Programs and Services

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The Programs and Services Calendar -- complete with all programs/services descriptions, prerequisites and start dates -- can be downloaded here in pdf format.

Not certain which program or service is for you? Select from these areas:

Employment Language Training Computer Training Information and Training Settlement Services

Employment

Career Transitions (CT)
The Career Transitions for International Medical Doctors program assists internationally trained doctors in making a transition into long-term alternative employment in the non-regulated health sector.

Clerical Employment Services (CES)
Are you ready to use your customer service, administrative, retail and clerical accounting skills?

Employment Preparation for Retail Services (EPRS)
EPRS provides you with multiple skills that will prepare you for employment in retail sector.

Employment Resource Centre
Your Fast Track to Employment: providing you with the tools and resources you need to find work

Engineering Your Future (EYF)
Through engineering-specific training modules, employment counseling, mentoring matches, and job development services, the EYF program helps develop an awareness of the employment options open to you.

Job Search Workshop (JSW)
The short-term workshop is designed especially to assist recent immigrants to develop the skills needed to find employment in the shortest possible time.

Mentoring for Change
The Mentoring for Employment Program assists internationally-trained professional newcomers in their search for suitable employment by matching them with mentors with similar professional experience.

Newcomer Professionals at Work (NPW)
Newcomer Professionals at Work offers mentoring, paid internship, and job placement for the unemployed internationally trained immigrants who are looking for a job in their profession.

Teacher Language Upgrading Course
This language upgrading course is for Internationally Educated Teachers (IET) and who want to improve their level of English in order to teach in the Ontario Public School system.

Language Training

Accounting for Women
The ESL/Accounting and Computer Skills for Immigrant Women program is intended for immigrant women who speak English as a Second Language and have little accounting or office experience. If you have an education in accounting from other countries but have never worked in the field, and are changing your career to accounting from other fields, this program is for you.

Board of Education Classes
In these classes, students are taught English using the four language skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Classes are offered at the literacy, beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels.

Enhanced Language Training (ELT) for Engineers
This Enhanced Language Training (ELT) program for Engineers, Engineering Technicians and Technologists is designed to enable internationally trained engineers to increase their communicative proficiency in English from CLB 7 to CLB 9 level. The ELT program will also assist engineers in finding work in their related fields through job development and mentoring support.

Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC)
LINC is a basic to advanced language and settlement program funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Skills for Change offers full time LINC 3, 4, 4-5 (conversation) and 5 daytime classes. We also offer level 6-7 classes in the evenings and Saturdays.

Computer Training

TechSkills
TechSkills specializes in hands-on, instructor-led training in the latest software applications in the areas of Accounting, Microsoft Office applications, IT, Engineering, Project Management, and Quality Assurance.

Information and Training

Canadian Language Benchmarks Assessment
Skills for Change is licensed to administer the Canadian Language Benchmarks Placement Test (CLBPT). The CLBPT is a streamlined assessment instrument that is an adaptable, efficient means to place adult learners in ESL programs.

Certificate in Advanced Technology for Accounting and Finance (ATAF)
ATAF is a full-time programs that provide you with multiple skills that will prepare you for employment in accounting, finance and management-support positions.

Sector-specific Information Sessions
Free Sector Specific Information Sessions are held monthly for foreign-trained engineers, engineering technicians, technologists, accountants, and teachers trained outside Canada.

Settlement Services

Settlement Services for Newcomers
Our Settlement Services assist individuals and families who have moved to Canada and need orientation, information and referral to services in order to settle and integrate in Canadian society.

Last updated 03/22/2010