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2 | (Achev) Quality Continuous Improvement Centre for Community Education and Training | Futures in Digital Health | The Futures in Digital Health project is aligned with the priority of research and analysis. The project will assist internationally trained healthcare and information technology professionals in finding alternative careers in health informatics (HI) and will be delivered in Toronto in collaboration with Digital Health Canada (DHC). The project includes an experimentation component that will study the results of traditional networking and job shadowing activities to that of programming that includes sector specific information and employment supports delivered by a professional organization. In-class sessions will be delivered to all participants providing information on employability, pre-employment, business communication training with sessions on workplace culture and sector specific information. The recipient will track employment and education outcomes of both groups to determine if in-person training, materials, and networking opportunities from a professional association are more effective in producing desired outcomes, compared to a more generic resources/computer access, informational interviews, job shadowing and assisted job search will better ensure success. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | (Achev) Quality Continuous Improvement Centre for Community Education and Training | Compass Initiative (CI) | The Compass Initiative project is of regional scope and is aligned with the priority of research and analysis. The project is intended to create the connection between newcomers and the services they are eligible to access from Service Provider Organizations. Using a guided data driven model IRCC eligible newcomers will be able to connect and gain access to available settlement services based on their specific eligibility and share their basic information effectively for intake and service. The final product will be a web-based application for newcomers and stakeholders to gain greater access to services to improve service delivery. The project will measure the effectiveness of increased data sharing and the potential use of data to help in service mapping and asset management. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Accessible Community Counselling and Employment Services (A.C.C.E.S.) | Recruiting and Retaining Refugee Youth | The project's priority is aligned with youth supports, and targets refugee youth. ACCES will assist youth in securing competitive entry-level employment by addressing barriers such as language, lack of familiarity with Canadian business culture, and inability to access the labour market. ACCES will deliver the program in collaboration with Starbucks Canada, which has committed to hiring 1000 refugees in Canada. 360 youth will receive a comprehensive suitability assessment, customer service certification, sensitivity training, and one-on-one language and cross-cultural coaching both pre- and post-hire. The majority of candidates will be hired by Starbucks, while others will be positioned and supported to secure employment in a customer service capacity elsewhere. Starbucks hiring managers will also receive sensitivity training and onboarding support throughout this initiative. In addition to Starbucks, OTEC and Magnet are confirmed partners on the project. OTEC will deliver Customer Service Training; and together with Magnet, they will offer clients a detailed Skills and Suitability Assessment that they are developing in collaboration with Starbucks Canada. A comprehensive evaluation of the project will build knowledge of this service delivery model that can be easily adapted to address a broad range of job seeker and employer needs in different sectors nationally. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Accessible Community Counselling and Employment Services (A.C.C.E.S.) | Construction Trades Program - Pay-for-Performance Pilot Project | An accelerated pathway to apprenticeship and employment in the construction trades, this comprehensive, client-centered and outcomes-driven program is targeted at newcomers facing multiple barriers to employment, including refugees, youth, those with limited educational attainment, individuals with low literacy and/or English language proficiency. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | ALTERED MINDS INC. | Living English for Employment (LEE) | The language acquisition project, Living English for Employment will assist English as an Additional Language learners at CLB 4 and under in building labour market connections and employability skills, supported by language development in the classroom. Each learner will volunteer with an employment partner at least 1 day per week in July and August, and spend the remainder of the 102-hour program in the classroom. When selecting participants, priority will be given to recent arrivals with the most limited English language/literacy skills. A majority of the learners will be refugees at CLB 1-2 within their first 2-3 years in Canada who face multiple barriers to employment. Participants will benefit by: • maintaining or enhancing language skills during the summer when other EAL programs are closed • increasing on-site job and communication skills • increasing knowledge and confidence in Canadian work places and communities • developing skills for employment, self-employment, entrepreneurship and self-reliance, and • increasing their social and economic engagement in Canadian workplaces and communities. | MB | |||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Association des collèges et universités de la Francophonie canadienne (ACUFC) | Les étudiants internationaux, le point d’ancrage de l’immigration économique pour assurer la vitalité de nos communautés | The research and analysis priority project will be carried out by the Association des collèges et universités de la Francophonie canadienne (ACUFC), with contributions from ACUFC members in the form of services and from about 10 service providers (institutions and organizations) and international students who sit on the project’s advisory committee. The project targets a specific clientele: French speaking international students enrolled in Francophone institutions, with a view to: 1) better identifying the role of post-secondary institutions (PSEs) in the Canadian Francophonie in preparing this critical ‘input’ (international students) to meet the Government of Canada’s economic immigration objectives; and 2) understanding the linkages with settlement services in Francophone minority communities (FMCs). The research will result in a better understanding of efficiencies in the settlement of international students, selected as permanent residents, in FMCs. The goal of the linkage of the services delivered by the 21 PSEs to international students, and the FMCs’ settlement services, is to foster quicker and more successful integration into the community. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Association for Canadian Studies | The Canadian Index for Measuring Integration 2.0: Expansion and Enhancement | The Canadian Index for Integration (CIMI) provides a credible framework for ongoing assessment of the state of immigrant integration in Canada through research and piloting. The CIMI identifies factors that underlie successful immigrant integration as well as its changes and trends through a mixed-methods evidence-based approach. Building off of the established CIMI over the past 18 months, the expansion into CIMI 2.0 will include activities, such as incorporation of the 2016 Census data; analysis of generation status, immigration category, selected identity markers; continuity of the Expert Advisory Committee; update the integration index Web site with appropriate additions; and outreach to and feedback from CIMI users via the ACS website and forums over the course of two years. | QC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Association for New Canadians | Food Trailer: Facilitating Economic Integration Through Entrepreneurship | The Association for New Canadians (ANC), in partnership with a local culinary training institution, will develop and deliver a social enterprise employment priority project that will provide training, mentorship, and work experience to two groups of twelve refugee participants. The participants, including youth and women in the St. John's Metro area, will work to develop their employability and entrepreneurship skills within the food service industry. | NL | |||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Board of Education of School District 41 -Burnaby | The Burnaby Youth Wraparound Project | This youth supports research project tests approaches to the settlement and integration needs of vulnerable at-risk immigrant and refugee youth (18-24) who have aged out of the school system, often without graduating, and those in Grade 12 with no prospect of graduation. It builds on Integrate Burnaby's current support programs for this group, all students at Burnaby schools. The pilot program includes comprehensive processes for: assessment; referral; skills assessment; targeted information and orientation services; as well as specialized group supports. In addition to replicating, scaling, and testing existing approaches, an innovative wraparound approach, including the specialized Education Reboot Program run by Douglas College, is central to the proposed research project, providing comprehensive client-centric settlement services. | BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Board of Education of School District No 43 | INTEGRATE - Canada Coquitlam | This youth supports research project focused on employment will test an integrated, user-centered approach to support late arrival immigrant and refugee youth who are in a transitional period toward adulthood in Coquitlam, BC with the development of an individualized, career plan and to obtain Canadian work experience. The project will deliver an innovative wrap-around approach that will provide client-centric settlement services all in one site and include access to other various programs and services that are offered by the Coquitlam School District. This project will also provide these late arrival immigrant and refugee youth knowledge of the Canadian work environment and the training and skills to look and apply for work. | BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Bolu Intermediary Services | Aurora Project | The Aurora Project will develop and test a new service delivery model designed to foster and nurture the entrepreneurial spirit of the newcomer population. The project will target newcomers interested in starting or building businesses. Targeted resources will be developed that address specific needs of the newcomer population. The service will be individualized and client-centered and will lead newcomers to business success through a series of steps designed to build their capacity and decision-making skills. A key component is developing close cooperative relationships with other support agencies; resulting in a collaborative, team approach to serving the client’s needs. Activities will include establishing and maintaining relationships with organizations that support eligible entrepreneurs and can provide mentorship opportunities, one-on-one information sessions to eligible participants, individual assessment of capacity building, assessment of business ideas as well as any job creation, maintenance, and technical assistance support after business is launched. Both society and the newcomer will benefit from this program. This Service Delivery Improvement Project relates to the employment priority. The project is focused on newcomers who are interested in starting or building businesses. | MB | |||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Brampton Multicultural Community Centre | NewYouthHack: Helping Newcomer Youth Reinvent Settlement Services | Develop and test an effective and user-friendly digital solution that addresses needs, challenges and desires of newcomer and refugee youth. As the solution will be developed with the active involvement of newcomer and refugee youth, it is believed that the proposed digital solution will greatly benefit them. The proposed digital solution is expected to benefit newcomer and refugee youth in several ways: 1) access to information on post secondary education including a mentor who can answer their questions, 2) access to volunteer opportunities 3) access to employment opportunities and 4) tools to create their resume. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Calgary Immigrant Women's Association | Health Literacy Partnership: Improving Health Outcomes for Multi-barriered Immigrants and Refugees | Calgary Immigrant Women’s Association (CIWA) will deliver a three-part project with an aim to improve the health literacy outcomes of low educated second language and literacy acquisition (LESLLA) learners. The project will bring together healthcare professionals, LESLLA learners and instructors to develop a series of tools and resources to better equip healthcare professionals to deliver health services to newcomer clients, as well as to assist with newcomer client’s ability to understanding and communicate within the healthcare system. These tools will be accessible through an online portal for use by healthcare professionals and LESLLA instructors. The project will work to address the health literacy, and related competencies of adult literacy learners, but will also work towards increasing the capacity of organizations and systems through collaboration between literacy learners, literacy instructors and health care workers and administrators. CIWA will partner with the Mosaic Primary Care Clinic in Calgary on this initiative. This Service Delivery Improvement project relates to the research and analysis priority. The project is focused on services for newcomer women and vulnerable clients, and will improve newcomer well-being and language skills. | AB | |||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Catholic Crosscultural Services | Scarborough Newcomer Settlement Needs and Trends Report | The Scarborough Newcomer Settlement Needs and Trends Report aims to create a digital centralized platform as well as a semi-annual report that will allow Recipients in the Scarborough area to share service delivery data and other relevant data from community and government sources for joint analysis. The project will be led by the Toronto East Quadrant Local Immigration Partnership, working with the University of Toronto Scarborough, and guided by an advisory committee of representatives from participating organizations. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Catholic Crosscultural Services | Small Business Support Project | The Small Business Support Project will conduct research and analysis in order to develop a delivery model that supports newcomers with lower language levels who are interested in entrepreneurship and starting their own business. Activities within the delivery model aim to help newcomers overcome the language barrier, gain access to services and resources that are currently available, prepare newcomers and connect them with other entrepreneurs, as well as build confidence when implementing their business ideas. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Centre de santé communautaire du Grand Sudbury | Projet pilote d'intégration des nouveaux arrivants francophones du Grand Sudbury | The research and analysis priority project will be carried out by the Association des collèges et universités de la Francophonie canadienne (ACUFC), with contributions from ACUFC members in the form of services and from about 10 service providers (institutions and organizations) and international students who sit on the project’s advisory committee. The project targets a specific clientele: French speaking international students enrolled in Francophone institutions, with a view to: 1) better identifying the role of post-secondary institutions (PSEs) in the Canadian Francophonie in preparing this critical ‘input’ (international students) to meet the Government of Canada’s economic immigration objectives; and 2) understanding the linkages with settlement services in Francophone minority communities (FMCs). The research will result in a better understanding of efficiencies in the settlement of international students, selected as permanent residents, in FMCs. The goal of the linkage of the services delivered by the 21 PSEs to international students, and the FMCs’ settlement services, is to foster quicker and more successful integration into the community. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Centre for Community Based Research | Evaluation capacity-building for refugee resettlement | This project will build evaluation capacity in the resettlement sector across Canada to improve services and outcomes for refugees. The Centre for Community Based Research (CCBR) will work with the Evaluation Capacity Network, University of Alberta (UofA) to lead this project. The project draws on the growing movement toward evaluation capacity-building within the non-profit sector and will build on past refugees evaluations in Canada. This will fit into the research and analysis SDI priority. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario - Ottawa Children's Treatment Centre | Development and Implementation of a National Newcomer Navigator Network | The project will develop a national network to standardize the implementation of Newcomer Navigator Programs in children and adult healthcare sector as well as in settlement sector. The Newcomer Navigator Network will be developed through outreach and needs assessment activities to 5-9 provinces with videoconference learning sessions as the core of the project. Best practices will be shared within and outside the Network through its website as well as through two conferences of the Network. The project planning, implementation and evaluation will be guided by a Steering Committee which will include education partners, CHEO staff and youth/families of former refugees/newcomers. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Colleges Ontario | Building Knowledge/Capacity for Online Language Learning for the Workplace and Helping Clients Transition to Work | Colleges Ontario will pilot a Service Delivery Initiative (SDI) project to expand the sector's knowledge and capacity to deliver Occupation-Specific Language training (OSLT) and Socio-Cultural communication skills training in English and French online. This new initiative will help eligible newcomers at CLB 6-8/NCLC 5/6-8 to find and maintain employment in Ontario. The new Indirect Pilot Project will also build on existing OSLT curriculum currently delivered via face-to-face classroom and blended formats by colleges in Ontario. It will pilot delivery of modular online OSLT-in-the-workplace courses to newcomers already working by collaborating with entrepreneurs and employers in high-demand sectors (business, health care and technology); expand exclusively online OSLT offerings in high-demand sectors (business, health care and technology) to serve clients in underserviced areas or who need flexible delivery; develop self-directed online language-learning activities and apps in English and French to help clients in all OSLT courses practice occupation-specific communication skills, enhance their digital competencies and develop effective job interview skills and measure the effectiveness of Occupation-Specific Language and Socio-Cultural communications skills training in English and French delivered using. Delivery of these services will be through thirteen (13) Ontario Colleges. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | CONNECTURE CANADA | Bénévolat efficace pour le succès des immigrants et nouveaux arrivants francophones | The project focuses on using and managing volunteers in organizations to integrate the distinction between the Charitable Volunteering that organizations need and the Skills-Building Volunteering that immigrants and newcomers need. Strategies and mechanisms that facilitate the management of volunteering based on these two expectations will be put in place to ensure that volunteers acquire the necessary skills. This will also facilitate the matching of applicants’ expectations vis-à-vis their need for skill-building volunteering with the types of volunteering currently provided in organizations. Improved volunteer opportunities on the part of organizations will boost the attraction, retention and valuing of volunteers and succession in organizations and the community. In addition, volunteers will acquire the necessary skills for their successful professional, personal and civic integration as immigrants. The project targets both Francophone and non-Francophone organizations that have the capacity to provide services in French, supervise at least three employees and serve Francophone immigrants and newcomers. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Conseil Canadien des ressources humaines en tourisme | Employing Newcomers in Stable, Good Paying Hotel Jobs | This pan-Canadian initiative aims to employ 1300 unemployed or underemployed newcomers in sustainable, well-paid, long term hotel jobs that require minimal English or French and in executive roles for individuals with prior experience. Supported by a sustainable, systemic model for employment preparation, it is expected that the first cohort will be employed within a few months of the project commencement. The project will start in a few selected urban centers to demonstrate success, then scale up to include additional urban or rural centers. Tourism HR Canada will work with a key partner, the Hotel Association of Canada, and other provincial and local labor market partners, e.g. GoC-funded language training providers. It is market-led, based on significant consultations with employers who will be sponsors of the program, responsible for hiring participants and providing paid and in-kind contributions. Building on existing programs/services, it focuses on optimizing resources and improving collaborations among community service providers and other labor market stakeholders. It will be overseen by a National Advisory Committee and monitored using a comprehensive evaluation strategy. This three year project will assist newcomers gaining job experience and workplace language skills, and develop and test an innovative model. Knowledge developed from this project is expected to be transferrable to other areas to support newcomers employment through an innovative approach. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Department of Imaginary Affairs | The Story Stitching Project | Under the Service Delivery Improvement (SDI) initiative, The Story Stitching Project, with the Department of Imaginary Affairs focuses on the priority of newcomer well-being and programming to support vulnerable clients. This project aims to empower newcomers and help them feel more connected to their communities by allowing them to share their settlement stories and practice their English. More specifically, the project involves 3 main components: stories of newcomers written by them in their native language; translation of that story into English; and multiple versions of the same story in various levels of English comprehension according to Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) Standards. The stories will be collected in the Recipients ESL library, available for ESL educators and learners to download or print. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Diversis inc. | Renforcement de l'esprit entrepreneurial pour l'optimisation du potentiel d'intégration économique des immigrants | This employment priority project will develop a province-wide service delivery model to improve the economic integration (through employment or entrepreneurship) of newcomers and thereby increase the conditions for their retention in New Brunswick. Through this agreement, the model will provide a better understanding of the predisposition to economic integration (through employment or entrepreneurship) of immigrant groups in New Brunswick, who often have a harder time integrating economically. | NB | |||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Douglas College | LINC Engage for Youth: A 3-year creative project-based, user-centred LINC & essential skills program for 72 immigrant/refugee youth aged 18-24 in Surrey, BC. | The youth supports program plans, creates and promotes a client-chosen educational and artistic creative project. Youth gain language skills and peer connections, confidence, and resiliency by creating and marketing something tangible. The projects mimic a work environment and integrate essential skills. Lessons learned about instruction and types of projects are passed to successive cohorts and increase the knowledge of youth learners. Materials and instruction are PBLA focused and test a service delivery model to create confident, integrated, employable youth better connected to their communities. The literacy and essential skills provide the foundation for learning all other skills. Essential skills will be evaluated using a scale created by the Office of Literacy and Essential Skills Canada, Employment and Social Development Canada. | BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Familles Canada | Integrating Senior Newcomers through Intergenerational Volunteering at Family Support Centers | This pilot project aims to reduce social isolation of newcomer seniors (65+) in Canada. This will be achieved through piloting the successful American "Experience Corps" intergenerational program in Canada with newcomer seniors and pre-school children at selected family support centers. This project meets the Service Delivery Improvements stream of funding with a priority of harnessing volunteers. Activities include: developing resources to promote intergenerational volunteering among newcomer seniors, training service providers and seniors, individual needs and service gaps assessment, and assessments of service bridging and coordination by family support sites with other service hubs in the settlement sector. The project will also measure the benefits to pre-school children who participate in the program from an Early Childhood Development lens and senior newcomers’ training will include Positive Discipline approaches. Experts in gerontology, early childhood development, positive discipline and social integration will be engaged as project partners in developing, evaluating and documenting the pilot project with a view to adaptation and scaling up across the country. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Family Dynamics | Making Connections: Building Community | Neighborhood Immigrant Settlement Workers (NISW), newcomers and partners to identify best practices and ways of improving NISW model for supporting community-based settlement and integration, especially for vulnerable newcomer youth. The objectives of the project is to analyze the scope and best practices of Manitoba’s Neighborhood Immigrant Settlement Workers (NISWs) and identifying ways of describing, sharing, and improving the impacts of their work in a manner than can be scaled up for NISWs and Settlement Workers in Schools (SWIS) in other regions. | MB | |||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House | Newcomer Youth Luv the Grub | Frog Hollow Neighbourhood House has partnered with ‘Luv the Grub’, a social enterprise providing food production training to youth while diverting food waste. Through this partnership, the 'Newcomer Youth Luv the Grub' project will engage vulnerable newcomer youth in East Vancouver by providing them with food production training while creating and sustaining partnerships with local food retailers, farmers, and employers. The Recipient will connect the participating youth with in-house and partner resources in order to provide them with one-to-one wrap-around support, as required, including settlement and employment counseling, transportation supports and connections to community resources. | BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | Georgian College of A.A. & T. | Positive practices serving immigrants in employment services | In Ontario, employment services are typically geared to the general population; discussions with service providers indicate that they often struggle when presented with the sometimes unique needs of population subsets, such as immigrants, particularly outside large urban center's. This project will examine and identify positive practices in supporting immigrants through the Employment Ontario Employment Services (EOES) network. While the research will be centered in Barrie and Simcoe County, province-wide input will be sought to inform, test and distribute the findings. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Great Plains College | Family Literacy Project (Newcomers) for Language Acquisition | This language acquisition project involves parents and their children in each other's language learning and settlement by tailoring the program for families. Topics of instruction include family literacy skills, language training, and knowledge of community resources to enhance newcomer well-being. The adults and youth will learn together for a portion of class time to encourage shared learning goals for all family members and continued learning outside class hours. The project will include childcare with a focus on childhood literacy learning. | SK | |||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Halton Community Legal Services | Newcomer Conversations - Learning Canadian Law | Halton Community Legal Services: This project falls under the employment priority stream. This project will be a series of facilitated workshops with refugees and newcomers who have been in the community longer than six months. The format of the workshops will utilize a human rights lens through which participants can share their experiences and challenges. Participants will work together on solutions to overcome the barrier of a lack of Canadian experience. Canadian experience in this context refers to not only a lack of Canadian employment experience, credentials and education but also to inexperience with the local rental housing market and landlord and tenant laws and how to access the social safety net. By building on the experiences of participants, legal clinic staff will introduce basic human rights concepts along with information on employment rights, housing rights and income security entitlements and community supports and services that are available to support settlement. The outcomes will be that newcomers’ knowledge of Canadian law is increased and that this will support their settlement in Canada. Increased access to legal services for newcomers will be achieved through raising awareness of free services. This project will also promote client trust and navigation of the Canadian legal system. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Halton Multicultural Council | Job Coaching for Refugees and Newcomers with Language Barriers | This project addresses the employment and language acquisition priorities and aims to assist newcomers struggling with IRCC funded language training programs to improve their language skills through work, workshops and activities in the Peel and Halton community. Two job coaches will conduct a one-week workshop with clients whose language is level 4 or lower, ensure their resumes are up to date, provide basic understanding of job searching, get an idea of their career goals and provide guidance on achieving their goals. The Job Coaches will assist the clients to overcome any work barriers, ensure they have the appropriate child care and access to the appropriate transportation to get to and from work placement site. In the next phase, the job coaches will help the participants find jobs and support them in the first months of employment to learn the basic work related vocabulary and job safety requirements. Depending on the work environment, the job coach will also assist the participants with the development of informal networks to encourage them to speak English. The job coaches will work with the employers who hire 3 or more participants to offer language training at least twice a week on the employer work site for a minimum of 2 hours each session. For clients who do not have access to on site language training, an alternative class will be run once a week for 3 hours in a group setting according to their schedules , ideally close to their residence. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Immigrant Employment Council of BC Society | ASCEND - Applied Skills Curriculum to Empower Newcomer Employment (aka Employment 101) | This employment priority project is developing and testing an employment training model in partnership with identified stakeholders to assist service provider organizations to better prepare newcomers to meet and adapt to the needs of the labour market in Metro Vancouver. | BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia | Bridge to Entrepreneurship | Vulnerable clients (e.g. low language level, often refugees) make products but lack knowledge and financial resources to sell at a farmers’ market. This innovative and supportive Employment priority program will test and evaluate an incubator model to empower clients to use their entrepreneurial skills. Clients will participate in an adapted, customized training program to sell fresh produce and value-added products at the Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market and partner with industry and community organizations (e.g. Common Roots Urban Farm). The program will entail: • 2-3 clients per/2-3 weekdays selling at an "incubator" table; • business counselling/coaching; • business language training for low-level language clients; • training (e.g. food handling); • language improvement leading to referral for regular business services; • documenting processes, plans, preparation, promotion and programming; • collecting data and feedback; and • creating a reproducible model that can be replicated in other service provider organizations. | NS | |||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | Immigrants Working Centre (Hamilton) | Fast Track to Work (formerly WorkLINC Plus Pilot) | The WorkLINC Plus employment priority Pilot Project will test and evaluate the integration of key elements of the established short-term WorkLINC program model into regular-stream LINC classes to determine whether these elements can be applied in an open-enrollment class with students of mixed occupational backgrounds. WorkLINC elements that will be integrated are: 1) English language training contextualized for the workplace; 2) individualized occupation/industry-specific content and supplementary modules (including e-learning); 3) employer engagement; and 4) pre-employment support. The combination of elements being tested is designed specifically to meet the needs of newcomers seeking quick labour market entry and, newcomers facing barriers related to official language proficiency and/or low levels of formal education. This project targets newcomers. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Indus Community Services | INTERSECTIONS - Newcomer Support Program for LGBTQ Immigrants and Refugees | Through this agreement, the Recipient will develop and locally test a support program targeted at LGBTQ newcomers, pertaining to the Service Delivery Improvement priority of Newcomer well-being and programming to support vulnerable clients. The program will include a drop-in centre for LGBTQ newcomers, peer-to-peer training and ongoing community presentations to increase awareness. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Indus Community Services | Sewing for Entrepreneurial Women (SEW) | Through this agreement, the Recipient will develop and locally test a training program for newcomer women with low to intermediate language skills in Mississauga, oriented to entrepreneurship or employment in sewing and alterations. This pertains to the Service Delivery Improvement priorities of Language acquisition, Employment, and Newcomer well-being and programming to support vulnerable clients. The program will include an in-class training component lasting 12 weeks followed by an unpaid practicum with partner organizations lasting 3 weeks; it will combine skills enhancement, occupation specific language training, understanding of small business management and financial literacy. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Institute for Work & Health | The role of employers and settlement agencies in safe employment integration | This research project aims to understand the role employers play in the safe labor market integration of newcomers to Canada; and how the settlement sector and employers can work together to promote safe employment. To achieve these objectives, the Recipient will conduct in-depth interviews with employers, settlement sector representatives and key informants from associations representing the interests and concerns of employers. Partners involved in this research project include five large settlement and employment agencies as well a community organization that has an interest in the role employers can play to help newcomers safely and successfully integrate into employment. This project aims to achieve: 1. A more nuanced understanding of the resource needs of employers related to the preparation of newcomers for employment, barriers to accessing resources and gaps in knowledge; 2. Information about the appropriateness and timing of existing resources from the perspective of employers; 3. Facilitation of links between employers and settlement sector providers to help newcomers secure and maintain safe, high quality employment. The completion of this study will benefit employers, settlement organizations who work with employers, newcomers, and policy makers concerned with economic integration. It will also foster connections with newcomers and encourage the participation of immigrants in Canadian society and economy. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Janice de Jong | Food integration among refugees: barriers, opportunities, and solutions | Food is an important part of culture and well being for all members of society. Finding themselves in an unfamiliar environment, refugees to Canada face unique challenges with respect to food: ingredients may be unfamiliar, shopping habits in Canada may be dramatically different from their native land, foods that are familiar may be prohibitively expensive and there is a lack of resources for newcomers to adjust to the foodways of their new home. In order to address these potential barriers to integration and food security, this research and analysis project aims to understand the challenges that refugees face when adapting their foodways (food integration) over the first year of resettlement, and to develop new opportunities for service improvement. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | JIAS (Jewish Immigrant Aid Services) Toronto | Community engagement: Supporting the social and economic integration of newcomers through a social network of volunteers | Under the Service Delivery Improvement (SDI) initiative, this project with JIAS (Jewish Immigrant Aid Services) Toronto focuses on the priority of Harnessing Volunteers and Supporting Capacity Building in the Settlement Sector. This priority will be achieved through their Indirect service, newcomer-targeted project entitled, “Community engagement: Supporting the social and economic integration of newcomers through a social network of volunteers.” | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | JobStart | Collaboration Catalysts Partnership | The project will engage volunteers (Catalysts) to be actively involved in the settlement-sector supporting the work of service providers and to improve service efficiency & effectiveness for newcomers, particularly vulnerable newcomers with low education/language skills, no/limited knowledge about settlement/other community services available to them. The project will involve 10–15 volunteers from a focus group to be members of Collaboration Catalysts Partnership (CCP). CCP members will receive training focusing on education and capacity building, and will then develop an outreach strategy to reach other vulnerable clients. Outcomes will be evaluated, test models will be modified, and the final product will be shared. The project will address the SDI priority of harnessing volunteers. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | Kids Help Phone | Facilitating Access to Well-Being and Mental Health Supports for Newcomer Youth in Canada | Under the Service Delivery Improvement (SDI) initiative, this project with Kids Help Phone will address the priority of Newcomer Youth Well-being and Mental Health. This priority will be achieved through the project titled, "Facilitating Access to Well-Being and Mental Health Supports for Newcomer Youth in Canada." This project will provide culturally responsive, free 24/7/365 immediate mental health services for young newcomers. It will build the capacity of Kids Help Phone's existing 24/7 professional counseling model to meet the unique needs of newcomer youth in Canada. Young newcomers will benefit from better awareness of the supports available to them, increased access to more effective mental health support, and eventually, be better able to integrate into Canadian society. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | Kingston Community Health Centres | Enhancing the mental health and wellbeing of refugee children and their families in smaller sized Canadian cities though innovative play and art therapy program interventions | Kingston Community Health Centres pilot project will search delivery improvements in research, develop, implementation and evaluate non-traditional settlement programming. The recipient will be providing innovative play and art based therapy to enhance the mental health and well-being of highly complex and vulnerable refugee children aged 7-12 and their families. Kingston Community Heath Centres will work with a multitude of project partners such as mental health providers, education, settlement services, art organizations, academics and the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to create a system of knowledge transfer and evaluation strategy. The project beneficiaries are immigrant children and their families, settlement, health and social service providers in Kingston and across Canada. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | Kingston Employment and Youth Services | Newcomers Empowering Business | The Newcomer Empowering Business pilot project will experiment a new way to engage employers and newcomers in the settlement process in order to address newcomer unemployment. The Recipient will develop and implement a reverse mentoring program where newcomer job seekers and internationally trained professionals will be matched as mentors to Canadian employers as mentees. The mentors will help improve the diversity and inclusion practices of Canadian employers and assist local employers in understanding the benefit of hiring newcomer employees. The mentees will assist the newcomers in accessing labour market opportunities. The pilot project will also include access to essential workplace information as well as general settlement information and support. The pilot project will be tested and validated to identify and highlight best practices for reproduction and scaling to other communities across Canada facing similar challenges. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
45 | La Cité collégiale | Continuum d’Intégration Réussie de l’Immigrant(e) Francophone (CIRIF) | The CIRIF pilot project at La Cité will target Francophone newcomers. The project will provide a comprehensive research and analysis of the experience of Francophone immigrants throughout the various stages of their immigration journey: • upon arrival in Ottawa • during the first meeting with IRCC and the welcoming organization • their direction to community organizations that can help them integrate (schools, daycare, health care, justice, social services) • their participation in language and vocational training • the occupations they practice or wish to practice • their family life and their commitment to solidarity, citizenship and culture. This project focuses on the perspective and active participation of Francophone immigrants in the analysis of their needs. It will help mobilize the community and all the Francophone and Anglophone partners involved in the settlement and integration of Francophone immigrants around the analytical framework of the project and its objectives. All of these steps will be the subject of research, interviews, surveys and analyses, with a view to obtaining concrete results, not only regarding the obstacles encountered by Francophone newcomers, but also to better understand their needs. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | Learning Enrichment Foundation | Exploring Pay-for Performance Language Training Models for Newcomers to Canada | This project will develop knowledge around innovative service delivery models focused on improving newcomers’ language outcomes, designing, delivering & testing a Pay-for-Performance (PFP) language training model & evaluating its impact on newcomers’ attainment of language outcomes and their overall settlement experience. The PFP prototype model will focus on developing individual learning plans that take into consideration newcomers’ varied abilities to learn, personal experiences & goals. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | Lift Philanthropy Partners Society | Better Beginnings, Bigger Impact | LIFT will work with ten innovative social purpose organizations or SPOs (e.g. not-for-profits, charities or social enterprises, service providers), that provide results driven services that help newcomers “overcome barriers specific to the newcomer experience”, integrate newcomers and support citizens to build a cohesive and diverse society. | BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | MaRS Discovery District | IRCC Employment and Language Pay-for-Performance Rate Card | Presently, creating a single Pay for Performance (PFP) model takes significant time; often 1-2 years just in the design phase. Through consultation with IRCC, service providers, academics and other sector expertise, MaRS will produce and socialize an IRCC Language and Employment Pay-for-Performance Rate Card. A PFP Rate Card will shorten development timelines by standardizing processes in designing and evaluating PFP models. The rate card approach has the potential to reach meaningfully larger target population sizes as multiple PFP models concurrently strive for the same, standardized set of pre-specified target outcomes. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | Mothers Matter Centre (Formerly HIPPY (Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters) Canada | Reviving Hope and Home and High Risk Refugee Mothers | Mothers Matter Centre and ISS of BC will test the feasibility of a social innovation to ensure the wellbeing, dignity, and social connections of high-risk vulnerable GAR mothers. The current HIPPY program will be adapted to provide diverse, integrated settlement supports to ensure a holistic, seamless assistance from arrival to settlement. Outcomes: GAR mothers participate in social networks, children’s schools, civic society and make informed decisions about their lives; Home Visitors (HVs) are employed in the Canadian labour market and trained to transition to higher education. Beneficiaries: High-risk, displaced GAR mothers with low literacy and health conditions including PTSD; Past program participants, who experience employment barriers will be trained as HVs; SPO with national standards and program structure to meet the needs of vulnerable GARs. Partners: ISSofBC, SFU, TVO, First Book and The Rumie Institute Activities: Modification of the HIPPY curriculum; a continuum of settlement, parenting, and early literacy supports, e.g. Bond to Literacy, HIPPY Summer, Welcome to Canada and Get Ready for School programs. Central to this proposal is a national peer HV, blended, train-the-trainer model; a Settlement worker to ensure individualized strategies to families, a rigorous performance management, formative & summative evaluation and a research project to investigate and evaluate outcomes of three HIPPY Germany program innovations for refugees and HVs. | BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Multicultural Association of Greater Moncton Area, Inc. | Volunteer Capacity Building through Training | This project involves the needs analysis, design and implementation of a range of training curricula aimed to coach volunteers specializing in settlement. This project targets newcomers and will be used for harnessing volunteers. MAGMA will use the New Brunswick Multicultural Council (NBMC) as an umbrella organization to partner with the various Immigration Service Agencies (ISA) members to determine existing best practices and gaps in training, and to facilitate the post-project sharing of materials and experiences with a wide range of member organizations. | NB | |||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | New Directions Vocational Testing and Counselling Services Ltd. | New Directions in LINC - An Open Learning Centre for Language & The Workplace | New Directions will test non-traditional formats for delivery of language training through an Open Learning Center (OLC) geared towards language acquisition for newcomers (men, women, youths, refugees). The OLC will have extended open hours to increase clients’ access to language training. The OLC will meet PBLA standards to help clients reach their learning goals through various modes of delivery such as: - Multiple workstations that are LINC facilitator led to deliver language training that are task based in response to each learner’s needs. - Ongoing focus groups that consists of a group of clients brought together by a facilitator with the objective of focusing on the needs of clients and stakeholders. These groups will focus on themes such as refugees, entrepreneurship, and specific employment group identified per clients’ needs. | BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | North Shore Multicultural Society | Inclusive Inquiry: Open Spaces Project | The project will design, test and refine five types of experimental activities aimed at improving newcomer well-being by bringing immigrant newcomers together with long term residents and indigenous peoples in non-traditional ways and venues to discuss themes of immigration, integration, diversity and belonging. | BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | North York Community House | Grounded Space for Newcomers | The project is designed to embed user-centered design and innovation methodologies with help from social design firm, InWithForward (hereinafter referred to as the "Consultant"), and join their Grounded Space Collective. Grounded Space is a collection of social service agencies in Canada committed to making evidence and experimentation a core function of their organizations. North York Community House (NYCH) will form a team of embedded researchers and cultural curators - staff within NYCH coached to do ethnographic field work with end users, visualize trends, prototype new practice models, and develop new kinds of evaluation metrics and backend data systems for project execution. The project will address SDI priority of research and analysis. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | OCASI - Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants | Allies in Refugee Integration: New Tools for Settlement-Sponsorship Teamwork | The Settlement-Sponsorship Teamwork research and analysis project aims to identify, develop and test innovative tools that strengthen collaboration between settlement service providers (SSPs) and refugee sponsorship groups (RSGs) in Ontario, ultimately improving settlement outcomes of privately sponsored refugees (PSRs). The principal partner in this project is Refugee 613. Other confirmed partners include Refugee Sponsorship Training Program (RSTP), OCISO, CultureLink, WoodGreen, United Church of Canada and Anglican Diocese of Ottawa. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | OCASI - Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants | Mental Health promotion in Immigrant, Refugee Serving Organizations | The Mental Health Promotion project's overall goal is to build the capacity of newcomer and refugee services to promote mental health, newcomer wellbeing, and respond to mental health issues. The project aims to strengthen collaboration between newcomer and refugee serving organizations, primary health, and mental health sectors through the development of a service model for mental health promotion. Project partners are primarily OCASI member organizations providing services: • Settlement Sector: Newcomer Centre of Peel, Rexdale Women's Centre, and Toronto South Local Immigration Partnership • Primary Health Care Sector: Access Alliance Multicultural Community Health Centre, Crossroads Refugee Clinic, Queen West Community Health Centre, and Women's Health in Women's Hands • Mental Health Sector: Canadian Mental Health Association, Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture, COSTI Immigrant Services, and Hong Fook Mental Health Association. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Options Community Services Society | Connecting Newcomer Seniors and Newcomers with Disabilities Project: Social Innovation Lab | Options Community Services Society (OCS) will partner with social design and research firm InWithForward (IWF) to develop innovative service models to better engage hard-to-reach newcomers, improve service effectiveness/outcomes, enhance access to specialized services and shift conditions for sustained change. This project will address SDI priority of research and analysis and will benefit newcomer seniors and newcomers with disabilities. | BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Ottawa Chinese Community Service Centre | Canada Connects | Through the Syrian Host Initiative, both the host community (Canada), and newcomers gain awareness of each other, communicate and develop mutual understanding, needs, goals and teamwork. This initiative for Syrian refugees in addition to the existing programs adds to the deliverance of a long-standing history of excellence in assisting newcomers. These newcomers were raised in a different environment, culture, family dynamics and social system. They need support to resettle, overcome possible culture shock, and integrate to their new home. OCCSC will be the organization that will provide the support they need. The benefits will extend to all family members. Through this three year program, Syrian women, men, boys and girls will greatly benefit. - Women will be empowered through mentoring and financial literacy - Youth will be prepared for the challenges of the future through dynamic activities that may encourage them to pursue professional careers in science and technology - Men will acquire sales skills and will be prepared to work Syrian newcomers will have a mentor guide who will help them enhance their self-confidence. They will create their own social enterprises, which will generate employment and financial independence, to finally be fully integrated into Canadian society. We will have the support of five different organizations that will partner with us and will help us give continuity to all the efforts made in the last year. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization (OCISO) | Digital Messaging for Settlement and Integration | Refugee 613 is a community project co-founded and under the management of OCISO (Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization). Run by a coalition of citizens, settlement agencies, sponsorship groups and community partners working to provide successful integration for refugees. This project will build on the results of a previous study (Digital Outreach Initiative - DOI) to connect refugees with each other, with Settlement and other services over the free messaging app, WhatsApp. This project will be primarily led by Refugee613 who will be conducting a national environmental scan within the first 6 months to review literature, promising models and user practice of digital messaging by newcomers and the settlement sector. Targeting 5 pilot sites across Canada (with the assistance of a French and an Arabic Facilitator at 2 Ottawa sites) each distinct in geography, audiences and needs, Refugee613 will provide equipment and appropriate technology for each site to help create a digital group aimed at delivering settlement information services through a digital messaging platform. After 1 year activity, on outcome evaluation and analysis will be conducted measuring the positive/negative effects of connecting newcomers with delivering organizations using digital technology. Based on data captured, an extensive national impact report will be put together to be reviewed during a 2-day Ottawa-based workshop involving government stakeholders and the settlement sector. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization (OCISO) | RAISE - EmployMENTOR – Workplace Retention & Language Training | This SDI funded initiative aims to research and develop an innovative Workplace Language Training Model designed for the Canadian workplace with the aim of the model being further examined and up-scaled. A 4 Pillar model will be used for this project (Pillar 1-3 currently funded by IRRC) - therefore not included in this project portion. Pillar 4 – Skills Development (Specifically through Workplace Language Training): SDI Project While the focus of the project is indirect service delivery; client services (Pillar 1-3 currently funded by IRRC) will be delivered to facilitate and support the testing of the model. Clients matched with a Volunteer Workplace Language Trainer (VWLT) will participate in the testing of the proposed 10-module workplace language curriculum. In addition, Ascentify's innovative cloud based workforce development and language platform (e-Suite) will be populated with developed modules and tested with clients to assess its effectiveness. VWLT’s and users will be surveyed and observed during training sessions to review the suitability and effectiveness of the proposed model. The consortium of partners, and Workplace Language Trainers (WLT) liaise at critical stages of the project applying a developmental evaluative approach to ensure a continuous development loop throughout the experimentation and development of the project. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
60 | Pacific Immigrant Resources Society | Community English Classes for Refugee Women and Trauma Training | This Service Delivery Improvements (SDI) funded project will support the delivery of settlement services under the Indirect Services theme. Pacific Immigrant Resources Society (PIRS) will provide Informal language classes to refugee women in the Metro Vancouver area. PIRS will also focus on curriculum development and providing training to settlement service providers and stakeholders on trauma-informed service delivery. | BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
61 | Pacific Immigrant Resources Society | Social Enterprise - Mobile Childcare (formerly .. Solve a Problem Like Maria) | The research and analysis priority project is testing and developing an innovative childcare service delivery model in partnership with identified stakeholders to assess its effectiveness of providing immigrant women with meaningful employment that will assist service provider organizations with short-term quality childcare services. The project will commence with a research component that will provide contextual data to inform the design process of the project followed by the implementation phase. Through the creation of the new service delivery model, immigrant women will receive informal language training, early childhood education certification through an identified partner; and be offered a career path to employment within the new service delivery model. | BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
62 | Pacific Immigrant Resources Society | LEARNING JOURNEYS: IMPROVING THE PATHWAYS TO LEADERSHIP FOR IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE WOMEN | The recipient will conduct a research and analysis pilot project to explore and improve current settlement programs for immigrant women. This SDI multi-stage research project will include ethnographic research, learning labs to design and test new or adapted prototypes for service delivery and the launch of new pilot model. The project will bring together immigrant women and service delivery providers throughout the various components of the Learning Journeys project. By participating in the research and learning processes, immigrant women will directly benefit by contributing to a better understanding of the needs, strengths, challenges and goals of immigrant women and how they are best supported. Partner organizations will contribute to the research process by providing additional context as it relates to existing service models as well as share their knowledge and expertise with the intent to target better outcomes for immigrant women. | BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Pathways to Prosperity Partnership hosted at the University of Western Ontario | Developing an Evidence Base and Sharing Settlement and Integration Practices that Work | The purpose of the project is to design, implement, and evaluate a process in which promising practices in settlement and integration with an empirical basis for their effectiveness are identified, and descriptions of these practices – including analysis of their key features – are shared widely through videos and accompanying briefs posted online. The project will result in the creation of 25 videos targeting a range of service areas and client groups. The areas of practice will, among others, include practices that focus on language acquisition; employment supports; practices targeted at vulnerable populations, including youth, seniors, women, LGBTQ+, and refugees; and practices that utilize technology to provide services remotely. The videos and briefs will be disseminated through the Pathways to Prosperity website, eBulletin, and YouTube, and through the networks of CISSA-ACSEI, as co-lead of the Pathways to Prosperity Partnership, and OCASI, which is developing a settlement worker community of practice and will partner on sharing project resources. Through the process of identifying and analyzing promising practices and sharing their key features widely, the project supports the IRCC priority of harnessing volunteers and supporting capacity building in the settlement sector. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
64 | PeaceGeeks Society | Services Advisor Pathways: Mentor Match | The project Services Advisor Pathways: Mentor Match will develop, test and implement innovative user-centric apps and tools, aiming to streamline the service delivery process both for the settlement community and newcomers. | BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
65 | PeaceGeeks Society | Creating the Building Blocks Towards Settlement 2.0 Vision & Strategy | The project Settlement 2.0 will develop a vision and action plan for exploring how technology and innovation can best facilitate settlement outcomes for supporting newcomers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
66 | Pluri-elles (Manitoba) inc. | Grand-Parent d'adoption - une priorité pour les familles immigrantes | The Pluri-elles project, entitled “Grand-Parent d'adoption-une priorité pour les familles immigrantes” [grandparenting – a priority for immigrant families], aims to support the priority of newcomer well-being and the programs in place to support vulnerable clients. The goal is to match newcomers with seniors by developing a new approach to settlement service delivery, an innovative model, targeting the needs of immigrants (economic and refugees) and promoting successful social integration. | MB | |||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | Reception House Waterloo Region | Working Together | This employment priority project is testing and evaluating a model of engaging new partners in developing innovative approaches that enable government-assisted refugees (GARS) to successfully obtain and retain employment. Through collaboration with the employer, tailor-made vocational and language skills training, adapted to both workplace requirements and client needs, along with employment related settlement supports in the workplace will be provided in a customized approach to improve employment outcomes for GARS. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
68 | Refugee Career Jumpstart Project | Welcome Talent Canada | Refugee Career Jumpstart Project (RCJP), is an indirect project that addresses the Service Delivery Improvement (SDI) priority for employment. This project in partnership with LinkedIn, will test a collaborative model that engages employers and service providers to support the economic integration of refugees. The program will accomplish this objective by providing refugee job-seekers, professionals, and entrepreneurs in Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary with the tools and resources they need to help them jumpstart their professional careers in Canada and find meaningful employment or start their own business. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
69 | Réseau de développement économique et d'employabilité (RDÉE) Canada | Immigration francophone-Canada - Le Passeport entrepreneurial | This project aims to develop an interactive online entrepreneurship tool that will allow Francophone newcomers to develop their knowledge and understanding of Canada’s entrepreneurial culture by providing them with support and guidance tailored to their needs. In partnership with experts and in collaboration with its 12 members, RDÉE Canada will develop an entrepreneurship guide for Francophone immigrants outside Quebec. The content of the guide will be tailored to the socio economic-reality of Canada’s Francophone minorities in the various provinces and territories. The guide will be accompanied by a media publication, developed in collaboration with the Coalition ontarienne de formation des adultes (COFA). This media kit—a virtual and interactive tool—will consist of a summary of essential entrepreneurial knowledge and a workbook. This will allow clients to validate their entrepreneurial knowledge and develop their business projects. RDÉE Canada will promote the use of the tools in a context of coaching for clients from immigrant Francophone communities; this could include such things as the diagnosis of entrepreneurial skills (tools allowing the development of individual coaching plans for immigrant entrepreneurs). | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
70 | Ryerson University | Exploring the Entrepreneurial Activities of Refugee Newcomers in the Greater Toronto Area | The goals of this research project are to examine the level of entrepreneurial activity among refugees, particularly women refugees in the Greater Toronto Area and to examine the regulatory framework governing entrepreneurship in Ontario in terms of incentives and impediments to refugees’ entrepreneurship due to the high levels of refugee newcomer arrivals to Ontario, and some preliminary evidence around their entrepreneurial activities. Data collection will involve 20 semi-structured interviews with refugee entrepreneurs across five municipalities of the GTA with the highest levels of newcomer refugee arrivals, a structured survey of 350 participants to better understand the different factors promoting or preventing entrepreneurship among refugees, including women and a review of the existing regulatory framework for small businesses through interviews with 25 members of the local Business Improvement Associations. The information gathered will be used to develop and test out a web-based resource for refugees on establishing and scaling-up a business. The resource kit will be hosted by Magnet, a not-for-profit, data driven, social innovation founded by Ryerson University, in partnership with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce. Feedback on the usefulness of the resource kit will be solicited through community forums with refugee entrepreneurs and appropriate modifications will be made. The Recipient will partner with The Settlement and Family Support Services of Scarborough. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
71 | Ryerson University | Workforce Innovation and Inclusion Project (WIIP) | Talent shortages affect economic growth in Canada. Employers lament skills gaps and stress the need for entrepreneurship and innovation. Yet, for newcomers, barriers remain despite many programs and initiatives. The comparison of settlement services across jurisdictions is limited; minimal attention is paid to scaling best practices; and, adoption of new technologies for sectoral innovation is tenuous. The Workforce Innovation and Inclusion Project (WIIP) will enhance settlement services delivery and provision across sectors and nationally. It will build a partner network and sustainable platform for evaluating, testing, sharing, scaling and replicating innovative approaches to the economic integration of immigrants and refugees. It will: 1) Identify, assess and innovate tools to bridge skills gaps and advance entrepreneurial opportunities through user and evidenced-based policies and practices; 2) Enhance public-private partnerships that harness new processes and technologies to build the capacity needed to create opportunities for economic integration; 3) Apply impact evaluation frameworks, such as social return on investment, to drive change in settlement services; 4) Test, replicate and scale effective approaches with user-centered design and social innovation models; 5) Reduce siloing and fragmentation and support newcomer economic integration by creating a national platform to share, evaluate, replicate and scale innovative employment and entrepreneurship programming. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | Ryerson University | Immigrant Futures: a welcoming economies approach to immigrant attraction and retention in small, medium and regional communities in Canada | Canada’s strategy to attract immigrants for economic purposes responds to well-established data that show immigration is a positive contributor to economic growth. Increasing the share of immigrants who settle outside major cities can tackle population decline and boost regional development; achieve more equitable distribution of social and economic capital; and reduce pressure on Canada’s largest cities where most immigrants settle. Efforts to encourage immigrants to settle in smaller centres have been met with limited success. Research suggests that focusing solely on newcomer-friendly services and attitudes, without promoting economic development may be an ineffective strategy (Valade 2016). Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC) findings confirm that long-term retention depends upon regional economic development and positive labour market experiences. Can an immigrant-led multisector strategy for regional economic growth reinvigorate existing settlement services and reverse these trends? This project will develop and pilot a welcoming economies community facilitation model in Ontario and Atlantic Canada to help local stakeholders (municipalities, employers, businesses, colleges/universities, immigrant serving agencies, etc.) explore drivers of immigrant attraction and retention; test existing service models (e.g. LIPs) in new economic context; and co-plan new strategies for regional growth and prosperity. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | Ryerson University | ALiGN Employment and Integration Support Network | Ryerson University’s ALiGN Employment and Integration Support Network is a pilot project that addresses the Service Delivery Improvement (SDI) priority for employment that supports the economic integration of vulnerable newcomers and refugees with limited educational attainment and/or language skills. It specifically scales up a technology supported employment model called ALiGN, developed by Magnet at Ryerson University, the Ontario Tourism Education Corporation (OTEC), WhoPlusYou, and Lumina Learning. This model integrates an online psychometric tool that can more objectively assess job seekers’ attitudes and behaviours that produces talent-to-role fit correlations with in-demand job roles in Canada. Ryerson is committed to providing the ALiGN project for 10 locations with service provider organizations in Ontario, British Columbia, and New Brunswick. Service providers can use ALiGN to assess newcomers’ skills, refer clients to appropriate pre-employment training opportunities and/or match clients with in-demand job opportunities advertised by the industry partners on the ALiGN and Magnet network. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
74 | Saskatchewan History & Folklore Society | Living in Saskatchewan: Stories of our Experiences | Saskatchewan History & Folklore Society (SHFS) is a provincial organization that delivers programs and activities to enable, inspire and celebrate the investigation and sharing of historical and folkloric knowledge in Saskatchewan's diverse communities. SHFS will deliver the “Living in Saskatchewan” workshop for youth 13-21 who are permanent residents of Canada. This program will be based in Saskatoon in 2018-2020 and in Prince Albert in 2020-2021. Through shared stories, the project will facilitate intercultural bridging amongst program participants and the broader community. Activities will include learning oral history techniques and ethics which will assist youth to build the skills necessary to document stories from their communities and share them through an artistic medium such as writing, film, art, or theatre. This Service Delivery Improvement project relates to the youth supports priority. | SK | |||||||||||||||||||||||
75 | Saskatoon Industry Education Council Inc. | Skill Development for Refugee Youth: CLB Level 1,2, 3 | Saskatoon Industry Education Council Inc. (SIEC) is a not-for-profit organization responsible for bridging the gap between Saskatchewan's school system and employers. SIEC will work in partnership with the Saskatoon Public School Division, Greater Catholic School Division and the City of Saskatoon to develop a specialized curriculum for youth ages 17-21 with Canadian Language Benchmark levels of 1-3. This full-time program will run from September - June and support a wrap-around model to ensure increased youth supports for this highly vulnerable population. Priority will be given to government assisted and private sponsored refugees. Activities will include classroom based learning including employment related vocabulary, literacy and numeracy development, provincially recognized credit attainment, industry recognized certification, experiential learning leading to skill development through site visits, job shadowing, and career and work education programming, and driver training. Both students and community stakeholders will benefit from this project. This Service Delivery Improvement project relates to the youth supports priority. The project is focused on services for youth and refugees. | SK | |||||||||||||||||||||||
76 | Sherbourne Health Centre Corporation | The User Centred – Settlement & Health Integration Project (UC – SHIP) | The UC - SHIP project, as part of the Service Delivery Improvement (SDI), will develop a user-centered model for services to newcomer clients delivered at the interface between the settlement and the health sectors. Activities will include consultation with multiple stakeholders to inform the service model being developed, the training of newcomer ambassadors who will deliver health and settlement workshops, a joint health and settlement intake, information and orientation settlement services, mental health group support mechanisms, as well as support services including settlement crisis and trauma counseling. The services will typically be provided alongside non-IRCC funded health services. The service delivery will include experimentation to refine and optimize the user-centred model being developed in order to enhance newcomer well-being. The service delivery will also include a mobile service component, which will be offered in multiple locations in the neighborhood. Such locations may be shelters, schools and the community center, or other locations selected by taking into account user input, service gaps and availability in the community and the number of eligible clients accessing the different sites. The final phase of the project will include dissemination of the service model. This project will have a specific focus on visible minority newcomers, including youth, refugee and LGBTQ+ newcomers. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
77 | Skills for Change of Metro Toronto | Newcomer Entrepreneurship Hub | Under the Service Delivery Improvement (SDI) initiative, the employment priority project is developing, testing and evaluating the Newcomer Entrepreneurship Hub model to assess its effectiveness in assisting newcomers to achieve a common goal of becoming an entrepreneur. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
78 | Société de recherche sociale appliquée | Connecting multi-barriered newcomers to the Canadian Labour Market | This project will design, deliver, and evaluate the impact of a comprehensive package of employment services for refugees and other multi-barriered newcomers. The program model will augment traditional language training by offering a holistic suite of employment priority services including Essential Skill upgrading, technical training, work placement, and job retention support. A randomized control trial design will be used to evaluate program impacts, by comparing the outcomes of those who are randomly assigned to receive the new suite of services with a control group who will continue receiving existing services. Results will have important implications for the effective design and delivery of programs for the increasing numbers of newcomers who have trouble transitioning from settlement to sustained employment. Career Pathways for Visible Minority Newcomer Women (VMNW): The project aims to carry out a comprehensive design and evaluation of a 3-year pilot to support programming for VMNW to help them improve their economic integration in Canada. This project aligns with the Government priority announced in the 2018 budget. The initial phase of the project will cover the design phase, which will define and detail the scope of the project and the most appropriate approaches and types of programming to be developed and tested. The results will inform the second phase, which is the implementation and evaluation of selected model(s). | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
79 | Société de recherche sociale appliquée | EASIEST – Easier Access to Settlement, Integration, Employment and Skills Training | EASIEST is an innovative research and analysis project that places the newcomer experience at the centre of the design & delivery of settlement services. The project targets newcomers. SRDC will use a Behavioral Insights (BI) approach to understand how & why newcomers access services. These insights will then be used to identify, design & test behavioral strategies to improve services & address gaps. A 4-phase approach of discovery, diagnosis, design & delivery will be used to bring about improvements in services & outcomes for newcomers, especially vulnerable groups. RCTs will be used to establish what does & does not work. Findings from BIAS suggest improvements will be low cost & can be transferred to other settings. EASIEST will incorporate lessons from BIAS & present an opportunity to raise the profile of BI in the settlement sector. 2 Hubs of 8 ISOs will be brought together to work collaboratively on improving the effectiveness & efficiencies of services. A mix of data will be used to creatively address barriers & challenges experienced by newcomers as well as to improve systems & business processes within ISOs. Participating ISOs will increase their capacity to innovate. Another key goal will be to bring together new & cross sector partners including LIPs & to bring about wider systems change. Findings will be used to support continuous improvement & disseminated widely to contribute to the goal of helping newcomers settle successfully in Canada. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | The Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology | The Community Settlement Initiative | The Community Settlement Initiative provides non-settlement sector driven and highly personalized outcomes for newcomers through a place-based, decentralized capacity building program. The program provides opportunities for employers, communities, and SPOs to engage in settlement work using an innovative capacity building model, in concert with the community language initiative. Newcomers benefit as they experience a user-centric program, located in the places they frequent. The model is based on the unique needs of each client, offered by non-settlement partners throughout the region. Newcomers will be served by capable allies who are able to help produce individualized outcomes, and by employers who are invested in retaining and integrating newcomers. The allies will benefit from an enhanced capacity to serve, better reporting outcomes, and improved productivity. An overall commitment to community-wide participation in settlement outcomes is likely. Allies include, LIP of Renfrew & Lanark; non-settlement SPOs (Literacy and Basic Skills, entrepreneurship services, and Employment Ontario); employers hiring immigrants; and community groups. MCI has agreed to fund the delivery of the language component of this holistic program. This alternative service delivery intends to foster improved connections and realized newcomer objectives, community-wide participation in settlement, and, ultimately, allow for the inclusive integration of newcomers. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | The Arab Community Centre of Toronto | Volunteer Capacity Building through Training | The Walima-Arab Kitchen project addresses the Service Delivery Improvement (SDI) priority for newcomer well-being and programming to support vulnerable clients, specifically refugee women with low English language skills, pre-immigration trauma, and no Canadian work experience. The project provides community cooking sessions that will incorporate trauma counseling, informal English language instruction, safe food handling skills, and small business start-up information for refugee women. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
82 | The Board of Governors of Red River College | Capacity Building for Flexible Delivery Model: Using Technology-Mediated, Competency-Based Learning and Teaching | The Recipient will conduct a research and analysis pilot project to build on and adapt existing materials to create an online digital literacy learning course, furthering the e-learning success of lower literacy newcomers in CLB 1-8, promoting the development of digital literacy skills necessary for education, training, and employment. If successful, this project will provide an open-source tool for IRCC funded organizations that provide e-learning language programs. | MB | |||||||||||||||||||||||
83 | The Immigrant Education Society (TIES) (previously Calgary Immigrant Educational Society) | Newcomer Introduction to Classes Online (NICO) | The recipient will conduct a research and analysis pilot project to build on and adapt existing materials to create an online digital literacy learning course, furthering the e-learning success of lower literacy newcomers in CLB 3-8. The success of this project will provide an open-source tool for IRCC funded organizations that provide e-learning language programs. Newcomers will complete the courseware prior to beginning their online language study, improving their digital literacy and ensuring a higher success rate when they begin their intended language program. | AB | |||||||||||||||||||||||
84 | The Immigrant Education Society (TIES) (previously Calgary Immigrant Educational Society) | The Refugee and Newcomers Emotional Wellness (ReNEW) Partnership for Best Practice | Through research and analysis, the ReNEW project will 1) examine the mental health and emotional wellness issues and provisions across multiple front line immigrant serving agencies; 2) develop a best practice model; 3) implement a pilot testing the best practice model; and 4) assess the results of model for final refinement and sharing. The Recipient will work in partnership with a research team from the University of Calgary (U of C). Partner sites for activities related to the collection of data (document review, interview and focus groups, etc.) may include those in Alberta (Calgary and Edmonton), Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Activities related to the pilot project will take place at partner agencies in Calgary. | AB | |||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | The Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia | GAR Settlement, Social Integration and Employment Outcomes in BC: Reflecting on a Decade of Arrivals in order to plan for future populations | The employment priority project is a multilingual, multi-method research project to better understand the settlement, social integration and labour market outcomes of Government-Assisted Refugees (GARs), ages 14 years and older (age at arrival), who arrived in BC from January 2007 to December 2016. The project will be guided by a multi-stakeholder Advisory Committee, comprised from government, service providers, stakeholders, academic researchers and former refugees. | BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
86 | The Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia | Ignite | IGNITE is an entrepreneurship program that prepares and enables refugees and immigrants with viable business ideas to launch their businesses in BC. The aim of this employment priority project is to support newcomers in launching a new business or to support newcomers who may have an existing business and are struggling, and will be accomplished by training and knowledge transfer with SSI to provide services needed to deliver expected results. The program has three phases: Phase 1: Design and Research (3 months); Phase 2: Capacity Building and Knowledge Transfer (3 months) and Phase 3: EMPOWER (21 months). | BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
87 | The Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia | Spark | SPARK is a business idea incubation program for refugees and immigrants with a drive to self-employment, but ideas that are underdeveloped for a Canadian context. The aim of this employment priority project is to help newcomers determine if self-employment is right for them and to also help newcomers refine a loosely- formed business idea/concept. This will be accomplished through providing services and information that help move the client along the self-employment continuum. The program is cohort based, each cohort runs for approximately four months and consists of three phases: Phase 1: Research, Phase 2: Refine and Phase 3: Realize. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
88 | The Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia | Digital Literacy Training for LINC Clients | Digital Literacy Training for LINC Clients addresses the SDI priority of language acquisition. It is a one year project, which proposes to coordinate settlement English language with digital literacy training (DLT). Through CLB (Canadian Language Benchmarks) aligned digital literacy curriculum modules and resources that are customizable and scalable, clients are provided with core digital skills to participate more fully in LINC (Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada) and gain digital skills to use technology in their daily lives. The target clients will be LINC students as well as LINC providers and other settlement organizations that deliver some form of IRCC-funded settlement language training in BC. | BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation | Newcomers Collective Impact | The Newcomers Collective Impact (Newcomers CI) program will help support and strengthen local collaboration and address challenges to collaboration to foster newcomer integration and improve outcomes for newcomers. This program will support IRCC's goal of using multisectoral partnerships as a social innovation tool for settlement services. The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, through its Innoweave initiative, applies the Collective Impact framework as a social innovation tool to improve population-level outcomes on key community priorities. The Innoweave process uses engagement sessions, workshops, coaching and funding as key activities to achieve its goals. This program will enable settlement agencies to: - Form meaningful multisectoral partnerships - Develop a common vision for improving community outcomes - Define a shared approach to achieving those outcomes - Articulate an action plan involving key partners - Identify key measurements to track progress on outcomes over time | QC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
90 | TNO-The Neighbourhood Organization | Connecting tDot | The Neighbourhood Organization Connecting tDot Youth Support Priority pilot project assists newcomer youth to access careers in the construction trades by providing work-related language training, sector-specific practical training, and job placement support through an employment portal hosted by a provincially funded partner. This project also provides wrap-around supports such as transportation and mental health support to ensure youth can fully achieve their potential. Training sessions cover the following topics: Life skills training, construction related Math and English classes, diversity resiliency training, soft skills mentorship, basic safety training, exposure tours to Designated Training Centres through Construction Connections, connections to a pipeline of construction Materials Information System (WHMIS), and connections to employment. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
91 | Université de Saint-Boniface | L'établissement et l'intégration des nouveaux arrivants au Manitoba : l'amélioration de la presentation des services en matière de formation linguistique, d'emploi et de bien-être | The Recipient will conduct research on settlement services in Manitoba with the goal of improving services for newcomers. The project will improve the understanding of newcomers’ needs and will provide a tool to ensure that needs and services are better matched. Improving services in minority settings provides a foundation for improving services on a broader scale. Since Francophone minorities have fewer resources, the ones they have must be high-quality. Partners are: the Continuing Education Division of the University of St. Boniface, Accueil Francophone, Immigration Partnership Winnipeg (IPW), the Réseau d'immigration francophone (RIF) and the Economic Development Council for Manitoba Bilingual Municipalities (CDEM). They provide recipients with services and meet with them. | MB | |||||||||||||||||||||||
92 | Vancouver Community College | Make it! Social entrepreneurship for immigrant and refugee women | The Make It!: Social Entrepreneurship for Immigrant and Refugee Women project will build partnerships between Public Post-Secondary Institutions (PPSIs), and Immigrant Serving Organizations (ISOs), while using a program-based approach combining maker spaces (specialized expertise, facilities, and equipment) and a basic social entrepreneurship model to support immigrant and refugee women overcome barriers to employment. This project will address significant barriers by providing: Informal English language and Essential Skills training, and Canadian work experience in a social enterprise model. | BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
93 | Vancouver Community College | Mobile learning to support LINC students | The Mobile Learning (learning) to Support LINC Students project is testing Cell-Ed's cell-phone based CLB-aligned English language training platform to facilitate language acquisition for newcomers who are on a LINC waitlist or unable to attend LINC classes on a full time basis. A blended approach using mobile learning with face-to-face workshops and individualized coaching will be utilized to deliver language training at CLB levels 1 to 8. | BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
94 | West Central Women's Resource Centre | Healing Together: Fostering Safe, Strong Families | The Healing Together: Fostering Safe, Strong Families project will create a new program model that will enhance newcomer well-being with an emphasis on preventing and healing from intimate partner violence (IPV) and experiences of post conflict gender based violence. The project will create partnerships with identified stakeholders, including ethno-cultural communities and faith groups to assist in curriculum development and to generate community engagement. The program is designed to offer a holistic approach to meet the unique needs of the vulnerable clients and communities, including women, refugees and newcomer families. Newcomer women will be engaged at every stage of the project development in order to ensure a client-centered approach. | MB | |||||||||||||||||||||||
95 | WoodGreen Community Services | Settlement Integration and the Path to Well-being | Under the Service Delivery Improvement (SDI) initiative, Settlement Integration and the Path to Well-being with WoodGreen Community Services focuses on the priority of newcomer well-being and programming to support vulnerable clients. Specifically, this project aims to connect newcomers to a range of community services to improve their well-being by using human-centred design methodologies and community collaborations to develop an innovative community service coordination model (CSCM). Building on the sector’s practice and knowledge through user design research and evaluation, this project contains three phases with the following types of activities: Discovery: Conduct interviews, focus groups, and co-design activities. Ideate and Prototype: Conduct co-design activities, develop low-fidelity prototypes and test with end users. Pilot, Refine and Evaluate: Implement hi-fidelity models and conduct M&E activities. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
96 | World University Service of Canada | Hospitality Industry Welcomes Refugee Employment-linked Sponsorships (HIRES) | The 3-year Pathways to Employment for Refugees (PER) Project aligns with SDI’s priority focus on supporting economic integration of newcomers, in particular refugees. PER will contribute to this priority by supporting the Outcomes of Better partnerships and Better service delivery models. PER will prototype an innovative model that leverages the private sector to provide employment-based pathways for refugee resettlement, and colleges to support pre-departure skills training. This model improves economic integration and reduces resettlement costs; with IRCC’s policy support, it could open up more placements for refugee resettlement. PER will explore various refugee stream models by engaging the private sector as either: an employment-focused Constituent Group for privately sponsored refugees (PSRs) and/or blended visa office-referred refugees (BVOR), and/or as a volunteer network of employment mentors to support government-assisted refugees (GARs) and BVORs. This project will conduct deliver skills training overseas to refugees identified for resettlement to Canada, and will train Canadian private sector partners to act as settlement support. To achieve its outcomes, the project will engage with: 1) private sector partners; 2) Canadian colleges; 3) IRCC; and 4) multilateral organizations. PER will benefit: 40 refugees, women and men, from priority populations; private sector; and IRCC, which can leverage new partners and stakeholders to realize its mission. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
97 | YMCA of Greater Saint John | Evaluating SSELT: Can this language prototype accelerate newcomer employment? (PREVIOUSLY TITLED: SECTOR-SPECIFIC EMPLOYMENT LANGUAGE TRAINING) | This Language Acquisition project will be testing and evaluating Sector-Specific Employment Language Training (SSELT) to determine if this model can accelerate newcomer employment. The primary goal of this project is to determine whether/how the SSELT prototype might accelerate the newcomer's journey to appropriate employment. If it is shown to do so without sacrificing language acquisition, the secondary goal will be to evaluate whether SSELT might be a scalable option for clients in Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) Levels 3 and above. | NB | |||||||||||||||||||||||
98 | YMCA of Greater Vancouver | Self Employment for Newcomers | Under the Service Delivery Improvement's (SDI) employment priority, the Self Employment for Newcomers project will help new immigrants and eligible refugees learn about work in Canada and steps to start a small business. Through a combination of classroom and one-to-one support, the 10-week program will equip participants with the knowledge and tools to become entrepreneurs. This includes assistance with completing each section of their business plan and steps to execute each aspect of their business. | BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
99 | YMCA of Southwestern Ontario | Coordinated Capacity-Focused Settlement Assessment System (CCSAS) | The YMCA of Western Ontario (Windsor-Essex) Service Delivery Improvement (SDI) Pilot Project will establish a Coordinated Capacity-Focused Settlement Assessment System (CCSAS) that will serve to strengthen the Windsor, Ontario region’s existing system of newcomer integration at all levels and for all stakeholders. The CCSAS represents a three-stage circular strategy comprised of 1) Capacity-Focused Newcomer Settlement Assessments and Master Settlement Plans (Strengthened Needs Assessments and Referrals) (Service Delivery + Data Collection); 2) Innovative Research and Analysis and Dissemination of Information; and 3) Innovation through Community Asset Mapping. Anchoring each stage will be a multi-functional tech-based platform (database). Together, the model will provide a local, sustainable solution to foundational research needs (academically viable data) and utilize that to inspire innovation and enhance community engagement and reciprocity. In the process, the project will bring greater coordination to the community’s Newcomer service delivery model, enhance knowledge of the user experience, and test how an existing, and an upgraded version of a tailor-made database, will build the capacity of each of those components. As the YMCA plans, implements and evaluates, project staff will document steps, challenges and successes to produce a roadmap for other Canadian communities to test the same strategies. | ON | |||||||||||||||||||||||
100 | YMCA-YWCA de la region de la capitale national | Trades Talent Link (TTL) | Under the Service Delivery Improvement (SDI) initiative, the Trades Talent Link (TTL) project focuses on the priority of research and analysis to drive innovation and /or understand the user experience. The project will engage employers, newcomers and stakeholders to participate various research activities to help understand needs in the skill trades and identify service gaps. The program will offer skilled trades and apprenticeship education seminars to help newcomers and refugees to better understand the skilled trades apprenticeship, licensing process and foreign qualification recognition in Ontario. The recipient will conduct focus groups on knowledge gaps, barriers and supports required to improve workplace integration. They will host trades exploration events and offer mentorship matching with experienced tradespeople to expand access to trades for newcomers. Partners HIO and OCISO will provide project advisory support, employer seminars and mentorship facilitation for newcomers. The project findings will be shared with stakeholders (employment and settlement agencies), regulators, and policy-makers with the goal of providing recommendations to improve accessibility for newcomers in skilled trades across Ontario. | ON |