting the Blade Runners and Gear Up programs at Hecate Strait with online mental health and counselling services. Our partnership offers youth aged 16-30 an opportunity to work on their mental health while learning valuable and important employment skills.
ABOUT HECATE STRAIT EMPLOYMENT DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY
Our core mission revolves around service to our community and forging meaningful connections that help individuals realize their employment, training, and settlement goals.
What is BladeRunners?
BladeRunners is a 10-week training and personal growth program. This program will inspire participants to think creatively, design ideas, have the confidence to act, lead, and gain skills to succeed at post-secondary training.
What is Gear Up?
Gear Up is a 12-week virtual personal growth, training, and career program. Participants will spend 6 weeks in group training and 6 weeks in an individualized career training stream before starting a job search.
Mix of online group meetups, virtual training, independent work, and community-based activities.
Mountainside Wellness proudly offers two internship placements each year to students of Stenberg College’s Counselling Therapist Program.
About the School:
Stenberg College has prepared students for caring careers in the Education, Health Care, and Human Services fields.
All of our programs are developed in collaboration with employers, ensuring our graduates are job-ready, which is why over 98% of our graduates are employed in their field of study within 6 months of program completion.
We are accredited by the B.C. government’s Ministry of Advanced Education through the Private Training Institutions Branch (PTIB). PTIB is responsible for setting standards of quality and ensuring consumer protection. Stenberg College has also received the B.C. government’s Education Quality Assurance (EQA) designation. We are also authorized by EduCanada, the official Government of Canada resource for international students.
In 2023, Stenberg College was acquired by Canadian College, an educational institution that focuses on providing international students with diploma and certificate programs in Business, Hospitality, International Trade and Information Technology.
We are a proud, Canada-based post-secondary educator, with an exceptional reputation and an unparalleled commitment to our students and their success.