Regina's Ignite learning centre hopes to get last-minute funding to keep doors open

Scott Larson · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 16, 2025 1:49 PM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

Representatives from a learning centre successful Regina are going to the Legislature Wednesday successful the hopes of keeping the doors open.

Last week, Ignite Adult Learning Corporation announced that it was permanently closing its doors astatine the extremity of September aft serving the assemblage for 30 years.

The learning centre runs a Grade 12 diploma programme and provides resources for addiction betterment and suicide prevention, and lodging supports.

Ignite bureau manager Sandra LaRose said it's closing due to the fact that of a chopped successful authorities funding. As it stands, the centre volition enactment unfastened until September to springiness students a accidental to modulation to different programs.

LaRose said the centre provided overmuch much than conscionable a Grade 12 diploma and that the closure volition impact the Regina assemblage successful galore ways.

"Increased homelessness, accrued unemployment," LaRose said. "There's going to be people that are looking for employment that don't person the qualifications and an increase [of people] connected societal assistance due to the fact that of conscionable not having the opportunities."

Abbygail Woolsey is presently pursuing her big Grade 12 from Ignite and said it has changed her life.

"I was conscionable benignant of astatine a constituent successful my beingness wherever I needed change," Woolsey said. "Just the magnitude of assurance and the experiences and opportunities I've been capable to summation present are conscionable phenomenal."

She said the schoolhouse helped with applications to unafraid income and find a spot to live.

"It's helped maine turn as a citizen successful Canada, a parent and conscionable a idiosyncratic successful general," said Woolsey, whose extremity is to proceed her acquisition and get into nursing. "I don't cognize wherever I would beryllium successful my beingness if I didn't travel to Ignite."