From 2006-2008, YES Employment Services has employed Owen Marks to research, develop, and deliver a model of counselling ethics training related to the needs of employment counsellors. With the support of , The Counselling Foundation of Canada, YES has been provided the opportunity to advance our training model and to share best practices with employment counselling agencies throughout Ontario.

In 2004, YES won the Award for Service Delivery Innovation aimed at improving customer service. View and utilize the seven counselling practice and theory training modules that earned YES the ASDI.

This research undertaking is one initiative that attempts to address the issue of youth migration from Thunder Bay by focusing on gaps in local employment services to this city’s young people.

This report summarizes the findings of the "homeless youth" street worker team consisting of seconded agency workers and Youth Service Canada project members. It provides a snapshot of youth homelessness in Thunder Bay in 2001.