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| April 29, 2005 |
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In This Bulletin:
Member News
Meetings, PDWs and member only resources
South East Regional
Meeting
South West Regional
Meeting
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membership today!
News/Alerts
CBT related media reports, RFPs and
announcements
PUBLIC INSTITUTION? OR
PUBLIC NUISANCE?
A Look At Welfare
Reform
Commendation for
Working Skills Centre
Doling it Out
Where Did
All the Welfare Cases Go?
JobWave nod leaves
questions
Brief to the House of
Commons Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration
Welfare Reform's
Public-Private Partnerships
Events
Solution-focused
interviewing for helping professionals (Kingston)
Strategic Job
Development To Place Internationally-Trained Professionals (online)
17th Annual OAYEC AGM
and Conference (Alliston)
Light Industrial
Training Program (London)
Property Maintenance
Program (London)
New sessions confirmed
for Imagine Canada (Toronto)
The Canadian
Counselling Association Conference (St.
John's)
Online Resources
Welfare Reform in Ontario: A
Report Card
JobWave™ Job Placement
Program: A New Model of Social Inclusion
Future of Social Innovation
in Canada - How the Non-profit Sectors Serves Canadians
HRSCD 2004-2005 Report on
Plans and Priorities
Job Postings
PR & Communications (Kingston)
Executive Director (Ottawa)
Manager,
Employment Services (Ottawa)
Member News
Next South East region meeting is on Thursday June 2, 2005 at 10:00 am at
KEYS in Kingston. An agenda will follow closer to the time of the meeting.
Next South West region meeting is on Friday June 17, 2005 at 10:00 am at the
London Unemployed Help Centre. An agenda will follow closer to the time of the
meeting.
Renew your agency’s membership today!
New membership fees effective April 1st 2005: Ratified at September 16, 2004
AGM.
Full members pay:
*Budget does not include stipends to clients but include education and
training funding for education, training, pre-employment activities.
Our Full Members:
As a full member, you can be confident that ONESTEP will be looking out for
you while you look out for your clients.
News/Alerts
PUBLIC INSTITUTION? OR PUBLIC NUISANCE?
Human Resources & Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) has gone off the deep
end. To make up for the poor account administration that launched the so-called
"Boondoggle" scandal back in 2000, the Ministry has introduced policies and
procedures that make it a pest, not a partner, to the community sector
contractors who carry out so much of its mandate.
Click here
for more information.
ONESTEP has grouped together a recent provincial announcement along with a
number of studies and other interesting reports on welfare reform.
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for more information.
Commendation for Working Skills Centre
The Toronto Business & Professional Women’s Club commends Working Skills
Centre for its contribution to the holistic and integrated training of over
21,000 immigrant women into the Canadian Labour market in the City of Toronto
for more than 26 years.
Click here
for more information.
Imagine you’re on welfare, and you’ve been told that if you don’t sign up for
a recommended job training program, you could lose your benefits. Even if you’re
just getting the minimum $510 a month (for a single and employable person),
that’s not so bad compared with getting nothing.
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for more information.
Where Did All the Welfare Cases Go?
To work, say the Liberals. But critics say the claim that the 87,000 who've
left are doing well rests on shaky evidence.
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for more information.
On January 26, premier Gordon Campbell was out at the JobWave BC call centre
to congratulate businessman Ian Ferguson and WCG International Consultants Ltd.
on getting 30,000 people off welfare and into work.
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for more information.
Brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on
Citizenship and Immigration
The Recognition of International Experience and Credentials of Immigrants
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for more information.
Welfare Reform's Public-Private Partnerships
The Fraser Institute says they're a huge advance in social policy. Critics
say work placement companies are growing rich but doing little.
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for more information.
Submission by: Mayor David Miller, City of Toronto
Events
Solution-focused interviewing for helping
professionals (Kingston)
A two day strength-based skill development workshop for career practictioners
& other helping professionals. Asking helpful questions that empower clients
to discover how lasting solutions to their problems reside in their own
strengths and resources.
Click
here for more information
Strategic Job Development To Place
Internationally-Trained Professionals (online)
For service providers involved in job placement and job development. This
4-day workshop will involve the participants in online activities and
discussions around building relationships with employees and strategic job
development.
Click
here for more information
17th Annual OAYEC AGM and
Conference (Alliston)
The 17th annual Ontario Association of Youth Employment Centers AGM and
Conference features guest speakers, workshops and activities.
Click
here for more information
Light Industrial Training Program (London)
This 8 week program prepares individuals to work in any factory, warehouse or
light industrial setting.
Click
here for more information
Property Maintenance Program (London)
This 8 week PMT program prepares individuals to work in the cleaning
industry.
Click
here for more information
New sessions confirmed for Imagine
Canada (Toronto)
JHU International Symposium March 22 and 23/Confirmation de nouvelles
interventionsau Symposium international d’Imagine Canada et de JHU des 22 et 23
mars
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here for more information
The Canadian Counselling Association
Conference (St. John's)
The theme of the 2005 conference is "Roots of Resilience." Organizers invite
you to St. John's to enjoy the many opportunities to learn, inspire and network
with your peers.
Click
here for more information
Online Resources
The Resource Library is an online searchable database of
information about community-based employment and training across Ontario and
beyond. Visit the ONESTEP Resource Library: www.onestep.on.ca/resource/intro.cfm
Below are some recent additions:
Welfare Reform in Ontario: A Report Card
Executive summary
This study will examine welfare policies in Ontario since 1985, evaluating
the welfare reforms initiated under the newly elected provincial government in
June 1995. These will be compared with reforms of welfare policies in the United
States, which have proven abundantly successful in reducing dependency,
increasing employment and earnings of welfare leavers, and lowering poverty
rates, as well as with reforms of welfare policies undertaken by other Canadian
jurisdictions. The following evaluation is based upon six principles that
research has found to play a prominent role in effective welfare reform. The
criteria selected cover two broad areas: policy and program delivery.
Click
here for more information
JobWave™ Job Placement Program: A New Model of Social
Inclusion
Overview
JobWave is a unique public-private partnership (P3) that successfully assists
welfare recipients (‘participant s’) to leave the world of social assistance and
return to workplace inclusion in meaningful, long-term employment. The model
results in a “win-win” for the participant, government and the small business
sector in Canada. JobWave has saved client governments many millions of dollars
in social assistance payments and is only paid a percentage of the savings,
based strictly on successful performance. JobWave helps participant s make the
transition from social assistance to full participation in the economy and
society – a transition that profoundly changes their lives. It also helps small
- and medium - sized enterprises thrive by finding the appropriate human capital
they need, at no cost to them. JobWave becomes the HR Division of small
business.
Click
here for more information
Future of Social Innovation in Canada - How the
Non-profit Sectors Serves Canadians
A new report from Canadian Policy Research Networks calls for a new framework
for support to this vital sector. Social Innovation in Canada, by Mark
Goldenberg, a former federal assistant deputy minister who worked on social and
labour market policy, examines the role of the non-profit sector in social
innovation and what needs to be done to make the most of it.
Click
here for more information
HRSCD 2004-2005 Report on Plans and Priorities
Excerpt from Report Mandate
HRSDC's vision is to build a country where everyone has the opportunity to
learn, and to contribute to Canada's success by participating fully in a
well-functioning and efficient labour market. HRSDC's mission is to improve the
standard of living and quality of life of all Canadians by promoting a highly
skilled and mobile labour force and an efficient and inclusive labour market.
This means the department has a central role in helping build a 21st century
economy for Canada and in strengthening Canada's social foundations.
Go to report table of contents: http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/est-pre/20042005/HRSDC-RHDCC/HRSDC-RHDCCr45_e.asp
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here for more information
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