Materials produced from the Legitimate Opportunities to Work from Home project are now available for free online. Created to educate career professionals, these resources allow practitioners to work confidently with clients who are seeking work-from-home opportunities and want to avoid the scams. The project also helped practitioners to engage traditionally underserved client groups including people with disabilities, rural communities, Aboriginal communities, newcomers, caregivers and older workers.

Resources include:

• Legitimate Opportunities to Work from Home Workbook, which allows users to build their skills and knowledge related to legitimate opportunities to work from home and to be able to share this knowledge with clients

• Legitimate Opportunities to Work from Home Client Handout, featuring 70 validated work-from-home opportunities, from telephone-based work to virtual assistants to translation, e-learning and gaming

The Legitimate Opportunities to Work from Home project was created as a partnership between the Employment and Education Centre (EEC) in Brockville, ON and CERIC to answer the question “what are the legitimate opportunities for working from home?” The project focused on legitimate employment and independent contractor relationships and included the development and delivery of a train-the-trainer webinar series hosted by Anne-Marie Rolfe.