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ABC Life Literacy Canada
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
ABC Life Literacy Canada specializes in public awareness campaigns, and provides promotional support to local literacy groups. It is also the founder of Family Literacy Day, a national initiative that promotes the importance of reading and learning together as a family.
Aboriginal Human Resource Council
Category: Essential skills
The Aboriginal Human Resource Council was formed in 1998 as a public-private not-for-profit organization with a mandate to address Aboriginal labour market issues on a national level. The council has earned a national reputation for service excellence and human resource innovation through the programs, products, services and projects it has developed with help from many partners.
Aboriginal Trades and Apprenticeship
Category: Essential skills
This website will help Aboriginal employment practitioners, employers, training institutions and sector councils engage in connections, explore skilled career opportunities and expand their knowledge about Aboriginal participation in trades. Use this site to inform, and be informed, about Aboriginal trades and apprenticeship issues.
ACCC & Essential Skills
Category: Essential skills
The Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) has developed this site to provide an exchange network on essential skills for its member institutions and their partners. It features a description of ongoing and completed essential skills projects and a database of resources and tools.
Adult Literacy in Canada and Sweden: From Policy to Practice
The purpose of this qualitative research is to gain an understanding of factors that may account for the differences between adult literacy levels in Canada and Sweden as reported in the International Adult Literacy Survey.
The Alliance of Sector Councils
Category: Essential skills
The Alliance of Sector Councils (TASC) is a coordinating body for 37 sector councils and sector-like organizations. TASC brings together representatives from business, labour, education and other professional groups in a neutral forum to comprehensively and cooperatively analyze and address sector-wide human resource issues on a national scale.
Apparel Human Resources Council (AHRC)
Category: Essential skills
The Apparel Human Resources Council (AHRC) is a national, industry-led organization representing and serving the human resources development and adjustment needs of managers and employees in the apparel manufacturing industry. It is managed by a private sector board of directors equally representative of employers and employees. Through the AHRC, a wide range of issues including training and education is addressed.
ArrowMight Canada Ltd.
Category: Learning
ArrowMight Canada is a team of 20 education specialists including First Nations, Inuit and Métis consultants. They collaborate with IPLAC (Instituto Pedagogico LatinoAmericano y Caribeno) to deliver an at-home, cost-effective adult literacy program that enables English-speaking Canadians, Aboriginals and immigrant students to achieve their life goals.
Association of Canadian Community Colleges
Category: Essential skills
The Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) is the national, voluntary membership organization created in 1972 to represent colleges and institutes to government, business and industry, both in Canada and internationally. ACCC interacts with federal departments and agencies on members’ behalf and links college capabilities to national industries.
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
We are a not-for-profit, non-governmental association that represents Canadian universities, at home and abroad. Our 87 members are made up of universities from every province. Our mandate is to foster and promote the interests of higher education. We believe strong universities are vital to Canada's prosperity and well-being.
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BioTalent Canada
Category: Essential skills
BioTalent Canada, formerly the Biotechnology Human Resource Council, is Canada’s leading source for human resource information and biotechnology skills development. BioTalent Canada’s research, reports, courses, employment bank and programs promote careers, assist companies with human resource issues, and encourage continuing education within the industry.
BuildForce Canada
Category: Essential skills
Originally created in 2001 as the Construction Sector Council, BuildForce Canada is a national industry-led organization committed to working with the construction industry to provide information and resources to assist with its management of workforce requirements.
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Call for Proposals for Employment Programs/Service Canada
Category: Essential skills
Service Canada invites interested and qualified applicants to develop project proposals for employment programs. Applicants must submit an application for funding to carry out activities that meet a community need identified by the department and that will be funded through one of its contribution programs. As part of this process and to facilitate access, calls for proposals will be posted on this website.
Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This website serves as the single Government of Canada point of reference for credible and sanctioned information about Canada’s anti-spam legislation (CASL). The information on the website currently includes a link to the law, key facts, frequently asked questions, information about the Spam Reporting Centre, and how the law will be enforced and administered.
Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council (CAHRC)
Category: Essential skills
The Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council was created to address the human resources issues facing agriculture businesses across Canada. The council works to alleviate labour shortages by creating tools and methods to attract and retain skilled workers. Its objectives are to improve access to training and skills development programs and enhance the image of agriculture as a profitable and fulfilling career.
Canadian Apprenticeship Forum
Category: Essential skills
The Canadian Apprenticeship Forum is a not-for-profit organization that promotes and supports the apprenticeship training and education systems in Canada. Its mission is to influence Canadian apprenticeship strategies through research, discussion and collaboration.
Canadian Association for Prior Learning Assessment (CAPLA)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
As the only national organization dedicated to the recognition of prior learning (RPL), CAPLA has developed considerable expertise in a wide range of areas connected to PLAR. Its network of practitioners, advisers and assessors can be found in communities in every province and territory in Canada.
Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE)
Category: Learning
The CASAE/ACÉÉA network, established in 1981, is a vibrant and energetic organization that provides a supportive network for graduate students, faculty members, researchers and practitioners who are engaged in adult education.
Canadian Association for University Continuing Education (CAUCE)
Category: Learning
The mission of the association is to enlarge the scope and quality of educational opportunities for adults at the university level by enhancing the stature and expertise of those institutions and individuals devoted to providing those opportunities.
Canadian Association of Career Educators and Employers (CACEE)
Category: Essential skills
The Canadian Association of Career Educators and Employers (CACEE) is a national non-profit partnership of employer recruiters and career services professionals. Its mission is to provide authoritative information, advice, professional development opportunities and other services to employers, career services professionals and students.
Canadian Association of Municipal Administrators
Category: Essential skills
It is necessary in all fields of endeavour to broaden knowledge beyond one’s immediate experience through the exchange of ideas with those who share the same challenges. The Canadian Association of Municipal Administrators strives to provide professional development in municipal management while making every effort to ensure both short and long-term results for the bottom line of its respective municipalities.
Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers
Categories: Labour market, Learning
The Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers (CASLT) is a not-for-profit professional association dedicated to promoting the advancement of second language teaching and learning.
Canadian Automotive Repair and Service Council (CARS)
Category: Essential skills
The Canadian Automotive Repair and Service (CARS) Council is Canada’s leader in human resource development and training for the automotive repair and service industry. CARS provides human resource and learning tools that are convenient, accessible, fun to use and custom designed for automotive repair. This ensures that employers and professionals who work in this industry can obtain the latest skills as they discover more about the latest technologies and trends.
Canadian Career Development Foundation (CCDF)
Category: Essential skills
The Canadian Career Development Foundation (CCDF) is a non-profit organization that works to advance career services and the capacity of the profession to respond with empathy and skill to their clients and stakeholders in an ever-changing work environment.
Canadian Centre for Financial Literacy (CCFL)
Category: Learning
The Canadian Centre for Financial Literacy (CCFL) is the only Canadian centre that delivers easy-to-use, money management training to low-income groups. It works through partnerships with community-based social agencies in an effort to bring about positive change. CCFL’s goal is to educate Canadians to make informed decisions about their money and the financial resources available to them.
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
Category: Essential skills
The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) is a Canadian federal government agency that supports the vision of eliminating all Canadian work-related illnesses and injuries. The centre’s mission is to be the Canadian centre of excellence for work-related injury and illness prevention initiatives and occupational health and safety information.
Canadian Centre for Research on Literacy
Category: Learning
The Canadian Centre for Research on Literacy (CCRL) is the first formally established academic body in Canada for research on literacy across the continuum from emergent to third-age literacy. CCRL promotes the consolidation of research interests and expertise to create a substantive research focus within the University of Alberta.
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Categories: Essential skills, Labour market
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce is the national leader in public policy advocacy on business issues. Its mission is to foster a strong, competitive and profitable economic environment that benefits, not only business, but all Canadians. In collaboration with its members, the Canadian Chamber acts on policy resolutions, researching and developing strategies on a “best practices” basis for business.
Canadian Child Care Federation
Category: Learning
The overall mission of the Federation is to improve the quality of child care services for Canadian families, by providing information to and facilitating networking among a broad range of target groups; supporting initiatives that increase the skill, expertise and awareness of the target groups in their respective roles in support of improved quality of child care services; and increasing its focus on policy and research.
Canadian Coalition of Community-Based Employability Training (CCCBET)
Category: Essential skills
This coalition is a national, non-profit organization whose membership is comprised of appointees from provincially chartered community-based training associations. Its goal is to help community-based trainers become known world-wide for excellence in client-centred training and employment services.
Canadian Commission for UNESCO
The Commission is an arm's length consultative forum that advises the Canadian Government on its relations with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and co-ordinates UNESCO activities in Canada.
Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women
Category: Learning
A national, feminist organization dedicated to addressing education and training issues for girls and women.
Canadian Council for Aviation & Aerospace
Category: Essential skills
The Canadian Council for Aviation & Aerospace represents and assists Canada’s aviation and aerospace industry with its human resource strategy, issues and solutions. With the participation of industry members, the council develops National Occupational Standards for professional certification and curricula for post-secondary training organizations. The council promotes safety and professionalism; training in Human Factors and Safety Management Systems; individual certification in 24 occupations; and accreditation of training organization programs.
Canadian Council of Human Resources Associations (CCHRA)
Category: Learning
The CCHRA is the national voice on the enhancement and promotion of the HR profession across Canada. Its work is carried out through established and credible designations, collaborating on national issues related to the profession, leading federal government relations, and proactively positioning the national human resources agenda at the international level.
Canadian Council of Professional Fish Harvesters (CCPFH)
Category: Essential skills
The Canadian Council of Professional Fish Harvesters (CCPFH) ensures that fish harvesters have appropriate knowledge, skills and commitment to meet the human resource needs of the Canadian fishery of the future. The CCPFH is governed by a board of directors with representatives from the principal fish harvesters’ organizations in the Atlantic Region, Quebec and British Columbia, First Nations fishers and freshwater fish harvesters.
Canadian Council of Teachers of English Language Arts
The CCTELA is a national organization of affiliates from across Canada dedicated to the teaching and learning of English language arts in Canada.
Canadian Council on Learning (CCL)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
DISBANDED -- The Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) is an independent, non-profit corporation that promotes and supports research to improve all aspects of learning across the country and across all walks of life. CCL has identified five key areas of learning that require attention, and to ensure these areas are addressed from a pan-Canadian perspective CCL has created five regionally based knowledge centres to support these themes.
Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work (CCRW)
Category: Essential skills
The CCRW is a network of organizations and individuals that provides leadership in programs and services for job seekers with disabilities and businesses committed to equity and inclusion. A one-stop shop for disability and employment resources, CCRW works with businesses of all sizes in all industries through its Job Accommodation Service, Skills Training Partnership Program, Partners for Workplace Inclusion Program and the Disability Awareness Series.
Canadian Council on Social Development (CCSD)
The CCSD is one of Canada's most authoritative voices promoting better social and economic security for all Canadians. A national, self-supporting, non-profit organization, the CCSD's main product is information and its main activity is research, focussing on concerns such as income security, employment, poverty, child welfare, pensions and government social policies.
Canadian Council on Social Development / Literacy in the Workplace
Category: Essential skills
The Canadian Council on Social Development is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization, whose research team specializes in social, economic, labour market and demographic issues, and provides statistical and analytical research services to clients. The council’s mission is to develop and promote progressive social policies inspired by social justice, equality and the empowerment of individuals and communities.
Canadian Down Syndrome Society (CDSS)
Category: Learning
The Canadian Down Syndrome Society (CDSS) is a national, non-profit organization whose mission is to enhance the quality of life for all individuals who have Down Syndrome.
Canadian Dyslexia Association
The mandate of the Canadian Dyslexia Association is to promote awareness of dyslexia, and to develop and implement specialized methods, to improve the quality of life of the estimated five million Canadians who have dyslexia.
Canadian Education and Research Institute for Counselling
Categories: Essential skills, Labour market, Learning
The Canadian Education and Research Institute for Counselling (CERIC) is a charitable organization that advances education and research in career counselling and career development. CERIC supports the creation of career counselling-related research and professional development for a cross-sectoral community through funding project partnerships and strategic programs.
Canadian Education Association (CEA)
Category: Learning
The CEA is the network for leaders in education. Leaders depend on us to look at the latest trends and to connect them with the most innovative ideas and important research focussing not only on Canada but internationally as well.
Canadian Evaluation Society (CES)
Category: Essential skills
The Canadian Evaluation Society (CES) is dedicated to the advancement of evaluation theory and practice. With members in every province and territory of Canada, CES offers services such as resource networks, professional development activities and forums for members to explore, discuss and get involved with evaluation interests. The Essential Skills Series of seminars has been refined and continues to be offered through local chapters.
Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Category: Learning
The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences promotes research, scholarship, creative activity and learning. It serves as a national voice and public policy advocate for Canada’s scholars, students and practitioners in the humanities and social sciences.
Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB)
Category: Essential skills
CFIB has been a big voice for small business for over 35 years with over 105,000 members in every sector across Canada. Taking its direction from its members, through regular surveys, the group lobbies for small- and medium-sized businesses at the federal, provincial and local levels of government. It also offers specific initiatives to help members save money, become more competitive and grow their businesses.
Canadian Grocery HR Council
Category: Essential skills
The Canadian Grocery HR Council strives to be a leader in providing credible, research-based human resources tools that help industry members develop a qualified workforce, reduce employee turnover and position the industry as a desirable career choice.
Canadian Hard of Hearing Association (CHHA)
CHHA is a consumer-based organization formed by and for hard of hearing Canadians. CHHA works cooperatively with professionals, service providers and government bodies, and provides information about hard of hearing issues and solutions.
Canadian Hearing Society
The Canadian Hearing Society provides a wide range of services to meet your needs. Services are offered in a fully accessible and supportive environment by professionals experienced in meeting the needs of deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people.
Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials (CICIC)
Category: Essential skills
A unit of the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC), CICIC collects data about procedures for recognizing academic and occupational credentials in different Canadian jurisdictions. This information is stored in a database covering more than 800 professional organizations. In partnership with the provinces and territories, the centre also provides current information about post-secondary education systems in Canada for a variety of users including Canadian missions and evaluation agencies abroad.
Canadian Labour Congress
The Congress is the national voice of the labour movement, that speaks for all workers and their families, in Canada and beyond. They promote decent wages and working conditions, and improved health and safety laws. They lobby for fair taxes and strong social programs, including childcare, medicare and pensions. They lobby for and develop job training and job creation programs. We work for social equality, and to end racism and discrimination.
Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network
This organisation is dedicated to bringing together scientists, clinicians and the literacy and language communities to address a targeted need for Canadian research in Early Childhood Development. The Network organizes Canadian researchers from various disciplines studying early language, communication, and literacy development.
Canadian Library Association (CLA)
The "mission" of the Canadian Library Association is to provide leadership in the promotion, development and support of library and information services in Canada for the benefit of Association members, the profession and Canadian society.
Canadian Literacy and Learning Network
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This national organization promotes literacy and essential skills for English Canadians through networking, research, government liaison and learner development. In addition, through communication and collaboration, it helps to support the people and organizations involved with adult literacy education.
Canadian Literacy Thesaurus
The Canadian Literacy Thesaurus/Thésaurus canadien d'alphabétisation is a bilingual list of standardized vocabulary in the area of adult literacy. Developed in consultation with the Canadian literacy community, both the terminology and structure of the thesaurus reflect the diversity of regional literacy practices and activities across Canada.
Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters
Category: Essential skills
Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, Canada’s largest trade and industry association, promotes the continuous improvement of Canadian manufacturing and exporting through engagement of government at all levels. Its mandate is to promote the competitiveness of Canadian manufacturers and enable the success of Canadian goods and services exporters in markets around the world.
Canadian National Institute For The Blind
Category: Learning
The Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) is a national voluntary agency providing services to individuals across Canada for whom loss of vision is a central problem in personal and social adjustment. The CNIB also acts as a consultant and resource agency to the helping professions, government departments and private industry.
Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE)
The Canadian Association for Distance Education (CADE) and the Association for Media and Technology in Education in Canada (AMTEC) has announced the formation of a new Canadian, bilingual organization committed to excellence in the development, promotion and use of technologies, practices and policies that foster enhanced access to learning for all students.
Canadian Network for Third Age Learning (CATALIST)
CATALIST is a bilingual, Canadian Network of organizations that foster third age learning through shared knowledge, expertise, research, and resources. The network serves to encourage and enhance learning opportunities for all Canadian seniors.
Canadian Organization for Development through Education (CODE)
CODE has been promoting education and literacy in the developing world for more than 40 years. CODE has been recognized by the UNESCO for its ongoing contribution to lasting change in Africa and the Caribbean.
Canadian Plastics Sector Council (CPSC)
Category: Essential skills
The Canadian Plastics Sector Council is a national association created to explore and address emerging human resources issues in the plastics processing industry. A partnership of employers and employees in the industry, the council has identified the following key result areas around which it develops programs and activities: career awareness, promotion and development, labour market research, training and education, job competencies, accreditation, and qualifications recognition.
Canadian Policy Research Networks
Category: Essential skills
DISBANDED -- Canadian Policy Research Networks is a non-profit, charitable policy think tank based in Ottawa. CPRN’s mission is to create knowledge and lead public dialogue and debate on social and economic issues important to the well-being of all Canadians. Its goal is to help make Canada a more just, prosperous and caring society.
Canadian Printing Industries Sector Council (CPISC)
Category: Essential skills
The Canadian Printing Industries Sector Council (CPISC) provides a national forum for collaboration on human resource and workforce development issues within the print and graphics communications industry. CPISC’s mission is to identify and implement human resources and workforce development strategies and initiatives in order to enhance the industry’s public image, make the industry a workplace of choice, and maximize the career potential of every employee.
Canadian Research Institute for Social Policy (CRISP)
Category: Learning
CRISP is a multi-disciplinary research organization dedicated to: conducting policy research aimed at improving the education and care of Canadian children and youth, contributing to the training of social scientists in quantitative research methods, and supporting low-income countries in their efforts to build research capacity in child development. CRISP is based at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) in Fredericton.
Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE)
Category: Learning
The Canadian Society for the Study of Education is the largest organization of professors, students, researchers and practitioners in education in Canada. A bilingual organization, CSSE is the major national voice for those who create educational knowledge, prepare teachers and educational leaders, and apply research in the schools, classrooms and institutions of Canada.
Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE)
The CSSE is the largest organization of professors, students, researchers and practitioners in education in Canada. It is the major national voice for those who create educational knowledge, prepare teachers and educational leaders, and apply research in the schools, classrooms and institutions of Canada.
Canadian Society for Training and Development
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Canadian Society for Training and Development is a national, not-for-profit, membership association serving the field of workplace learning and performance. CSTD has more than 2,000 members drawn from the public, private, non-for-profit and labour sectors. If you are involved in training and development in Canada, CSTD offers you a unique opportunity to stay on top of this dynamic industry.
Canadian Steel Trade and Employment Congress (CSTEC)
Category: Essential skills
CSTEC has developed much of its experience and expertise by helping the Canadian steel industry meet its evolving challenges over the years. It has also worked with a wide range of industries both in Canada and abroad. All of CSTEC's services have been developed with the active participation of the industries and workplaces that CSTEC has worked with and, as a result, its services provide relevant, practical and cost-effective solutions to a wide range of workforce recruitment, development and training needs.
Canadian Supply Chain Sector Council
Category: Essential skills
The Canadian Supply Chain Sector Council brings together partners in the sector to develop solutions to the human resource challenges faced by stakeholders. Recognizing the vital role of the supply chain to Canada’s economy, the council is committed to enhancing the sector’s ability to attract and retain workers at all levels and across the full range of functions, and to advancing the skills of those workers.
Canadian Teachers' Federation (CTF)
Category: Essential skills
The Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF) is a national alliance of provincial/territorial teacher organizations that represent nearly 200,000 elementary and secondary school teachers across Canada. CTF speaks out whenever the interests of teachers and students are at stake. The organization advances teacher interests by holding seminars and conferences on educational issues. As a national clearinghouse for education research, it provides data collection, analyses, and reporting on trends and issues in education to teacher organizations.
Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council (CTHRC)
Category: Essential skills
The Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council (CTHRC) addresses labour market issues and promotes professionalism in the Canadian tourism sector. CTHRC brings together tourism businesses, labour unions, associations, educators and governments to coordinate human resource development activities in support of a globally competitive and sustainable Canadian tourism sector. It is one of 29 national sector councils whose overall goal is to improve the quality of the Canadian labour force, and to assist businesses to be more flexible in meeting changing competitive demands.
Canadian Training Institute
Category: Essential skills
The Canadian Training Institute (CTI) works with those who are often oppressed or dismissed by society. It is committed to fostering inclusivity, equality and life-long learning by enhancing services that help individuals to participate as responsible, valued and contributing members of Canadian society.
Canadian Trucking Human Resources Council (CTHRC)
Category: Essential skills
The Canadian Trucking Human Resources Council works with and on behalf of this vibrant and vital industry. Building on the experience of its members and its own expertise, the CTHRC listens to members’ human resource needs and responds with research, training and advice. It is the foremost resource for information services and solutions related to recruitment and retention, training, and human resources management in the Canadian trucking industry.
Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW)
Category: Essential skills
The general objectives of the CUPW Union Education Program are to give working people the tools they need to critically analyze and make sense of the world in which we live, to develop skills, to instil confidence, and to encourage workers to get involved in change.
Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)
Category: Essential skills
An international literacy study shows that almost half of adult Canadians do not read or write well enough to meet the demands of today’s workplace. As a result, the need for training and upgrading has never been greater. CUPE has a National Literacy Program that aims to: raise awareness about workplace education in CUPE locals, provide workshops and resources to CUPE locals that want to set up workplace education programs and encourage clear language communication at all levels of CUPE.
Canadian Vocational Association (CVA)
Category: Essential skills
CVA is a group of individuals and organizations that actively promote and foster vocational and associated fields of education in Canada. Offering training and certification programs that lead to occupational competence, the association works with private industry and government to respond to changes in education and the needs of education professionals.
Canadian Workplace Skills Strategy (WSS)
Category: Essential skills
To continue to prosper as a nation, Canada must develop value-added activities that focus on innovation, research and worker skills and qualifications. The Workplace Skills Strategy (WSS) aims to improve Canadian economic competitiveness by fostering innovative, productive and inclusive workplaces where workers are encouraged and supported to develop and use their knowledge, skills and abilities.
CanLearn Interactive
CanLearn Interactive is a comprehensive bilingual resource for learning information, products and services to support Canadians in pursuit of learning and career goals.
CanOSH, Canada’s National Occupational Health and Safety Website
Category: Essential skills
The purpose of this website is to enable Canadians to easily and independently locate Canadian occupational safety and health information. Its Education and Training section contains links to educational resources, training programs and courses provided by agencies in various jurisdictions.
Career Mash
Category: Essential skills
This website informs young people, and the adults in their lives, about inspiring technology-related career opportunities. Its multimedia profiles of young tech leaders, innovators, builders and problem-solvers, combined with inspiring learning pathways and daily news feeds, will help students separate fact from fiction.
Centre de documentation sur l'éducation des adultes et la condition féminine (CDÉACF)
Category: Learning
The Centre collects, distributes and makes available diverse information and knowledge from Quebec and other francophone areas of Canada, in the fields of literacy, adult education and the status of women.
Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks (CCLB) is the national standard setting body for the Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB) and Niveaux de compétence linguistique canadiens (NCLC). The CCLB supports and promotes the use of these national standards in educational, training, community and workplace settings.
The Centre for Literacy
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Centre for Literacy is a pan-Canadian, Montreal-based centre of expertise in the areas of adult literacy and essential skills. It supports best practices and informed policy development in literacy by creating bridges between research, policy and practice.
Centre for Research and Information on Canada (CRIC)
The CRIC, established in 1996, manages the Canadian Unity Council (CUC) research and communications activities. It keeps volunteers abreast of Canadians' thinking by constantly tracking and analyzing public opinion about the federation.
Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)
Category: Essential skills
The Centre for the Study of Living Standards is a national, independent, non-profit organization that seeks to contribute to a better understanding of trends in and determinants of productivity, living standards and economic and social well-being through research.
Centre for Workplace Skills
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Centre for Workplace Skills is a business-labour led organization working collaboratively to encourage better participation and investment in skills development in Canada’s workplaces. The Centre promotes and facilitates the exchange of knowledge to address key workplace skills development issues.
CharityVillage.com
Category: Essential skills
Welcome to Main Street at CharityVillage.com, a Canadian website for the non-profit sector. Every day, you'll find more than 3,500 pages of news, jobs, resources, how-to articles, volunteer and event listings, and educational opportunities.
Child Care Human Resources Sector Council (CCSC)
Category: Essential skills
The Child Care Human Resources Sector Council is a pan-Canadian, non-profit organization that addresses pressing human resources issues in the child care sector. Its projects develop research, strategies, and tools to meet the needs of the child care workforce and achieve related goals. The council’s board members work in national or provincial child care or labour organizations, child care centres or their own homes as early childhood educators or employers, post-secondary training institutions or government.
Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
CEP union education provides new members and activists with the basic knowledge and skills they need, helps experienced activists and leaders acquire specialized information and abilities, and fosters a spirit of solidarity and activism.
Conference Board of Canada, The / Education and Learning Department
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The education and learning department helps leaders work together to develop a skilled and innovative society that will prepare Canadians for today’s knowledge-based economy. Members conduct leading-edge research, facilitate dialogue, recognize excellence and communicate results, creating maximum impact and change in Canada’s educational practices and policies.
Connecting the Dots: Improving Accountability in the Adult Literacy Field in Canada
This project will conduct literature and field reviews that link theory with practice; engage providers and funders in regional collaborative action-research projects to develop innovative models of reciprocal accountability. It will also use a two-way communication model to disseminate findings and invite continuous input as a way to share knowledge and build broad support and buy-in.
Consumer Association of Canada
To function well in the marketplace, consumers must not only be able to understand words and messages, but also interpret them for their own use. To help with this, CAC has a National Program on Consumer Literacy.
Contact Centre Canada (CCC)
Category: Essential skills
Contact Centre Canada (CCC) is one of 29 sector councils funded by the Government of Canada’s Sector Council Program. CCC coordinates the customer contact centre industry’s human resources initiatives through the development and implementation of a national, integrated, long-term human resources strategy. The mission of Contact Centre Canada is to contribute to the health and prosperity of the customer contact centre industry and its workforce.
Council for Automotive Human Resources (CAHR)
Category: Essential skills
The Council for Automotive Human Resources partners with industry, labour, educators and government to develop leadership, skills and innovation in the Canadian automotive manufacturing industry. CAHR aims to build competitive advantage through the exemplary attraction, development, retention and management of the automotive manufacturing industry workforce. It is a national leader and supporter of key initiatives dealing with current and future development of skilled human resources for the sector.
Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC)
Category: Learning
The Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC) is an intergovernmental body founded in 1967 by the ministers of education. Its goals are to serve: as a forum to discuss policy issues; a mechanism through which to undertake activities, projects, and initiatives in areas of mutual interest; a means by which to consult and cooperate with national education organizations and the federal government; and an instrument to represent the education interests of the provinces and territories internationally.
Cultural Human Resources Council
Category: Essential skills
The Cultural Human Resources Council (CHRC) strives to be at the centre of vision and forward thinking in the area of cultural human resources development. CHRC brings together representatives of arts disciplines and cultural industries in the cultural sector to address the training and career development needs of employers and cultural workers including artists, technical staff, managers and all others engaged professionally in the sector.
Curriculum Services Canada
Curriculum Services Canada is Canada's leading Standards Agency for the evaluation of educational resources.
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Directory of Canadian Adult Literacy Research in English
Category: Learning
A comprehensive database containing Canadian research in adult literacy from 1994, as well as research in progress.
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ECO (Environmental Careers Organization) Canada
Category: Essential skills
With a solid reputation in the field of human resource management, ECO Canada's services reach all participants of the environmental sector including employers, practitioners, educators and students. ECO Canada offers multimedia career-planning tools such as profiles of environmental professionals, a career-matching tool, and a video library. These tools have been customized to meet the needs of students, mid-career practitioners, and those seeking to explore career options within the environmental profession.
education411.com
Category: Essential skills
Browse schools, programs, articles and more - all matched to your location.
Electricity Sector Council (ESC)
Category: Essential skills
Committed to the research and resolution of human resource and workplace development issues, the Electricity Sector Council has a host of resources for career-seekers, employees and sector stakeholders. The council includes a nation-wide partnership with industry, business, educators, governments and labour to give a collaborative perspective to develop a skilled, safe and sustainable workforce now and in the future.
Employer’s Roadmap
Category: Essential skills
The Employer’s Roadmap is a tool for employers, human resources professionals, recruiters and managers in small to medium-sized enterprises who are interested in hiring internationally trained workers. It addresses questions many employers have such as how to recruit, assess and select these workers. It also includes suggestions on how to integrate and retain them once they become new employees.
Encyclopedia of Language and Literacy Development
Category: Learning
This web-based resource was developed by the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network to help provide answers to questions about children's language and literacy – answers that are based on relevant and up-to-date research presented in an easily accessible format.
ESPORT, the essential skills portfolio
Category: Essential skills
ESPORT is a basic skills assessment and planning tool to help people prepare for entry level occupations. ESPORT with PLATO Essential Skills Online offers a supported learning program tailored to the occupation you choose.
Essential Skills Database - HRSDC
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This database provides detailed information about how Essential Skills are used in particular occupations. If you are exploring career options or considering an enhancement or change in your job, you may find it more useful to consult resources that focus on personal career planning.
Essential Skills in the Gaming Industry
Category: Essential skills
The Developing Essential Skills for the Gaming/Casino Industry in Canada project seeks to increase the essential skill levels of current and prospective gaming employees across Canada. Its focus is on training Aboriginal and new Canadians for the gaming workforce. On this website, you'll find information to help you choose a career, an outline of essential skills required for a variety of casino positions in addition to essential skills workbooks to help you be successful in the industry.
Excellence Canada
Categories: Essential skills, Labour market
Founded in 1992 by Industry Canada, Excellence Canada is an independent, not-for-profit, organization that is committed to advancing organizational excellence across many sectors throughout Canada. As Canada’s national authority on Quality and Healthy Workplace® practices, Excellence Canada has created a uniquely Canadian model, providing measurable standards for all Canadian organizations.
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Family Service Canada
Category: Learning
Family Service Canada is a national not-for-profit organization that promotes learning and the exchange of expertise through the dynamic relationships between executive leaders of family-serving organizations in Canada.
Federated Women's Institutes of Canada
The objectives of this group are to : provide a united national voice for Women's Institutes of Canada; initiate national programs and to provide resource material; provide a medium of inter-communication among the units of the Federation; provide leadership in the promotion of Canadian agriculture and other aspects of community living; develop responsible citizens through the study of issues of national and international importance.
Financial Consumer Agency of Canada
Category: Learning
The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) is an independent body working to protect and inform consumers of financial products and services. The federal government’s lead agency on financial education and literacy, the FCAC was established to strengthen oversight of consumer issues and expand consumer education in the financial sector.
Financial Literacy Month
Category: Learning
Financial Literacy Month (November) is a full month of activities and events that highlight the need for increased financial literacy in Canada, as well as the programs, services and tools that help Canadians improve their knowledge, skills and confidence in making the best financial choices for themselves. The observance is organized by the Financial Literacy Action Group, a coalition of seven non-profit organizations, working in collaboration with the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada.
Food Processing HR Council (FPHRC)
Category: Essential skills
The Food Processing HR Council is the human resources voice for Canadian food processors and manufacturers, focusing on addressing HR requirements, and your ability to face the future confidently in the knowledge that the industry’s workers are at the leading edge. FPHRC monitors the industry’s HR developments and needs, and is a leader in delivering HR information and training tools to support a safe and secure food supply and a viable and competitive food processing sector.
Forest Products Sector Council (FPSC)
Category: Essential skills
The Forest Products Sector Council manages research and other projects that deliver information and analysis on critical human resources issues for the Canadian forest products sector, thereby supporting this sector’s long-term success. Results from these projects will be used to inform sector-wide human resources strategic planning, producing best-practice guides and other tools that can be used readily by business and labour.
Forum for International Trade Training (FITT)
Category: Essential skills
The Forum for International Trade Training (FITT) equips individuals and businesses with the practical skills they need to succeed in today’s competitive global marketplace. An international trade training and professional certification body, FITT sets the standards and designs the training programs for the professional designation, Certified International Trade Professional (CITP). Centred on international trade best practices and delivered by a broad network of educational partners, FITT’s quality training programs impart knowledge and practical skills that trade practitioners can apply immediately.
Frontier College
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Frontier College has been responding to the literacy needs of Canadians since 1899. Its national network of volunteers teaches literacy skills through the Student Centred Individualized Learning method. Other programs include Campus Programs (Students for Literacy) and the Labourer-Teacher Program.
Frontier College New Readers Bookstore
This bookstore has a wide variety of resources for tutors, trainers, teachers and learners. Their booklist contains titles of interest to low literacy readers, titles that support students’ writing skills, dictionaries and reference books for students, Clear and Plain Language Writing tools, resources for volunteer tutors and literacy instructors, and volunteer management resources.
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Getting Online
Category: Learning
Through the GO Project, Athabasca University and its project partners hope to bring about heightened awareness in the literacy community of the use and value of distance and online education for training and professional development purposes. The site includes interactive, online training courses and independent learning modules.
Grass Roots Press
Category: Learning
Grass Roots Press provides a full line of adult literacy resources and materials for practitioners and students. Its catalogue includes family literacy, workplace literacy and adult literacy resources.
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Health and Learning Knowledge Centre
The Centre will bring together experts, educators and policy-makers in selected work groups on a variety of age/life stages and healthy communities of learning, etc.
Helmets to Hardhats: Connecting Veterans to Careers
Category: Essential skills
Helmets to Hardhats (H2H) Canada is a partnership with Canada’s building trades unions, their many employers across Canada, and Government stakeholders. The H2H sister program originated in the United States in 2003, and has been highly successful for America. H2H Canada will follow a similar model, but is focused on career opportunities in Canada for anyone who has served (or is currently serving and looking to transition to a civilian career) in either the Regular or Reserve Force Components of the Canadian Forces.
Hire Immigrants.ca
Category: Essential skills
Hireimmigrants.ca provides businesses with the tools and resources they need to better recruit, retain and promote skilled immigrants. The site also profiles good examples and innovative practices of employers across the country.
HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector
Category: Essential skills
The HR Council for the Nonprofit Sector works with organizations, educators, labour and government to identify and address issues related to paid employment in the voluntary and non-profit sector. Among its priorities are to build and share knowledge, to promote good HR practices and to foster training and learning opportunities.
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
HRSDC works with Canadians to develop policies that will help them use their talents, skills and resources to participate in learning, work and their community. The federal department creates programs and support initiatives to help Canadians move through life's transitions: from school to work, from one job to another, from unemployment to employment, and from the workforce to retirement.
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IALS Institute 2011
Category: Learning
The IALS Fall Institute held in Banff, Alberta, covered, among a wide variety of topics, the history and uses of adult literacy surveys. It also studied the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS), its meaning, and impact for policy and practice from an international perspective. This blog will allow you to review the panel discussions and in doing so learn about approaches to skills assessment and how IALS has influenced literacy programming and instruction.
Independent Living Canada
Independent Living Canada is a national umbrella organization which consists of local autonomous Independent Living Resource Centres (ILRCs). Each ILRC is community-based and controlled by and for persons with disabilities. CAILC is controlled by the individual ILRCs and its responsibilities mainly consist of providing support, training, networking with government and non-government organizations, and information dissemination.
Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC)
Category: Essential skills
The Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) is a not-for-profit sector council dedicated to creating a diverse, prepared and highly educated Canadian ICT industry and workforce.
Institute for Research on Public Policy
Founded in 1972, the IRPP is an independent, national, non-profit organization. Its mission is to improve public policy in Canada by promoting and contributing to a policy process that is more broadly based, informed and effective.
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK), formerly Inuit Tapirisat of Canada, is an advocacy organization and the national voice of 55,000 Inuit living in 53 communities across the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (Northwest Territories), Nunavut, Nunavik (Northern Quebec), and Nunatsiavut (Northern Labrador) land claims regions. Founded in 1971, ITK represents and promotes the interests of Inuit on a wide variety of environmental, social, cultural and political issues and challenges facing Inuit on the national level.
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jennyhorsman.com
Category: Essential skills
Dr. Jenny Horsman is a founding member of Spiral Community Resource Group, community educators engaged in research and writing, curriculum development, training, workshops and facilitation. This is her personal website, "the place where I will post my new writing and where I would still love to read your feedback on my ideas."
Job Forum Canada
This website includes Canadian job market and immigration discussion forums. Find job offers, chat about your first job in Canada, how to write a resume, general immigration questions and find job articles and resources.
John Howard Society of Canada
Category: Essential skills
Their 65 offices across Canada deliver best-practice services to pro-socially integrate persons at the end of their sentence and prevent people from coming into conflict with the law in the first place.
Junior Achievement of Canada
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
For over 55 years, as the largest youth education organization in Canada, Junior Achievement (JA) has been inspiring and preparing more than 4 million youth to succeed in an ever-changing global economy. Last year alone, more than 226,000 students, in 400-plus communities, benefited from JA programs that were delivered by over 13,500 dedicated business mentors who presented in excess of 232,000 hours of instructional time.
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LangCanada - English as a Second Language
Category: Learning
This website contains educational resources which will help teachers, students and adult learners in teaching and learning English as a second official language.
Language & Literacy: A Canadian Educational E-Journal
Language & Literacy is an online journal for educators interested in a broad range of literacy issues encompassing research and teaching in multimedia, print and oracy.
Language Portal of Canada
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Language Portal of Canada is a website that showcases Canadian expertise in the area of language. It informs readers about Canadian resources including online language tools; articles and writing tips; word games and exercises (the Well Written, Well Said section); a collection of links to language-related works and sites (the Discover section); and Canadian writing tools and content produced by governments, universities and others. Information is available in English and French, and in some Aboriginal languages.
Languages Canada
Languages Canada is Canada’s premier language organization representing language programs in both of Canada's official languages: English and French. The voice of the Canadian language training sector, the organization strives to promote quality, accredited English and French language training in Canada, both nationally and internationally.
Lawyers for Literacy
The Lawyers for Literacy Project is an initiative of the Canadian Bar Association BC Branch. It helps lawyers improve their client communications, particularly when their client's literacy skills are not adequate to deal with written material.
Learning and Violence
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This website features practical ideas to make it easier to teach and learn when you or people you work with are faced with violence or hard times. You will also be linked to people and organizations that are exploring violence and learning through research and practice. Most of the information is Canadian and from the adult literacy field.
Learning Disabilities Association of Canada
The LDAC is a national, non-profit voluntary organization which was founded in 1963 and incorporated in 1971. It is dedicated to advance the education, employment, social development, legal rights and general well-being of people with learning disabilities.
Learning for a Sustainable Future
Category: Learning
Learning for a Sustainable Future is a Canadian non-profit organization whose mandate is to work with educators from across Canada to integrate the concepts and principles of sustainable development into the curricula at all grade levels.
Library and Archives Canada
This website provides information about the collection and services of Library and Archives Canada, as well as direct access to their online resources.
Lifelong Learning for Literacy Practitioners (LLLP)
Category: Learning
The LLLP website offers valuable information, resources and links to support literacy practitioners in their ongoing training and learning needs. If you are new to the literacy field or if you are an experienced practitioner, the LLLP website has tools, resources and training links to enhance your skills.
Literacy and Essential Skills Toolkit
Category: Essential skills
The Literacy and Essential Skills Toolkit is a series of free and easy-to-use tools from HRSDC's Office of Literacy and Essential Skills that help address different literacy and essential skills challenges. The Toolkit offers support in the areas of awareness, assessment, learning and training.
Literacy and the police: Target crime with literacy
This project aims to make police officers more aware of the nature of the problems caused by low literacy in the community; of the contribution of literacy training to crime prevention and lower recidivism; of the effects of literacy deficits in the criminal justice system; and of the challenges to successful communication caused by low literacy.
Literacy Without Borders
Category: Learning
Literacy Without Borders (LWB) is a federally incorporated charity that helps communities identify, develop and deploy sustainable and effective literacy programs that improve quality of life for their people. Based in Edmonton, Alberta, LWB brings together compassionate individuals who believe in the value of literacy and who want to help communities around the world achieve the levels of literacy that they desire.
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Media Awareness Network (MNet)
Category: Learning
Media Awareness Network (MNet) is a Canadian not-for-profit centre for digital and media literacy. Its vision is that young people have the critical thinking skills to engage with media as active and informed digital citizens. MNet's programs are funded by sponsors, donors and partners that include: TELUS
• Google
• Canadian Internet Registration Authority
• Bell
• Shaw
• Bell Media
• NFB.
Mining industry Human Resources Council (MiHR)
Category: Essential skills
MiHR’s approach to addressing the human resources challenges in the Canadian mining industry is simple, yet innovative and highly effective: work together, bring the best ideas to the table for the benefit of all, and utilize available resources wisely. This process promotes the sharing of best practices, leveraging of programs that work, and working together on common challenges. By working with MiHR, you are choosing to collaborate with other industry stakeholders in developing targeted solutions that will benefit your organization and the mining industry as a whole.
Motor Carrier Passenger Council of Canada (MCPCC)
Category: Essential skills
The focus of the Motor Carrier Passenger Council of Canada is on identifying and addressing human resources issues within the motor carrier passenger industry. In partnership with Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, the council provides counsel, products and services which promote life-long learning and skills development for individuals and companies in this industry.
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National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation (NAAF)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
NAAF is a charitable organization dedicated to raising funds for programs that provide the tools necessary for Aboriginal peoples, especially youth, to achieve their potential. The foundation, through its education program, has awarded scholarships and bursaries to more than 9,800 First Nations, Inuit and Métis students nationwide.
National Adult Literacy Database Inc.
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
NALD is a comprehensive, up-to-date and easily accessible database of literacy and essential skills-related classroom and research materials that are available free to download. NALD also functions as a portal to adult literacy resources and services across Canada.
National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS)
The National Educational Association of Disabled Students is a consumer organization, with a mandate to encourage the self-empowerment of post-secondary students with disabilities. NEADS advocates for increased accessibility at all levels so that disabled students may gain equal access to college or university education, which is their right.
National Life / Work Centre (NLWC)
Category: Essential skills
NLWC brings world-class life/work development programs to the widest possible audiences through innovative partnerships with public and private sector agencies across Canada and internationally. The objective is to help people of all ages become self-reliant, make informed choices and find satisfying and fulfilling work and lifestyles in today’s rapidly changing labour markets.
National Reading Campaign
Category: Learning
In 2008 a group of volunteers, including writers, teachers, librarians, parents and publishers, got together to talk about a nationwide way to make Canada a country of readers. The group has grown and organized three national summits which provided an opportunity to learn about the national reading plans around the world, to discuss the best of the many innovative programs already in place in Canada, and to use this information as a base for developing a National Reading Plan. What have you read today?
National Seafood Sector Council
Category: Essential skills
The National Seafood Sector Council is a unique partnership, bringing together employers, employees, unions, associations, regulatory agencies and private trainers to work toward one common goal: a strong and prosperous seafood processing industry created by a well-trained and productive workforce. To help meet its goals, the council has an essential skills website in addition to a career focus program for youth.
The Neil Squire Society
The Neil Squire Society developed innovative programs and services and some of the world's leading edge adaptive technology for people with severe physical disabilities. Over 5,000 disabled people in Canada have benefitted from the work of the Society.
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Office of Literacy and Essential Skills
Category: Essential skills
This website houses information about essential skills, literacy levels in Canada and links to various publications. It also outlines HRSDC’s Workplace Skills Initiative that provides funding to organizations for projects that address skills shortages or work to increase labour market participation and performance.
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Partnerships in Learning
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This website looks at the learning paths of workers with low literacy skills in different types of workplace education programs across Canada. The site features seven case studies written by field researchers and whose stories represent the relatedness of formal and informal training for workers with low skills. The section Fostering Partnership Development examines strategies used to engage business, labour, literacy practitioners and provincial/ territorial governments.
Persons With Disabilities Online
This is a site where persons with disabilities, their family members, caregivers and service providers can access a full range of information on disability-related programs and services in Canada.
Petroleum Human Resources Council of Canada
Category: Essential skills
The Petroleum Human Resources Council of Canada is a collaborative forum that addresses human resources issues within the petroleum industry. Those issues include: access to under-represented workers – immigrants, women and Aboriginals; skills shortages and retaining older workers; labour market information gaps; shifting skill requirements; essential skills and links to safety and retention; mobility of the workforce; creative human resources practices; education and promotion of careers within the industry.
PGIs for Literacy
Category: Learning
The Peter Gzowski Invitationals (PGIs) for Literacy were founded by the late Canadian broadcaster and journalist Peter Gzowski. His goals were to raise much-needed resources for the thousands of adult learners who struggle with the challenge of low literacy, and have a lot of fun in the process. Held annually in every province and territory, the PGIs have raised more than $12 million net since 1986.
Police Sector Council
Category: Essential skills
The Police Sector Council is a centre for HR information, tools and networks. It supports horizontality in policing: a vision of a sector that is informed about HR issues and challenges, integrated in HR planning and management, and aligned and networked to improve policing sector-wide. The council’s mandate is to enable Canadian policing organizations, partners and stakeholders to implement innovative, practical solutions to human resource planning and management challenges.
Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition
This site is being provided to you by the Canadian Labour Force Development Board as part of its ongoing efforts to promote the effective, efficient and equitable implementation of PLAR throughout Canada. Key purposes of the site are to provide a clearing house of resources and information on PLAR; generate discussion on PLAR-related issues; and expose interested persons and organizations to the CLFDB's own work in the area.
Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a project of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) designed to provide policy-oriented international indicators of the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students. PISA aims to assess to what degree students approaching the end of their compulsory education have acquired some of the knowledge and skills that are essential for full participation in society.
Project Aspiro
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Project Aspiro is a comprehensive career planning and employment resource for individuals who are blind or partially sighted. You’ll find everything you need to achieve your career goals including career planning advice, information about education, profiles of people enjoying meaningful careers, and much more. There’s also a range of valuable information for friends and family, service providers and employers.
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Reach Canada
The mission of this group is to improve the quality of life for citizens with disabilities by offering lawyer referral and educational services at the community level.
Recognition for Learning (RFL)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Recognition for Learning (RFL) is the Canadian Association for Prior Learning Assessment’s (CAPLA’s) online community of practice dedicated to the recognition of prior learning (RPL) or prior learning assessment and recognition (PLAR). CAPLA is the national voice for prior learning assessment and recognition in Canada. Its goals are to advance the assessment and recognition of learning and promote the improvement of RPL/PLAR practice in Canada.
Red Seal: The Interprovincial Standards Program
Category: Essential skills
The Red Seal Program is recognized as the interprovincial standard of excellence in the skilled trades. Through the program, tradespersons are able to obtain a Red Seal endorsement on their provincial/territorial certificates by successfully completing an interprovincial Red Seal examination. The program acknowledges their competence and ensures recognition of their certification throughout Canada without further examination.
Réseau pour le développement de l'alphabétisme et des compétences (RESDAC)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Formerly the Fédération canadienne pour l’alphabétisation en français (FCAF), RESDAC groups together francophone literacy organizations in different areas of Canada. The organization helps to develop essential skills by offering a variety of activities for representation, awareness and promotion. It also offers practitioner training through its Réseau des formatrices et formateurs en éducation des adultes (network for practitioners in adult education).
Roots of Empathy
Roots of Empathy is an evidence-based classroom program that has shown dramatic effect in reducing levels of aggression and violence among school children while raising social/emotional competence and increasing empathy.
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SchoolFinder.com
A Canadian education guide to universities, colleges and career colleges. This site allows you to search over 600 schools and find detailed descriptions of admissions requirements, costs, programs, and contact information for each school.
Service Canada Education and Training
Category: Essential skills
This Service Canada site provides information about education and training services for Canadians including aboriginal peoples, newcomers to the country, families and children, people with disabilities, veterans, youth and students. The site includes links to information on employment and how to start a business.
Service Canada Training, Career and Worker Information
Category: Essential skills
Service Canada helps workers look at their skills and interests, examine the world of work, make a plan for the future and manage their careers. It also outlines training options and workers’ rights and benefits.
Social and Holistic Approach to Numeracy
Category: Learning
This website was prepared as part of a two-year project led by the Labour Education Centre in partnership with the Canadian Union of Public Employees and Workplace Education Manitoba. Features include sample activities developed by practitioners and the team leading the project in addition to practitioner and learner feedback on the benefits and challenges of using this approach to numeracy.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Category: Essential skills
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) is an arm’s-length federal agency that promotes and supports university-based research and training in the social sciences and humanities. SSHRC-funded research fuels innovative thinking about real life issues, including the economy, working, education, health care, the environment, immigration, globalization and language.
Statistics Canada
Categories: Labour market, Learning
Statistics Canada, a member of the Industry Portfolio, produces statistics that help Canadians better understand their country — its population, resources, economy, society and culture.
Storysacks CANADA
Category: Learning
Storysacks are a fun, exciting literacy activity for parents and children to share. They can be used anywhere: in homes, libraries, schools, churches, children's groups, prisons, volunteer organizations - basically any place where children and adults are together.
STP: Skills Training Partnership
Category: Essential skills
A Skills Training Partnership is a unique project designed to assist employers in developing training programs that prepare qualified job seekers with disabilities for employment. A creation of the Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work, this website offers employers, community agencies and persons with disabilities the tools needed for getting started, information about best practices and project/job search support.
Studentawards.com
Category: Learning
This free scholarship search tool helps bridge the gap between financially needy students and available money. Studentawards.com matches a student's profile with financial awards he/she is eligible for (scholarships, bursaries, etc.) and provides information on application details and procedures.
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Teacher of Adults: Literacy Educator Certificate Program
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Certificate Program has been designed to address the training needs of adult literacy educators. Whether you are new to the literacy field or a "seasoned" practitioner, you will find these courses challenging and stimulating. The Certificate Program will give you the opportunity to gain the skills and knowledge to meet the needs of today’s adult literacy learners.
TESL Canada
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
TESL Canada's mission is to promote excellence in the teaching and learning of English as a second or additional language in partnership with its constituent provincial and territorial associations, and like-minded national and international organizations.
Textiles Human Resources Council (THRC)
Category: Essential skills
The Textiles Human Resources Council (THRC) develops innovative training and education solutions to respond to established and emerging human resources needs. A flexible and highly skilled workforce remains a major competitive advantage for textile manufacturers. The THRC works to enhance the industry’s image to attract young people, foster a continuous learning environment and develop innovative skills enhancement programs.
The WORK Place.ca (Government of Canada)
Category: Essential skills
The WORK Place is a one-stop labour market information resource that delivers access to quality information in a compact and easily navigable format. Its objective is to provide access to information that can help individuals grow and compete in the labour market. The site offers an extensive listing of job and work opportunities.
Training and Careers
Category: Essential skills
This section of canada.gc.ca is for people looking for work, exploring career options, developing a learning plan or dealing with a workplace issue. It contains tools such as a job search mechanism covering multiple databases and a resume builder.
Tutela.ca
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Tutela.ca is a national online repository and community for Canadian ESL and FSL professionals. As a repository, it contains learning activities, worksheets, templates, teacher training resources, curriculum guidelines, policy and management documents, research papers and more. As a community, Tutela offers interactive technologies to support ongoing collaboration and sharing, and builds community through special interest groups, a calendar of events, survey tools, postings of training/job opportunities, wikis and news feeds.
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United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Canada
Category: Essential skills
UFCW Canada’s national training and education department offers up-to-date, relevant and job-specific training. Facilitators have the ability to keep members informed about the most recent challenges and changes workforce membership may be facing. UFCW training ranges from hands-on skills upgrades to basic skills such as literacy, English as a second language and computer foundations.
United Nations Association in Canada
UNA-Canada is a national non-profit organization promoting UN programmes and activities within Canada. The Association offers individual Canadians a window into the work of the UN, and a channel through which to become engaged in the critical international issues affecting us all.
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Vanier Institute of the Family
Category: Learning
The Vanier Institute of the Family, established in 1965 under the patronage of Governor General Georges P. Vanier and Madame Pauline Vanier, is a national, charitable organization dedicated to promoting the well-being of Canadian families. It is governed by a volunteer board with regional representation from across Canada.
Voluntary Sector Initiative (VSI)
Category: Essential skills
The VSI is a joint initiative to strengthen the capacity of the voluntary sector and to enhance the relationship between the sector and the Government of Canada.
Volunteer Canada
Category: Essential skills
Volunteer Canada is the national voice for volunteerism in Canada. Since 1977, the organization has been committed to increasing and supporting volunteerism and civic participation through ongoing programs, special projects and national initiatives, by developing resources and by engaging in research and training across the country.
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Wood Manufacturing Council (WMC)
Category: Essential skills
The Wood Manufacturing Council is working to address the human resource development needs of firms involved in the advanced manufacturing of wood products. The council works to identify and examine the necessary skills and knowledge required to respond to the changing needs of the industry. It also has an overall strategic plan to address key issues such as the shortage of skilled workers and the need for national standards for worker competencies.
Words at Large
CBC’s Words at Large is a destination for Canadians where they can take a journey into the world of books, poetry, drama, literature, literacy and much more. It is a web portal which provides access to radio programming, podcasts, a blog, lists and information that will entertain and inform you on the written word in Canada and around the world.
Working in Canada
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This website provides job seekers, workers and those new to the Canadian labour market with the information required to make informed decisions about where to live and work. The site informs Canadians about what jobs will be required in the long term and what the skills/educational requirements will be for those jobs.
WORKink
Category: Essential skills
WORKink is an extensive online career development and employment portal for Canadians with disabilities. The site provides job search tools, career guidance and resources pertaining to education and employment. Whether you are a job-seeker, employer or career practitioner, WORKink outlines options and materials that are available to help you meet your needs.
Workplace Institute
Category: Essential skills
The Workplace Institute is a centre of excellence highlighting older worker/aging workforce information and customized solutions for an intergenerational workforce. It provides consulting, research development, training and education on the most pressing issues faced by employers and workers.
Worksearch
This site is designed to help people explore their career and work options. The main part of Worksearch includes seven topic areas that all have to do with completing a successful search for work. Each topic area has information that can help you to find the work you are looking for.
World Education Services
Category: Essential skills
World Education Services (WES) is a leading source of international education intelligence. A not-for-profit organization with over 30 years of experience evaluating international credentials, WES provides more than 50,000 evaluations each year that are accepted by thousands of academic institutions, employers, licensing and certification boards, and government agencies in the U.S. and Canada.
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