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Skills for Change
SfCeNews
February 28, 2004
Volume 5 Issue 02
Skills for Change (SfC) is a non-profit agency based in Toronto,
Ontario, Canada.
Our mandate is to provide learning and training opportunities for
immigrants and refugees so that they can participate in the
workplace and wider community.
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edition...
Book your tickets to the 2004 NPA Awards
SfC Featured on
Telelatino
Calling all STIC
Graduates
Volunteers Build
Employer Database
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Book your tickets to the
2004 New Pioneers Awards
Don't miss the inspiring New Pioneers Awards being held on March 25,
2004 at the Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto. Six outstanding new
Canadians will be honoured for their contributions to Canada at a
prestigious gala dinner event.
The evening starts at 6 p.m. with a reception followed by dinner and
the Awards ceremony.
Consider donating a a product, service or gift certificate to our Silent
Auction.
More information
here.
Tickets $85 per person or a corporate table seating 10 at $1,200.
To book tickets, please call 416-658-3101 ext. 231.
Order tickets on-line
Visa or MasterCard
Mail or Fax ticket order form
Download order form in pdf or
web version
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New Pioneers Awards
Sponsors
Lead
Sponsor
CIBC
Arts Award Sponsor
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Community Service Award Sponsor
Manulife Financial
Entrepreneurship Award Sponsor
Sun Life Financial
Skills for Change Graduate Award Sponsor
Certified General Accountants of Ontario
Youth Award Sponsor
Xerox Canada Limited
Science and Technology Award Sponsor
Blake Cassels and Graydon LLP
Gold Sponsor
Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration
TD Bank Financial Group
Silver Sponsor
Teranet Inc.
Corporate Donor Plus
NHI Nursing & Home Health Care Inc.
Donors
Energy Savings Income Fund
Imperial Tobacco Canada Inc.
Official Television Sponsor
Citytv
Official Newspaper
The Toronto Star
Official Chinese Print Sponsor
Ming Pao Daily
Radio Sponsor
EZRock
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- SfC Featured on
Telelatino
Marily Molina, Facilitator/Counselor with Clerical Employment
Services (CES) program, recently taped an interview on Nosotros, a
community affairs program for Toronto’s Spanish-speaking
community on Telelatino. Earlier, Marta Pinzon, host of
Nosotros, visited SfC and videotaped classes in session. The
program will air on Saturday, May 22nd at 6:00 pm.
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- Calling all STIC
Graduates
If you graduated from any of the
STIC programs – Engineering,
Accounting, Healthcare, Information Technology, or
Biotechnology - SFC would like to hear from you.
The
Sector-Specific Employment Preparation Program began at Skills
for Change in January 1998. The agency is conducting research
on the outcomes of newcomers with integration into the Toronto
labour market. In addition, the newly-created Skills for
Change Graduate Network is developing programming in
collaboration with the agency to develop networking and
post-graduate opportunities.
Since many graduates move and
change their address after finding that first job, we need to
update your information in order to reach you. We would love
to hear from you to see how you are succeeding.
To assist us,
please forward your contact information, including home
address, phone number, and e-mail to
hughes@skillsforchange.org.
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- Volunteers Build
Employer Database
Under the direction of David Hughes, Manager of Business
Development and Administration, a team of newcomers is
donating their time in helping with the research and
populating of a new employer database.
This valuable resource
will assist SfC job developers with reaching out to employers
to secure positions and job placements for SfC clients and
will expand our opportunities for reaching the corporate
community for marketing our Human Resource Services for
Employers.
The work of the volunteers has been exceptional.
They include Alex Alexiev, Raju Erramilli, Amine Kara, Vitusha
Oberoi, Abdelhamid, Elaine Zhong, Marc Holloran, and Alice
Zhang.
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Check out what's new
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Have you
used www.onip.ca? If yes, please, tell us how you like it.
ONIP.online is undergoing a formal evaluation. Sheila Sim, our
evaluation consultant, designed a fun and easy-to-use online
survey for us. We would like to ask you to fill it in. Simply
go to www.onip.ca, click on
“Take our survey” at the top of the page, and then tick off
your answers. It is a 10-minute job, and it provides us with
invaluable information and direction for enhancing our
services.
Have fun with the survey, and thank you for your efforts!
How to plan and use online discussions in your work with
clients or professional networking?
Have you ever considered online discussion forums as a way
of providing support to your clients, or for maintaining a
professional network? If you want to learn more – check the
discussion board of a London group of Online Facilitators on
http://www.onip.ca/board/viewforum.php?f=15&sid=63d99f178751b6b279f9acde2b0fa0ac
The London Group was formed as part of the Skills for Change
pilot project on Providing Distance Employment Services to
Internationally-trained Professionals. The group of employment
counselors and facilitators communicated through the
discussion board on ONIP.online to learn more about discussion
boards, and to plan their own online work with
internationally-trained clients. The information accumulated
in this process would be of use to anyone interested in
providing services online.
The findings and learning from the pilot project will be
published in the Service Providers section of
www.onip.ca by the end of
March.
Have you checked our Online Mentoring Program (link to
www.onip.ca/mentroing) recently?
We have mentors waiting to support their
internationally-trained colleagues. Go to
www.onip.ca/mentoring
to refer your clients with background in accounting, civil
engineering, quality assurance, library sciences, teaching.
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ONIP.online is a project of Skills
for Change,
funded by Volunteer@ction.online
and the Ontario Trillium Foundation
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TechSkills specializes in hands-on, instructor-led training in the latest
software applications.
We offer instructors with years of real-world
expertise in a fun informal setting, teaching everything from basic web
site development to more advanced accounting and database design.
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Course Name |
Hrs |
Start |
Day(s) |
Time |
Fee
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A+ Certification |
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Feb. 17 |
Tue/Thu |
6p-9p |
$699 |
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A+ Certification |
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Mar. 6 |
Sat |
10a-4p |
$699 |
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Accounting I |
50 |
Apr. 17 |
Sat |
9a – 2p |
$300 |
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ACCPAC for Windows 5.0 |
70 |
Mar. 27
Jun. 26 |
Sat |
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$360 |
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ACCPAC for Windows 5.0 |
70 |
Mar. 1 |
Mon/Wed |
6p-9:30p |
$360 |
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Quality Assurance & Control
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50 |
Apr. 24 |
Sat |
9a-2pm |
$350 |
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Excel 2002 Level 1 |
12 |
Apr. 20 |
Tue/Thu |
6:30p-9:30p |
$80 |
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Excel 2002 Level 2 |
12 |
Mar. 9 |
Tue/Thu |
6:30p-9:30p |
$80 |
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Word 2002 Essentials |
12 |
Mar. 6 |
Sat |
10a-3p |
$40 |
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Word 2002 Level 2 |
12 |
Mar. 23 |
Tue/Thu |
6:30p-9:30p |
$80 |
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Access 2002 Level 1 |
12 |
Mar. 22 |
Mon/Wed |
6:30p-9:30p |
$80 |
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Access 2002 Level 2 |
12 |
Apr. 19 |
Mon/Wed |
6:30p-9:30p |
$80 |
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PowerPoint & Publisher
Essentials |
5 |
Apr. 3 |
Sat |
10a-3p |
$40 |
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FrontPage Web Site Essentials |
5 |
Apr. 17 |
Sat |
10a-3p |
$40 |
To register, call 416 658-3101
ext. 218, or,
register on-line
with your Visa or MasterCard
Download application form in pdf format
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Daytime, evening and Saturday courses
now accepting applications:
(Courses are offered by the
Toronto Catholic District School Board and the Toronto District School Boards)
- ESL/Advanced Communication in the
Workplace for Working People
- ESL/Communicating Clearly
- ESL/Computerized Accounting
- ESL/Customer Service Program
- ESL/Intensive English
- ESL/Introductory Bookkeeping
- ESL/Keyboarding
- ESL/Keyboarding, Word Processing
- ESL/Medical Terminology
- ESL/Microsoft Office 2000
- ESL/Microsoft Word and Excel 2000
- TOEFL
- ESL/Work Search for
Internationally-Trained Engineers
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Fees
Skills for Change charges a $40, non-refundable Facility Fee for each
course taken. An additional materials fee of $10 to $20 is charged for
courses sponsored by some Boards of Education.
How to Apply
Please call our Information Line (416) 658-7090 from Monday to Friday
between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. or call our main number (416) 658-3101 ext. 0
Monday to Thursday from 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. or Saturday from 10 a.m. to
12 noon. to book an appointment for the Orientation and Assessment
Session.
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www.derc.ca
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Programs and Services
Updates
View our Programs and Services Calendar
on line
here
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Seminars
On Thursday, February 26, 2004, Dave Lovelock, SfC Board Member
and Co-Chair of the New Pioneers Award Steering Committee,
delivered a seminar to over 50 clients on -
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How to Look for, Land, and Keep a Job in the Canadian Workplace.
What’s True or False in Today’s Workplace – Dispelling Some
Popular Misconceptions
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Clients gave us a very positive feedback and said they would like
to have more opportunities of attending similar seminars in the
future.
Dave will be delivering the second seminar on Wednesday, March 3,
2004.
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Language
Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC)
The LINC program held its end of session graduation party. All
four levels of classes attended the festivities with a bountiful
array of cultural delicacies available. With the unseasonably warm
weather, there seemed to be a hint of spring in the air and this
was mirrored by the many plants and flowers that students brought
to the graduation. There truly is a feeling that spring is just
around the corner!
The LINC classes will resume with a new session starting on
Monday, March 1, 2004 and continuing till April 23, 2004. Students
are still being accepted in the LINC 3 level (low intermediate)
and in the LINC 4-5 level (Conversation). For further information
please call the receptionist at Skills for Change at (416)
658-3101, ext. 0.
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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 |
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CIS |
Cultural
Interpreting Service |
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EAS |
Employment
Assistance Services |
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EPRS |
Employment for Retail Services |
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ERC |
Employment
Resource Centre |
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FOAP |
Finance & Office
Assistant Program |
| IAT |
Intake,
Assessment and Training |
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ITAB |
Internationally
Trained Accountants and Bookkeepers |
| JSC |
Job Search
Centre |
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JSW |
Job Search
Workshop |
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LINC |
Language
Instruction for Newcomers to Canada |
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ONIP |
Ontario Network
for Internationally-training Professionals Online |
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NPA |
New Pioneers
Awards |
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STIC |
Sector
Terminology Information & Counselling |
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Skills for Change
791 St. Clair Avenue West
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6C 1B8
A
United Way member agency
©Skills for Change
2004
SfCis a
registered non-profit organization
Charitable registration #121471858RR0001
Telephone 416 658-3101 · Fax 416 658-6292
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