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In This Bulletin:
Member News
Meetings, PDWs and member only resources
South West Regional
Meeting
ONESTEP’s Membership
Fees Will Increase on April 1st, 2005
South East Regional
Meeting
News/Alerts
CBT related media reports, RFPs and
announcements
Ontario Works:
Quarterly Statistical Report
Canadian Standards and
Guidelines for Career Development Practicioners
Ontario Disability
Support Program: Quarterly Statistical Reports
HRSDC 2004-2005 Report
on Plans and Priorities
Events
Co-op Certificate
Programs (Toronto)
Understanding Ontario
Works Assistance Program (Toronto)
CAPLA's 10th
Anniversary Workshop & AGM (Toronto)
Portfolio Development
for Career & Employment Professionals (ONIP.online)
Online Resources
CCCBET: Leadership Toolkit
for Community-Based Training Sector
Employment Standards
Brochures
Member News
The meeting agenda for Friday November 12, is now posted in the Member Zone in the South West
Region section.
ONESTEP’s Membership Fees Will Increase on April
1st, 2005
At it’s Annual General Meeting on September 16th, the ONESTEP membership
voted to increase annual fees for full members. Fees have not been increased for
over 10 years. The new membership fee structure would see all full members
categorized based on budget size in to two categories:
Definition of Budget: the agency’s operating and overhead budget minus
stipends or other fees that go directly to clients is over $1.5 million per
year. Programs include: those that fall under ONESTEP’s mandate –
pre-employment, education and training programs. This includes funding under the
following programs -- HRSDC, Job Connect, Literacy Basic Skills, Citizenship and
Immigration Canada (Job Search Workshop, LINC, ISAP).
South East Region ONESTEP meeting, December 6, 2004 at YEAH in Brockville
10:30 am to 1:30 pm. An agenda will be sent before the meeting.
There is no change to
the Auxiliary Membership fee.
News/Alerts
Ontario Works: Quarterly Statistical Report
Figures for September 2004.
Click here
for more information.
Canadian Standards and Guidelines for Career
Development Practicioners
October 2004 Newsletter announcing: Phase 4 of the project has been approved and national updates.
Click here
for more information.
Ontario Disability Support Program: Quarterly
Statistical Reports
Statistics covering September 2004.
Click here
for more information.
HRSDC 2004-2005 Report on Plans and Priorities
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada has published a report
outlining their priorities for the upcoming years.
Click here
for more information.
Events
Co-op Certificate Programs (Toronto)
In co-operation with WoodGreen Immigrant Services, the Job Search Coaching
Centre is offering an information workshop on Co-op Certificate and Canadian
Experience Co-op Programs for NewComers.
Click
here for more information
Understanding Ontario Works Assistance
Program (Toronto)
Would you like to know more about Ontario Works? To have a chance to
understand how this Social Assistance Program works, ask questions and learn who
is eligible?
Click
here for more information
CAPLA's 10th Anniversary Workshop &
AGM (Toronto)
We would like you to join us in Toronto on November 25-26, 2004 at the
Metropolitan Hotel to celebrate CAPLA's 10th Anniversary, to explore several
critical recognition and assessment issues and to attend our Annual General
Meeting.
Click
here for more information
Portfolio Development for Career & Employment
Professionals (ONIP.online)
"Portfolio Development" is an online course for Career & Employment
Professionals who want to learn the theory fundamentals of portfolio
development, while experiencing the process of building a portfolio. During the
course participants will be coached to create a portfolio for themselves and/or
guide a client(s) through the process. Through independent study, discussion
forums, and evening online conferences, you will learn how to use portfolios to
expand your awareness of the skills sets your client(s) possesses, and ways of
validating them.
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:
CCCBET: Leadership Toolkit for Community-Based Training
Sector
CCCBET Releases Leadership Toolkit for Community-Based Training Sector
The Canadian Coalition for Community-Based Employability Training (CCCBET)
has launched a toolkit of leadership best practices for the community-based
training sector.
Emerging from a two-year national research project on the need for leadership
development and succession planning in the CBT sector, the toolkit was
officially launched at the CCCBET’s national conference in February 2004. All
conference materials and PDF forms of the toolkit are also now available online.
Toolkit materials include:
The project also produced two marketing brochures.
Please feel free to use this information to advocate for your agency, for
professional development and to encourage exchanges between agencies.
Click
here for more information
Employment Standards Brochures
The following brochures are available to download.
Click
here for more information
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