Opportunities 2005- Opening New Doors Together
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Opportunities 2005- Opening New Doors Together |
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| July 25, 2005 |
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In This Bulletin:
Member News
Meetings, PDWs and member only resources
Request for Letters of
Intent
Get Your Super Saver
Rate Before Time Runs Out!
News/Alerts
CBT related media reports, RFPs and
announcements
Editorial- Job Training
Strangled
Agencies Battle for
Cash
Makeover for Adult
Education
Policy Points
Events
MISWAA Employment
Training Workshop (Toronto)
Solution-focused
interviewing: Dealing with challenging clients (Kingston)
Online Resources
The Non-Profit Sector in a
Place-based Policy World
Profile of the Paid Labour
Force
New
Approaches in Achieving Compliance with Statutory Employment
Standards
Job Postings
Job Skills Business Coach (Keswick)
Job Search
Workshop Facilitator (GTA)
Member News
Social Development Canada (SDC) is interested in supporting community-led
social innovation projects by issuing a Request for Letters of Intent (RFLI) for
funding that will support national learning on pre-established innovative
approaches to community-driven cross-sectoral collaborations to reduce poverty.
Detailed information can be found at:
Get Your Super Saver Rate Before Time Runs Out!
Time is running out for you to take advantage of the special Super Saver rate
for Opportunities 2005. If you register before August 4th you will get in to
Opportunities for the low price of $220 and you'll have an exclusive 10 day
period to book sessions before they are opened to the other registrants.
To register please visit the Opportunities website at: http://www.onestep.on.ca/opportunities2005
http://www.sdc.gc.ca/en/hip/sd/SDPPcfp2005/rfli.shtml
News/Alerts
Editorial- Job Training Strangled
This article draws attention to funding issues in the non-profit employment
sector that are resulting in the reduction of services and even closure of
agencies. It suggests there must be an overhaul of the criteria used when making
funding decisions.
Click here
for more information.
This article details the events that took place at a community meeting on
July 20th regarding HRSDC funding policies. Employment agencies, clients groups,
and politicians met to discuss the challenges with the present system and come
up with an action plan. One of the problems discussed by MP Maria Minna is that
organzations are now being turned against one another as they bid for the same
contracts from the government.
Click here
for more information.
This article takes a look at the report "Ontario Learns" put out by Kathleen
Wynne, Parliamentary Assistant to Education Minister Gerard Kennedy. This report
discusses changes that need to be made to make adult education more accessible
and effective in order to create a more productive society.
Click here
for more information.
First news letter of International Centre for Career Guidance and Public
Policy. Outlines research and other information of interest for people working
in the areas of Career Development and Public Policy.
Click here
for more information.
Events
MISWAA Employment Training Workshop (Toronto)
This is a working session to discuss approaches to training for Social
Assistance recipients, particularly those who have been out of the workforce for
quite some time. The session is being hosted by the Task Force for Modernizing
Income Security for Working Age Adults (MISWAA).
Click
here for more information
Solution-focused interviewing: Dealing with
challenging clients (Kingston)
Refining the strength-based skills and the solution-building interview
strategies to deal more effectively with the most challenging of clients
including those who are discouraged, unmotivated, critical and angry. Also
examined will be self-care strategies to reduce job related stress and burnout,
that frequently affects front line professionals working in a helping or
supervisory capacity.
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:
The Non-Profit Sector in a Place-based Policy World
The value of the non-profit sector has never been clearer. In addition to its
age-old role of providing social goods and services that the market and public
sectors have failed to deliver adequately, the sector is a key player in the new
social policy era. So argues David Hay, Director of CPRN’s Family Network. Hay
says that despite the challenges inherent in funding regimes, reporting
requirements and regulations, the sector is still a major source of social
innovation. Its committed workforce, experience, knowledge, flexibility and
creativity, its entrepreneurial capacity and its holistic approach are its
strengths. Hay suggests that non-profits are well placed to play an increasingly
important part in place-based policies of the future.
Click
here for more information
Profile of the Paid Labour Force
Did you know that nearly half of all non-profit and voluntary organizations
in Canada have paid employees and that they make up 7.2 % of the Country’s total
paid labour force? For a profile of the sector’s paid labour force, based on
Statistics Canada’s 2003 Highlights of the National Survey of Nonprofit and
Voluntary Organizations, see the link below
Click
here for more information
New Approaches in Achieving Compliance with Statutory
Employment Standards
New Approaches in Achieving Compliance with Statutory Employment Standards,
by Ron Saunders, Director of CPRN's Work Network, and Patrice Dutil, Director of
Research, of The Institute of Public Administration of Canada, calls for
creating a "culture of compliance" regarding employment standards in Canada. The
authors propose a mix of tools for achieving that goal efficiently and
effectively.
Click
here for more information
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