Options Mississauga Print and Office Services
Registered Name: OPTIONS MISSISSAUGA PRINT AND OFFICE SERVICES
Business No: 138420567RR0001
This organization is designated by Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) as a registered charity. They comply with the CRA's requirements and has been issued a charitable registration number.
Who We Are: Options Mississauga is a federally incorporated charity which has operated a successful social enterprise in the Port Credit area of Mississauga since 1993.
Our Mission: Options Mississauga provides unique programs, including employment training and paid work experience, for individuals aged 18+ who are neurodiverse or have an intellectualdisability, empowering them to build skills, confidence, and independence.
Our Vision: A community where individuals who have an intellectual disability are able to access and sustain employment options as an integral element of community inclusion.
Our mission helps to empower neurodiverse and intellectually disabled individuals with employability skills, social/soft skills, and hands-on hard skills training in various industries by providing an inclusive and accessible training and employment environment.
Our Programs:
Our Retail Training Program uses the infrastructure of our retail printing and office services store to provide skills development related to retail employment, and provides a pool of potential candidates for internal employment in our organization.
Our Arts Training Program offers training by professional artists to individuals who are interested in developing a self-directed career as artists.
Our Culinary Training Program offers cooking and food handling training by a professional chef to individuals who are interested in seeking employment in the food services industry. About 2/3 of intellectually disabled adults in Canada who are employed have found jobs in this sector.
Our Horticulture Training Program is the newest addition - providing skills training that are transferrable to a variety of jobs - as well as developing customer service and sales skills
Our Business: We currently several social enterprises with more on the horizon
- Options Mississauga Print and Office Services retail store provides a full array of printing products. We also provide office services such as Mailboxes, Photocopying, FAXing, Laminating, Shredding and Purolator Shipping and more.
- Options Mississauga Visual Arts Enterprise promotes and sells amazing artwork created by intellectually disabled artists.
- Options Culinary Catering has provided paid work for our students preparing meals for outreach programs such as In From The Cold as well as for other not for profit events.
- The same products/services at competitive prices
- PLUS every dollar spent directly supports a valuable community cause.