Past Activities
2008-2009 Partnerships
- To the Door Not Through the Door: Skilled Immigrants and Access to the Labour Market
- Hiring The Best: An Employer’s Guide to Immigrant Services in Toronto
- Pathways to the Trades and Technologies: One Day Forums on Careers in the Skilled Trades and Technologies
"An Overview of the Ontario Apprenticeship System" - Presentation at Humber Institute of Advanced Learing and Technology Forum
- Working Together for Women’s Employment: Information Session on Employment and Training Opportunities for Newcomers
- Talking Trades: Professional Development Workshops for Job Developers
- Songs of Experience: Older Workers Transition Into and Out of the Labour Force
- update of the apprenticeship brochure;
- cooperation with the Toronto Construction Association;
- co-sponsoring a forum with the Carpenter's Local 27;
- putting a weblink to training centres on our site.
- Highlight innovative approaches that effectively and equitably integrate immigrants into the Canadian labour force;
- Bring together labour, community, business and academic representatives to share knowledge and to engage in a critical analysis of current policy and practice using an equity framework.
- Apparel Human Resources Council [PowerPoint format, 1050KB]
Want to learn what it is like to work in the apparel industry? For more information click here [MS Word format, 100KB] - Canadian Automotive Repair And Service Council [PowerPoint format, 5.3MB]
- Canadian Food Industry Council (CFIC) [PowerPoint format, 27.7MB] Want to learn more what it is like to work in the food industry? For more information click here [PDF format, 65.8MB]
- Canadian Plastics Sector Council [PowerPoint format, 100KB]
- Canadian Printing Industries Sector Council [PowerPoint format, 246KB]
- Canadian Supply Chain Sector Council [PowerPoint format, 100KB]
- Canadian Trucking Human Resources Council [PowerPoint format, 4.86MB]
- Construction Sector Council [Adobe Acrobat format, 3MB]
- Ontario Tourism Education Corporation (OTEC) [PowerPoint format, 22MB]
- Textiles Human Resources Council [PowerPoint format, 9MB]
- Wood Manufacturing Council [PowerPoint format, 42MB]
- Hosted a panel presentation where CORCAN national and local staff as well as a CORCAN client presented a national picture, client needs, local services they offer and the areas they want to develop partnerships with the youth employment network
- Developed a strong relationship between CORCAN and the youth employment network, in which they share job share information, employment and training opportunities, etc.
- Connected CORCAN with Landscape Ontario and other trade opportunities for their clients to access.
- Administrative Professionals Day
- Creativity in the Community
Reframing Success: Immigrant Women as "Entrepreneurs"
[Adobe Acrobat PDF, 100 KB] - Forum on Contingent Work
"Ten Ways of Seeing Precarious Employment" [Adobe Acrobat PDF, 800 KB] - Sector Council Event
- Somali Youth Employment Partnership
Towards An Integrated Strategy: Maximizing Use of Local Resources - AGM- Working and Living in Toronto
- Youth Employment through Apprenticeships [opens in new window]
- Symposium on Youth and Literacy - March 2004
- Teachers' Think Tank Meeting on Internationally Educated Teachers held January 09, 2003
- Skills Work for Women Networking Dinner held in collaboration with Skills Canada
- Internationally Educated Professionals Conference - "Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges" held in collaboration with PCPI, City of Toronto, and Toronto Community News in 2002 and 2003. See www.iep.ca
- Assessing the needs of marginalized immigrant women and developing strategies and solutions to increase their participation rate in the labour market.
- Examining viable options for employment for foreign-trained health care professionals.
- Enhancing employment and training in Regent Park and Moss Park for the resident of those neighbourhoods
2007-2008 Partnerships
Youth Employment Partnerships Information Series
The Toronto Training Board in collaboration with Youth Employment Partnerships and the City of Toronto organized 4 breakfast workshops series on: ‘Working in Toronto”
1.The ABC’s of Unions: Advantages, Benefits and Collective Agreements. September 18, 2007
2.Trade Unions, Apprenticeship and Occupations.
November 20th, 2007
3. Resources for Internationally Trained Youth.
January 15th, 2008
4. Putting It All Together.
March 11th, 2008
Job developers and managers were invited to attend the above labour market information sessions that addressed interests identified in the 2006-07 TTB/YEP Sector Council Series. Sessions provided an overview of trade unions, information about opportunities in the skilled trades and an enhanced understanding of employment trends in Toronto.
Women’s Employment Workshops
This was a partnership of the Toronto Training Board with ACTEW, Centre for Education and Training, Don Mills Employment Resource Centre, Flemingdon Neighbourhood Services, Labour Community Services, MicroSkills, MPP Minister of Education Kathleen Wynne, Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office, and Working Women Community Centre
Between April and May 2007, there were four career/employment workshops held for women that were looking for work in the Thornecliffe area. The sessions focused on the trades and occupations, self-employment entrepreneurship, internationally-trained individuals, teachers and ECE’s.
Orientation to the Trades
The partnership was a targeted outreach to employers by making use of a number of strategies that included:
Different employer associations will get information about the incentives and advantages of hiring apprentices
“Jobs, Skills and Immigrants: Who’s Working? What’s Working: Sector Specific Workshops
The TTB in partnership with the Centre for the Study of Education and Work,
Toronto Board of Trade, TRIEC and the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants facilitated four sector specific sessions to share “promising practices” related to the conference “Jobs, Skills and Immigrants: Who’s Working? What’s Working?” Each session was directed at a specific labour market constituency group including employers, settlement service providers, and educators.
Approximately 120 people learned about promising or best practices related to employing qualified immigrants.
2006-2007 Partnerships
Conference on Jobs, Skills and Immigrants
This was a partnership with the Centre for the Study of Education and Work at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. The conference was held on October 12 and 13, 2006 at Hart House, University of Toronto. The goals of the conference were to:
Other partners in this event included:
Information Fairs in North Etobicoke
The TTB worked with the North Etobicoke Revitalization Project (NERP) to organize three information fairs on employment. Each fair had a different topic. The topics were:
The fairs were open to the public and held at times that maximized access for immigrant families and high-school aged-youth.
Employer Investment in Training
The demands of the labour market are changing and employers need highly skilled workers. According to the Organization of Economic Development (OECD) in Canada, the level of employer investment in training employees is one of the lowest in the developed nations. The TTB, in partnership with the Toronto Board of Trade and the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at OISE/UT looked into what support(s) employers require to address this issue. For more information refer to the literature review.
Sector Council – Job Developers Networking Breakfasts
The TTB and the Youth Employment Partnerships (YEP) worked with the Alliance of Sector Councils (TASC) to hold 4 networking breakfasts. Over 30 job developers participated in each session.
The sessions introduced job developers working in the youth employment sector with career development and occupational information produced by national and local Sector Councils. Representatives from 3-4 Sector Councils provided information on their industry at each session.
Click below to view the Sector Council Representatives Presentations.
Food Industry Career Paths [PowerPoint format, 72.5KB]
Food Industry Training Directory [MS Excel format, 99KB]
Connecting CORCAN to the Youth Employment Agency Network
The TTB worked with Corrections Canada (CORCAN), the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 353 (IBEW), the Ontario Association of Youth Employment Centres (OAYEC) and the Youth Employment Partnerships (YEP) to connect CORCAN counsellors to the youth employment service network. CORCAN counsellors work with minimum sentence federal offenders to connect them back into the community and workforce when they are released.This partnership had several stages.
To date the TTB has:
Youth in Trades
East End Social Services- City of Toronto, Labour Community Services, Malvern Youth Community Employment Program (MYCEP), the Somali Youth Association of Toronto (SOYAT), YMCA Scarborough and the TTB organized a two day tour of the trades with 40 interested youth from across the city. On the first day the youth were given an interactive overview of the trades at George Brown College. The second day involved a tour at the Carpenter's Local 27 Apprenticeship Training Centre and a panel presentation. This partnership addressed the issues identified in the Trends, Opportunities and Priorities Report that there are still high levels of youth unemployment in Toronto and skill shortages in specific trades.
