Professional Development
First Work facilitates professional development opportunities for youth employment practitioners across Ontario. Click here to see our current training opportunities.
Building skills of Youth Employment Centre staff is key to strengthening Youth Employment Services across Ontario. First Work is dedicated to coordinating professional development opportunities, not just to First Work Members, but to any professionals in Ontario that work with youth on employment issues.
First Work seeks to support professional development of youth employment professionals by:
Hosting an annual professional development conference, Futures
First Work offers an Annual Conference every fall that provides training sessions to front-line workers, managers and senior managers. Learn more about this year’s conference- Coordinating Professional Development Opportunities throughout the Year
First Work coordinates additional professional development opportunities throughout the year. As these opportunities arise, information will be posted on our web site. - Disseminating other Training Opportunities to our Network of Members
First Work collects and disseminates information about training and professional development opportunities occurring throughout the province.
Professional Development Opportunities
Job Developers Institute
The Job Developers Institute is the only 2-day hybrid face-to-face and on-line college-level Job Developers training in Canada. We run many sessions every year, and can even bring the training to your community! more…
Recommended Online Professional Development Resources:
Funded by the Counselling Foundation of Canada, this user-friendly web site is targeted directly towards employment counsellors across Canada. Features include a resources database, job postings for employment counsellors, discussion areas, news, professional development and more.
CERIC, the Canadian Education and Research Institute for Counselling, presents CANNEXUS — a National Career Development Conference designed to promote the exchange of information and explore innovative approaches in the areas of career counselling and career development.For more information, visit: http://www.cannexus.ca
