This training program will provide managers with the key skills required to build organizational capacity in job placement and to develop staff skills and motivation. First Work will be running two 2-day training sessions in London and Toronto, and registration is online.
New and veteran employment service managers will learn to plan for, measure and support job developers and job development efforts. Learn how to be both proactive and reactive in selling to employers and in planning initiatives for immediate action and future growth.
Recommendations affecting Employment Ontario (EO) have been put forward in the Drummond Report, a comprehensive report to the provincial government.
The report outlines the deteriorating state of employment in Ontario, and has put forth nine recommendations to improve the delivery of employment and training services.
Among them are suggestions to focus efforts on clients requiring complex interventions, including at-risk youth, while directing those requiring modest intervention towards lower-cost, self serve resources. First Work sees this as an opportunity to fuel program innovation in the sector and develop self-help approaches for clients requiring modest intervention.
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From the CBC: “Ontario for so long the dominant province is confronting cold calculations that confirm its industrial, economic and demographic power is on the wane. The consensus out of the latest census is that the very things that made Ontario surge now make it sluggish and the center of the universe is tilting West.
The changing job market in Ontario is particularly tough on young people, and many are leaving for better opportunities.
Randy Heasman, the Director of Employment Programs at St. Stephen’s House in Toronto, has worked for twenty five years helping youth find work.”
We are looking for dynamic individuals interested in sharing their expertise with the delegates of Futures. Futures is Canada’s largest and longest-running conferences for employment professionals serving youth. Lead the field by contributing your best practices to this exceptional professional development and networking opportunity.
Submit your workshop proposal here.
Please pass this link on to leaders in the youth employment field who may want to contribute.
April 13th, 2012.
If you have any questions about this Request for Presenters, please contact Michelle Haddad at futures@firstwork.org or (416) 323-9557 ext. 233.
April 13th, 2012.
If you have any questions about this Request for Presenters, please contact Michelle Haddad at futures@firstwork.org or (416) 323-9557 ext. 233. Continue Reading »
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