ASPIRE Community Services (Actualizing Self Reliance by Providing Inspiration, Resources & Education) aims at promoting client development and independence. We recognize the challenges that clients face in supporting themselves by focusing on three core areas: education, employment and community support. By acting as liaisons between clients and readily available resources in Metro Vancouver, volunteer caseworkers empower clients as they navigate their way to a brighter future. Some of the areas we help our registering clients in the ESL program and motivating them to complete it, connecting them to resources to help them develop or upgrade their skills and get a job, accompanying clients to doctors appointments, assisting with learning the transit system and facilitating access to community organizations and government services and connecting them to their places of worship. The ASPIRE Refugee Assistance Program focuses on the unique challenges refugees face during the settlement process. The HOPE (Healing Opportunities through Prevention and Education) project is an extension of the ASPIRE Program where we provide support to youth struggling with mental health, behavioural and substance use challenges. ASPIRE Training Institute's ("Institution") purpose is to build capacity in volunteers and staff serving not-for-profit and/or educational organizations and promoting access to education and other basic needs for the less fortunate. The institution trains caseworkers for community support, counselling, mentoring and guiding the less fortunate people to become self-reliant and to be able to navigate through challenges of addictions, behavioural and mental health challenges. The Institution seeks to give people the opportunity of working together in their communities, developing their capacity and skills, and putting into practice those work ethics, honesty, responsibility, accountability and integrity for which the Institution promotes.