Community Assistance Program




Columbia Valley Employment Center

Alberni Valley Employment



Consulting Services

Barbara O’Neil, PMgr, BA, BED and Susan Steele, PMgr, BGS, are the principals in Steele O’Neil and Associates, Inc. Although primarily involved in managing the delivery of employment and business counselling programs for Steele O’Neil, they are also available to provide a range of consulting services to small businesses and not-for-profit organizations.

Consulting experience includes:
• strategic planning, mission and vision workshops
• human resource planning, recruiting
• organizational review and re-organization
• board development
• policy and procedure development

Steele O’Neil and Associates, Inc. is committed to helping clients enhance the performance of their organizations. Steele O’Neil’s solutions ensure that people, processes, policies and systems within an organization support the overall goals and objectives they are expected to achieve.

Consulting Services for Community Agencies
and Not-for-Profit Organizations

Community service agencies are dedicated to providing service to target client groups. The ongoing service work usually takes all available resources, both funded and volunteer, to meet objectives, leaving no time for special projects.

Steele O’Neil and Associates, Inc. has developed and delivered over 25 ongoing programs and special projects, valued at over $5 million. Projects have ranged from economic development studies to youth employment programs.

Through this process and as a result of our previous work in business training and counselling, forestry training, employment programs, and business consulting, we have developed a recognized expertise in program development and management. Let us help your organization develop that special program!

We are particularly skilled in:
• writing proposals
• negotiating funding
• identifying partnerships
• organizing an managing programs,
• establishing policies and procedures
• reporting
• developing marketing strategies for new programs

Contractors have included:

• Human Resources and Skills Development Canada
• BC Ministry of Employment and Income Assistance
• Columbia Basin Trust
• ASPECT
• Ministry of Management Services
• BC Parks
• Forest Renewal BC
• Cranbrook Development Authority
• L’ax Ghels Community Law Centre Society
• Legal Services Society
• Cranbrook Arts Council

Project partners have included:

• Women’s Resource Centres
• Chambers of Commerce
• College of the Rockies
• Tourism Rockies
• The Nature Trust
• Academy of Learning
• Yahk Kingsgate Recreational Society
• Trans Canada Trail
• City of Cranbrook
• Canadian Museum of Rail Travel
• Shaw Cable


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