- Province wide
workshops
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 Skills for Change and the Centre for
Research in Education and Human Services (CREHS) have partnered
together to bring you ‘Making a Change Together: A Resource
Handbook for Promoting Access to Professions and Trades for
Foreign-Trained People in Ontario'. The project was funded by
Access to Professions and Trades Unit of the Ministry of Training,
Colleges and Universities and Canadian Heritage.
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- The need for giving
foreign-trained people the recognition for their occupational
expertise is a growing concern in Ontario, especially when many
sectors of our economy are in dire need of skilled professionals
and tradespeople. The Handbook provides information and tools to
help foreign-trained people, and groups interested in helping
them, address the problems that have often prevented
foreign-trained people from being effective change makers.
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- The Handbook took over two years
to develop and we are now ready to promote and distribute it in
various cities throughout Ontario. Skills for Change will be at
the following locations promoting the Handbook through a one-day
workshop:
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- May 30th, 2001 - Ottawa
- Catholic Immigration Centre, 219
Argyle St.
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- June 7th, 2001 - Toronto
- Jones Avenue Adult, New Canadian
Centre, 540 Jones Ave.
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- June 11th, 2001 - Toronto
- Skills for Change, 791 St. Clair
Ave. West,
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- June 13th, 2001 - Toronto, Ontario
- Certified General Accountants, 240
Eglinton Ave. East
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- June 18th, 2001 – Thunder Bay
- D.O.O.R.S. to New Life Refugee
Centre Inc., 2085 South Archibald St.
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- June 28th, 2001 – Kingston
- Kingston & District Immigrant
Services, 322 Brock St.
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- The workshop will consist of:
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- · The web of stakeholders involved with
entry to professionals and trades for foreign-trained
professionals in Ontario
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 What changing the system means and how to
do it
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Details on the licensing
process for professions in Ontario and entry trades in Ontario
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Copies of the Handbook will be
handed out at the workshop
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- Happy Birthday to
us!
Our web site is celebrating a birthday. On
Tuesday, May 20, 1997 the skillsforchange.org site was officially
launched. To date we have had over 92,000 visitors (or
"hits"), with an average of 100 every day. Collectively,
these visitors review over 400 web pages every day.
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- CES Speaker
Series
The Clerical Employment Services (CES) Speaker
Series will be held May 14 – 18. Topics include: "Workers
Rights", "Credential Assessment" and,
"Financial Planning".
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- Apprenticeship
Workshop
This is the place to be if you want to learn
about apprenticeship and accreditation for trades in Ontario.
Reservations required. Tuesday, May 29 at SfC.
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- My Story
"You are not alone. There are others who
are concerned about you and will help you." Read Kasra’s
story about job search in Toronto. "It certainly has ups and
downs, but if you posses all the tools and you look hard enough
you will certainly find your desired position. "
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- Certification and
licensing binders on sale again
- In March 1998, SfC developed the Certification
& Licensing 101: An introduction to the Regulated Trades and
Professions in Ontario for a variety of people who provide support
and information to foreign-trained immigrants and refugees. A
review of the manual has been recently conducted and most of the
information contained is still very relevant in assisting
foreign-trained immigrants access their professions and trades.
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- The manual contains:
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Terminology of the trades and professions
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Description of the stakeholders
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The regulated trades, which includes the
certification process
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The regulated professions, which includes the
licensing process
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Issues of access to professions and trades
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Strategies to affect change in the trades and
professions
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- We do stress, however, that to obtain detailed
AND up-to-date certification information, please contact the
licensing body. For each of the twenty-one information sheets in
which a regulated profession in Ontario is profiled, web-sites and
phone numbers of the licensing body is provided. If you would like
to purchase one of these binders please contact Skills for Change
at 658-3101. The cost for each binder is $28.75 (inclusive of
taxes), $33.75 if you need it mailed to you. We have approximately
200 binders left and all purchases will be made on a first come,
first serve basis. The information sheets can also be downloaded
free of charge from our website.
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- Acronym Soup
- Confused? Don't be. Here's a list
of our agency acronyms, what they mean and (where applicable) a
link to the program web page.
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- CES - Clerical Employment Services
- EAS - Employment Assistance
Program
- EPRS - Employment Preparation for
Retail Services
- ERC - Employment Resource Centre
- FOAP - Finance and Office
Assistant Program
- IAT - Intake, Assessment and
Training
- JSC - Job Search Centre
- JSW - Job Search Workshop
- LINC - Language Instruction for
Newcomers to Canada
- NPA
- New Pioneers Awards
- STIC - Sector Terminology
Information & Counselling
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