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Essential Skills Ontario
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Essential Skills Ontario (ESO) is a non-profit organization that works to find the most innovative, efficient and effective solutions that provide adults with the skills they need to thrive in a rapidly changing world. The organization believes that education and training are pathways to a better future for many adults and that by advancing the skills of Ontarians, ESO is advancing the health of families, communities and the long-term economy.
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A Commitment to Training and Employment for Women (ACTEW)
Category: Essential skills
ACTEW is an umbrella group of agencies and programs delivering employment and training services to women in Ontario. It distributes information regarding labour force development policy, consults with various levels of government and advocates for women’s access to quality employment and training services.
Action for Family Literacy Ontario
Category: Learning
AFLO works with local and regional programs to build a connected framework of family literacy practitioners and to strengthen communication and linkages within the family literacy community. This includes information sharing, referrals, providing resources, and creating a forum for discussion.
Action Read Community Literacy Centre
Category: Learning
Action Read offers adults help with reading, writing, and basic math. Adults can also learn how to use computers. Staff help adults assess their reading level, set their own goals, and then create their training plans. Staff can also offer information about other educational programs and services.
Adult Basic Education Association
Category: Learning
This organization develops and plans literacy services and promotes lifelong learning in the community.
Adult Learning Centres : Grey-Bruce-Georgian
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Adult Learning Centres help adults achieve the math, writing and reading skills they need for work and to fully enjoy the community. The services are free and confidential.
Adult Learning Programs of Perth
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Adult Learning Programs of Perth are community-based agencies funded by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. They provide service to anyone 19 years of age or older, currently not enrolled in any credit program, who wants to improve his/herr essential skills or to work toward receiving a Grade 12 equivalency (GED). The program’s services are provided at no cost to learners.
Adult Literacy Council of Greater Fort Erie (ALC)
Category: Learning
The mission of the ALC is to promote literacy in the community, and to provide one-on-one tutoring in reading, writing, math, and ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) to adults, in a confidential environment, so they may participate in and take full advantage of the opportunities within their community.
Algonquin College
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Besides Literacy and Basic Skills programs, this college offers full-time programs in the areas of information technology, health care, community services, and business. It also offers a wide variety of courses on a part-time basis. The college develops and delivers customized courses and programs to agencies, business and industry in the Ottawa Valley.
AlphaPlus
Category: Learning
AlphaPlus is an Ontario-funded organization that provides expertise to support adult educators. It does this through disseminating research, information and training involving innovative learning technologies – what technologies to use, how to use them, and when to use them. The work informs practitioners, literacy organizations and agencies on tools and best practices which results in more effective training of adult learners.
ALSO - Alternative Learning Styles and Outlooks
Category: Learning
Among the programs offered at ALSO are: Adult Literacy, Family Literacy, Computer Skills. Adults can upgrade their literacy skills in a small community-based setting. Teachers work one-on-one with students and together develop personalized learning plans, as students work at their own pace.
ARCH: A Legal Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities
Category: Learning
Founded in 1980, ARCH: A Legal Resource Centre for Persons with Disabilities is a community-based, not-for-profit legal clinic and legal resource centre for the Province of Ontario, dedicated to defending and advancing the equality-rights of persons with disabilities.
Atikokan Literacy Incorporated
Category: Learning
Atikokan Literacy Incorporated’s Adult Learning Centre provides free, confidential tutoring for adults who want to improve their life and learning skills. This organization works to meet the needs of both the individual learner and the community.
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Barrie Literacy Council
Category: Learning
The council's goal is to help adults in the community to: improve their basic reading, writing, and math skills, use these skills in everyday living, reach their own goals and improve their self-esteem.
BNR Online Training
Category: Essential skills
Bright Training & Safety Wear, occupational health and safety training consultants, is an independent organization that has access to years of workplace training and consulting expertise. The BRight Group has joined forces with a number of independent professionals to assist companies with effective training for employees who may have difficulty reading and writing.
Brant Skills Centre
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Brant Skills Centre (formerly the Literacy Council of Brantford & District) is committed to helping adults improve their literacy and essential skills so they may increase their independence, go on to further education and training, or obtain and maintain employment.
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Cambrian College
Category: Learning
Cambrian College is one of the 24 colleges of applied arts and technology that comprise the Ontario College System. It offers about 105 full-time programs, eight of which are designed specifically for the Native community, and more than 800 part-time continuing education programs, courses, seminars, customized training packages, and distance education opportunities.
Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials/ Postsecondary Education in the Provinces and Territories
Category: Essential skills
CICIC is a unit of the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC). It offers information on working in Canada and a listing of post-secondary education institutions for all provinces and territories. This page takes the viewer to a clickable map with links to educational system directories, information for international students, student tools and other government resources.
Canadore College
Category: Learning
The college offers a personalized environment where students can excel in smaller than average classes and where they’ll have their own academic advisor. It offers many different programs: Full-time or part-time, Apprenticeship Training, Continuing Education, Customized Training, Preparatory Studies, etc.
Career Bookmarks
Category: Essential skills
Career Bookmarks, based at the Toronto Public Library, is an online gateway to job- and career-related information that has been organized according to the career-planning and job-search process. Bringing together Internet and library resources, the site encourages users to develop their own 'filebox' or customized list of resources.
Catalyst Centre Popular Education Foundation (CCPEF)
Category: Learning
The CPPEF promotes innovation in adult learning and advances adult education. They manage a large collection of popular and adult education materials (curricula, lesson plan, activity descriptions and more).
Centennial College
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Centennial’s full-time and continuing education programs are designed to help students succeed in today’s job market. If you have found it difficult to find employment that matches your education and skills, Centennial College offers short-duration, fast-track programs of interest to internationally trained individuals. Most of the courses offered at Centennial can be customized to meet the specific needs of any workforce.
Centre for Community Learning & Development
Category: Learning
The mission of this group is to creating a strong culture of community engagement through capacity-building, progressive learning and innovative training.
Centre for Education and Training
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Centre for Education & Training is a not-for-profit corporation that enhances the self-sufficiency and effectiveness of individuals and organizations. A leader in educational curriculum development, professional development and learning solutions, the centre offers customized education, training and career resource solutions.
The Centre for Employment and Learning
Category: Essential skills
The Centre for Employment and Learning is committed to learners – those workers who require employment counselling, customized training or upgrading in their literacy and basic skills. The centre also offers services such as assessment, career planning and instruction in English as a Second Language.
Centre for Expertise in Family Literacy
Category: Learning
This site is designed to provide information and resource support for anyone interested in family literacy in the Eastern Ontario region. It gives an overview of current Family Literacy Programs in the region. As well, there is general information on the different types of Family Literacy Programs.
Centre for Research on Work and Society
Category: Essential skills
The Centre for Research on Work and Society at York University addresses the issues facing labour that arise from the current volatile political transformation of the Canadian world of work. The centre believes a culture of union-university-community research partnerships needs to be fostered to address the climate of rapid restructuring that exists within work and civil society.
The Centre for Skills Development & Training
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Centre for Skills Development & Training has been a provider of quality career and workforce development programs in the Halton region and surrounding areas since 1988. Its services include academic and language skills upgrading, career planning, managerial skills development and training in pre-apprenticeship trades, information technology and workplace communication.
CESBA (Ontario Association of Adult & Continuing Education School Board Administrators)
Category: Learning
CESBA's objective is to promote and advance the cause of adult and continuing education. The CESBA Literacy Committee coordinates Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) programs offered by Catholic and public school boards across Ontario.
Clear Language And Design (CLAD)
Category: Learning
Clear Language and Design (CLAD) is a public education program of the Toronto East End Literacy Project, a non-profit organization that helps adults learn to read and write, and educates the public about literacy issues. CLAD provides editing and consulting on a fee for service basis.
Collège Boréal
Category: Learning
Collège Boréal answers to the education and training needs of francophones in the mid-southwest and Northern Ontario, based on community strengths and decentralization. It offers programs and services that are flexible and adapted to the realities of today's world, in a climate that is conducive to learning and work.
College Sector Committee for Adult Upgrading (CSC)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
In addition to preparing students for post-secondary and apprenticeship training, Ontario college programs are also increasingly focusing on helping them move successfully into employment. This portion of the website is dedicated to sharing resources that colleges have developed to promote and deliver workforce and workplace preparation. The website also has a number of links to other resources including links to essential skills materials.
Common Assessment of Basic Skills (CABS)
Category: Learning
Seventy-nine demonstrations from the CABS (Common Assessment of Basic Skills) manual have been recreated on this website to provide a practical assessment tool for use with Literacy/Basic Skills students who can work on computers. Approximately 15 assessment activities at each of the five levels address important reading, writing, numeracy and basic computer skills outcomes in integrated formats.
Community Employment Resource Centre (CERC)
Category: Essential skills
The Community Employment Resource Centre (CERC) is a not-for-profit community-based organization with over 26 years of providing high-quality employment services to the Ottawa community. CERC serves all Ontario residents who are looking for employment and training as well as Ontario employers seeking candidates to fill positions.
Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO)
Category: Learning
Founded in 1974, CLEO specializes in public legal education and information, primarily through the production of printed materials. CLEO's publications are written largely but not only for the low income community. By describing the law as simply and clearly as possible, these materials help readers understand and exercise their legal rights.
Community Literacy of Ontario
Category: Learning
This is an organization that exists to support and promote English language community-based literacy programs in Ontario through consultation, information sharing and program support.
Conestoga College
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The college offers more than 60 career-related, skills-oriented programs. Its programs in engineering technology, business and business administration, information technology, communications and media, health sciences, community services and the skilled trades are well recognized.
Confederation College
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Its mission is to provide excellent, accessible, learner-centred education connecting learners, the communities of Northwestern Ontario, and the global workplace.
Contact North
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The mission of Contact North/Contact Nord is to increase and improve affordable and equitable access to quality education and training for Northern Ontario residents, to support regional and community economic development and to promote a culture of lifelong learning.
Council of Elizabeth Fry Societies of Ontario
Category: Learning
The Council of Elizabeth Fry Societies of Ontario (CEFSO) is the provincial voice for the ten Elizabeth Fry Societies in Ontario. CEFSO is the Regional Advocate for federally sentenced women in Ontario. It monitors the conditions for both provincially and federally sentenced women in prison.
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Deaf Literacy Initiative
Category: Learning
The Deaf Literacy Initiative is a provincial umbrella organization that provides accessible and culturally relevant training, research, networking and resources to the deaf and deaf-blind literacy community in Ontario.
Demonstrations Ontario
Category: Learning
This site is designed to assist Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) Program delivery agencies in Ontario to develop and apply learning outcomes demonstrations.
Durham College
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Durham College has over 80 different full-time programs focused on specific jobs and employer demand. Courses are developed in conjunction with advisory committees that include business and industry experts who bring a real-life perspective to students’ academic experiences.
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East Parry Sound Literacy Council
Category: Learning
This group provides free one-on-one tutoring and small group classes to adults in various locations throughout East Parry Sound.
East York Learning Experience
Category: Learning
This is a non-profit adult literacy program serving East York, parts of east Toronto, and west Scarborough. Their objective is to reduce the social and economic barriers of adult literacy students.
Education at Work Ontario
Category: Essential skills
Education at Work Ontario (EWO) strives to promote and foster co-operative education of the highest quality, while ensuring an integral partnership involving students, employers and post-secondary educational institutions. EWO has a membership of over 180 co-op educators, working with more than 40,000 co-op students, at 37 colleges and universities.
Elgin Middlesex Oxford Workforce Planning and Development Board
Category: Essential skills
Workforce Planning Boards gather intelligence about the supply of labour and the demand side of the local labour market by working with employers to identify and meet their current and emerging skills needs. The Elgin Middlesex Oxford Workforce Planning and Development Board is one of 25 organizations across the province forming the Workforce Planning Ontario network.
EmployerRegistry.ca
Category: Essential skills
EmployerRegistry.ca is Ontario’s free online community connecting employers and tomorrow’s workforce. Developed in 2008, the bilingual site acts as a single point of contact for employers looking to get involved with short, medium and long-term educational programs, ranging from one-hour career talks to full-semester cooperative education.
Employment and Education Centre
Category: Essential skills
The Employment & Education Centre is a not-for-profit agency that helps individuals reach their potential through education, employment, volunteering and financial counselling. The centre’s services are designed to give people the training and/or experience they need to become employable.
Employment Ontario
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
With services right across Ontario available to assist you, Employment Ontario will help you get the training, skills and experience you need to achieve your goals. Through this website people looking for work are connected with employers looking for workers. Links will also take you to labour market information, post-secondary education options, and the Ontario job bank. The toll-free number for Employment Ontario is 1-800-387-5656.
English Language Tutoring for the Ottawa Community (ELTOC)
Category: Learning
ELTOC provides home tutoring for adult immigrants who cannot attend regular English programs. Once a week, students receive free, one-on-one instruction in their homes by volunteer tutors. Emphasis is given to practical English skills that allow newcomers to integrate into Canadian life.
Enhancing Pathways
Category: Learning
This site provides information about supporting and facilitating service coordination between adult literacy and language programs within various communities.
Eskilon Learning Solutions Inc.
Category: Essential skills
Eskilon Learning provides a suite of software and courseware tools and resources for young adult and adult education in areas such as essential skills upgrading, employment readiness, apprenticeship preparation, literacy, GED and college preparation. Eskilon is located in Ontario but serves clients from across Canada.
Essential Skills for Ontario Tradespeople
Category: Essential skills
Studies show that apprentices are eight times more likely to succeed in the trades if they have the essential skills they need. This website helps you build these skills. It gives you the opportunity to: research essential skills for 53 Red Seal trades, take online assessments to see how your skills measure up, and build your skills with customized learning plans using free online materials.
Essential Skills for the Changing Workplace
Category: Essential skills
The Essential Skills for the Changing Workplace Project offers small and medium-sized employers free seminars and consulting services to help them develop their employee skill levels and ultimately improve the efficiency and productivity of their organizations. An initiative of the Centre for Education and Training, the project is designed to help workplaces integrate essential skills into their human resources practices. This project was completed in 2010.
Essential Skills Ontario
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Essential Skills Ontario (ESO) is a non-profit organization that works to find the most innovative, efficient and effective solutions that provide adults with the skills they need to thrive in a rapidly changing world. The organization believes that education and training are pathways to a better future for many adults and that by advancing the skills of Ontarians, ESO is advancing the health of families, communities and the long-term economy.
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Fanshawe College
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Fanshawe College has a community focus. Committed to personal, social and economic success through quality education and learning for employment, the college strives to enrich the lives of individuals and meet the changing needs of diverse communities.
Festival of Literacies
Category: Learning
The Festival of Literacies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) is a meeting ground for diverse literacy communities. It coordinates credit and non-credit courses, online and on campus. Another aspect is the Research-in-Practice, such as research in Aboriginal Literacy. As well, the site has a list of speakers and events for the upcoming academic year.
First Nations Technical Institute (FNTI)
Category: Essential skills
First Nations Technical Institute (FNTI), an Aboriginal-owned and controlled post-secondary institute, was created in 1985, through innovative and dynamic partnerships, to provide access to post-secondary programs for Aboriginal people. Currently there are over 300 post-secondary students and adult learners from across the country enrolled in capacity-building programs at FNTI.
Frontier College: Students for Literacy at U of T
Category: Learning
Frontier College is a national volunteer-based literacy organization. Students for Literacy provides volunteer university students to teach reading and writing to youth and adult learners.
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George Brown College
Category: Learning
This is a college with high-quality, career-focused programs, with three campuses at the heart of downtown Toronto. Some of the full-time program subject areas are: Access & Preparation for College & University, Business and Finance, Community Services, Early Childhood Development, etc.
Georgian College
Category: Learning
The college offers a full range of programs in Business and Computer Studies, General Studies, Design and Visual Arts, Health Sciences and Human Services, Hospitality and Tourism, etc.
Get Set Learn
Category: Learning
They provide their “Let’s Play Literacy” booklet to parents and others who are looking for literacy tips. The 16-page booklet contains information to make literacy play fun and interactive for babies to preschoolers. It includes the following topics: 3 key literacy messages, helping your child when you are not a good reader, reading with your child, choosing books for different ages, getting ready for literacy, talking to the school, and activities for babies, infants, toddlers and preschoolers.
Golden Oak Adult Literacy Book Club
Category: Learning
The Golden Oak reading program, sponsored by the Ontario Library Association, provides a unique opportunity for adult literacy learners to read books for pleasure. In addition to discussing the books with their tutors or in their local reading group, learners can join online discussions about any of the books.
Good Learning Anywhere - Sioux Hudson Literacy Council
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Good Learning Anywhere provides free online distance learning opportunities for adult learners in Ontario to assist them in upgrading their reading, writing, math, computer and other Essential Skills.
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Haldimand Norfolk Literacy Council
Category: Learning
Their objective is to assist adults to improve their reading, writing and math skills. In addition to providing one to one confidential tutoring to adult students, small group lessons are also available.
Hamilton & District Literacy Council
Category: Learning
This is a free and confidential community-based literacy program serving the Hamilton-Wentworth region. It provides one-to-one reading, writing and math services for adults.
Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board - Continuing Education
Category: Learning
This section of the School Board offers courses in literacy, numeracy, Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC), Computer Courses, and more.
Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Humber offers over 350 full-time and part-time post-secondary education programs, customized corporate training and business-to-business partnerships. It strives for an open, respectful and welcoming educational environment that is responsive to the needs of the students, faculty, staff, the community and the nation.
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Inclusion Press International
Category: Learning
Inclusion Press is a small independent press striving to produce readable, accessible and user-friendly books and resources about full inclusion in school, work and community.
Independent Learning Centre
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Independent Learning Centre (ILC) is mandated by the government of Ontario as the designated provider of distance education and GED testing. ILC’s credit and non-credit courses and educational services enable students to: earn a high school diploma or the equivalent, upgrade their skills and achieve their academic and career goals.
In My Language
Category: Essential skills
InMyLanguage.org provides multilingual information for newcomers to Ontario. Categories include immigrating, work, housing, health, education, legal matters and daily life. Funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada, the site was developed by the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants.
Iroquois Falls and Cochrane Adult Learning Centre
Category: Learning
The A.L.C. is a community based, Literacy and Basic Skills program that assists adults improve their reading, writing, math, computer, and communication skills for employment, further education and training, and/or personal goals.
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JobStart
Category: Essential skills
JobStart is a community-based, not-for-profit agency helping experienced workers, newcomers to Canada and youth overcome challenges in order to reach their employment goals. This site contains information to help employers and job seekers reach their objectives.
John Howard Society of Ontario
Category: Learning
The John Howard Society of Ontario is a registered charity working to develop and promote just, humane and effective responses to crime and its causes in the community. Their 17 branches and affiliates provide a wide range of rehabilitative services to prisoners, their families and others in conflict with the law.
John Howard Society of Ottawa
Category: Learning
The John Howard Society of Ottawa is an organization of citizens who accept responsibility for understanding and dealing with the problems of crime and the criminal justice system.
John Howard Society of Sault Ste. Marie
Category: Learning
The mandate of the Society is promoting effective just and humane responses to crime and its causes. It encourages people within the community to be aware of criminal justice issues and to share in seeking solutions to the problems of crime. Some of the services offered are: Coalition Building, Anger Management, Newstart Life Skills, Community Education and Community Crime Prevention.
The John Howard Society of Kingston and District
Category: Learning
The John Howard Society of Kingston and District provides direct service to individuals in conflict with the law or at risk of becoming in conflict with the law, their families and the public.
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Kingston Literacy & Skills (KL&S)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Kingston Literacy & Skills (KL&S) is a non-profit, community organization composed of professional staff and dedicated volunteers who deliver upgrading and workforce preparation programming to adults and families in Kingston and surrounding communities, free of charge.
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The Labour Market Group
Category: Essential skills
The Labour Market Group works closely with both educational institutions and literacy service providers in the districts of North Bay, Parry Sound, Burk’s Falls, Sundridge, South River, Callander, Mattawa, Powassan, West Nipissing and Temagami to promote the value of essential skills and education as a first step to career enhancement and development.
Lambton College
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Lambton College has evolved to become an internationally recognized, specialized institution punctuated by facilities like its Industrial Fire School, and state-of-the art computer, chemical and environmental training laboratories. Whether students' goals are to launch their career, strengthen their job skills or to pursue lifelong learning interests, the college is here to help by offering certificate, diploma and degree completion opportunities.
Laubach Literacy Ontario
Category: Learning
Laubach Literacy Ontario is a volunteer association dedicated to increasing literacy in Ontario. LLO's literacy councils support the "Each One Teach One" philosophy of peer tutoring. Laubach provides both training and professional development opportunities for its tutors and trainers. LLO is a Canadian distributor of all New Readers Press materials, including the entire Laubach Way to Reading series.
Learning Centre for Georgina
Category: Learning
The Learning Centre for Georgina promotes lifelong learning, and helps adults improve their basic reading, writing and math skills. Programs assist students in their efforts to achieve personal and job-related goals, develop skills for independence, and feel good about their accomplishments.
Learning Centres
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The goal of these centres, which are operated by the Simcoe County District School Board, is to provide adult learners of all ages and abilities with a full range of opportunities to discover new knowledge, develop new skills and achieve personal learning goals. Focused on meeting the needs of the adult student, the six Learning Centres located throughout Simcoe County enable individuals to grow personally, academically and professionally.
The Learning Circles Project
Category: Learning
This project is about how adults can learn about a variety of topics in an inclusive environment. The people who worked on this project came together as literacy workers.
Learning Connection, The
Category: Learning
The Learning Connection is an educational program involving full-time and part-time classes offered by the Near North District School Board in North Bay, Ontario. The goal is to enhance the lives of adults by helping them improve their reading, writing, language, and math capabilities in a friendly, non-threatening educational setting to help them meet their individual needs and goals.
The Learning Disabilities Association of Ontario (LDAO)
Category: Learning
The Learning Disabilities Association of Ontario is a charitable non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children, youth and adults with learning disabilities.
Learning Networks of Ontario
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Learning Networks of Ontario (LNO) is made up of 16 learning networks each of which provides support to Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) programs through core services funded by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities as part of Employment Ontario. As a group, LNO shares resources to provide quality training; collaborates in areas that relate to service coordination; identifies provincial needs; and plans a response to these needs. The Learning Networks are playing an increasingly important role in system planning, coordination and integration that extends beyond the field of literacy to other partners under the umbrella of Employment Ontario.
Learningwork.ca
Category: Essential skills
This portal provides access to a range of courses, resources, research projects and public activities on learning and work, all based at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.
Literacy and Basic Skills Practitioner Training (LBS)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This site offers professional development training for practitioners who work with adult literacy learners in the literacy and basic skills program of Ontario. While much of the training is specific to LBS, and the mentoring services are available only to LBS practitioners, the courses are free and available to anyone who wishes to use them.
Literacy and Corrections
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This new website from AlphaPlus identifies literacy resources, recommends tutor training programs and provides instructional tools and lesson plans. Geared toward correctional volunteer literacy tutors in Ontario, the site also links to community literacy resources and advocacy organizations. The forum section allows literacy providers to share ideas and support each other.
Literacy Basics
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This self-directed training module from Community Literacy of Ontario (CLO) is designed to provide literacy agencies and others with training and resources to increase knowledge and awareness of the essential skills in Ontario’s literacy and basic skills agencies. Essential skills are foundational skills needed for work, learning and life. The training module was funded by the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities.
The Literacy Council of Burlington
Category: Learning
The Literacy Council of Burlington's mission is to "help adults improve their quality of life at home, work and in the community by developing their reading, writing and mathematical skills."
Literacy Council of South Temiskaming
Category: Learning
This is a volunteer-based organization providing adult literacy tutoring on a one-to-one basis. It also helps create a learning environment which enables students to find their own voice.
Literacy Council York-Simcoe
Category: Learning
This group is a volunteer, non-profit, charitable organization that recruits, trains and matches volunteer tutors with adult students. It was established as a Laubach Council in 1984.
Literacy Group of Waterloo Region, The
Category: Learning
This group is a non-profit organization that offers adults over the age of 18, free help with skills upgrading to improve basic reading, writing, math, computer and workforce skills. Through volunteers and staff, they provide a variety of programs and services in Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge and surrounding rural areas.
Literacy Link Eastern Ontario
Category: Learning
Literacy Link Eastern Ontario (LLEO) is a Non-Profit, regional literacy network serving literacy programs in eastern Ontario through a variety of referral, sharing, research and development activities.
Literacy Link Niagara
Category: Learning
Literacy Link Niagara is a regional coalition of literacy programs, private businesses and related training agencies committed to adult basic education. This non-profit organization provides a network for shared information and resources, a continuum of quality adult basic education services and provides information and referral to the public.
Literacy Link South Central
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Literacy Link South Central (LLSC) is a literacy information and referral network servicing six counties in Ontario. Its website has a workplace literacy component that suggests ways employers can get involved in the promotion of literacy and essential skills. LLSC can help you determine your workplace literacy needs, connect with literacy providers in your community and produce written materials that are clear and easy to understand.
Literacy London Inc.
Category: Learning
Literacy London is a not-for-profit, volunteer-based organization providing one-on-one tutoring and training for adults in literacy, numeracy and computer skills. The group is comprised of neighbours helping neighbours to achieve their career and personal goals.
Literacy Network of Durham Region (LiNDR)
Category: Learning
The Literacy Network of Durham Region (LiNDR) is a non-profit agency that operates the Hotline, a literacy referral service, and supports literacy programs in Durham Region.
Literacy North Halton
Category: Learning
Literacy North Halton is a community-based organization seeking to reach and assist, through individualized and small group tutoring, adults in North Halton who wish to improve their functional level of literacy.
Literacy Ontario Central South
Category: Learning
LOCS is a Regional Literacy Network serving literacy programs in the counties of Peterborough, Victoria, Haliburton, Northumberland and Renfrew.
Literacy Volunteers: Value Added
Category: Learning
The "Literacy Volunteers, Value Added" website was created by Community Literacy of Ontario in order to honour and promote the important role of literacy volunteers in the province of Ontario.
Literature for Life
Category: Learning
Literature for Life is committed to providing a supportive environment where, through reading, writing and self-expression, at-risk teenage mothers develop a sense of self worth and acquire the knowledge and skills to live up to their full potential as individuals, parents and community members. The organization is known for its weekly ‘circles’ in which members discover the rewards of discussing issues raised in reading.
London Employment Help Centre
Category: Essential skills
The London Employment Help Centre is a community-based, not-for-profit organization that promotes personal achievement through the delivery of diverse employment and advocacy services in a caring and supportive environment. The centre teaches effective job search techniques and offers career guidance and placement opportunities.
Loyalist College - Literacy and Basic Skills (L.B.S.)
Category: Learning
L.B.S. combines academic upgrading, training readiness, career and personal development, and job-search skills. Individualized programs are provided for students who may attend full- or part-time.
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McLuhan Initiative for the Study of Literacies
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
What is the future of literacy in a global context? The McLuhan Literacies Centre at Stong College, York University, provides a venue where literacy practitioners, artists and activists, together with scholars, teachers, philosophers, media representatives and students, may explore and debate the meaning and importance of multiple forms of literacy.
Metro Toronto Movement for Literacy
Category: Learning
MTML is a network of organizations and individuals who are involved in and support adult literacy. MTML provides leadership and works actively to develop and promote adult literacy in Toronto and York Region.
Midland Area Reading Council
Category: Learning
As a branch of Laubach Literacy of Canada, MARC offers free, confidential tutoring to adults who want to improve their reading, writing, math or computer skills.
Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities can help you get the education and training you need to build a rewarding career after high school. It is responsible for managing provincial programs to support workplace training including apprenticeship, career and employment preparation, and adult literacy and basic skills.
Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Mohawk College offers relevant and dynamic courses to match a broad range of career choices, on a full-time, part-time or continuing education basis to meet every student’s lifestyle needs.
Muskoka Literacy Council
Category: Learning
The Muskoka Literacy Council is dedicated to providing adults with confidential, one-on-one and small group tutoring in literacy and math.
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Native Women's Resource Centre of Toronto
Category: Learning
The Native Women’s Resource Centre offers life-enhancing resources, cultural ceremonies and teachings, skills development, and programs to build a collective capacity and celebrate native culture. Programs fall under five broad categories: Housing and Advocacy, Youth, Parenting, Employment & Education and Culture & Spirit.
New Approaches to Lifelong Learning (NALL)
Category: Learning
NALL's basic objectives are to document current relations between informal learning and formal/nonformal education, identify major social barriers to integrating informal learning with formal/nonformal programs and certification, and support new program initiatives that promise to overcome such barriers.
Next Step: Literacy Council of South Simcoe
Category: Learning
The Literacy Council of South Simcoe is dedicated to providing and promoting literacy skills in the community.
Niagara College
Category: Learning
Niagara College offers one, two and three-year programs in administrative and justice studies; business and entrepreneurship; communications and information technology; hospitality and tourism; post-graduate studies; apprenticeship training; international education; and a full range of courses and services in continuing education and customized training for business and industry.
Niagara Regional Literacy Council
Category: Learning
The Niagara Regional Literacy Council is a charitable organization who provides free one-on-one tutoring to adults in the St. Catharines, Niagara Falls, Welland, Thorold and surrounding areas. They teach reading, math, spelling, writing, workplace skills, basic computer and life skills.
Niagara West Employment & Learning Resource Centres
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Services provided by these centres include basic and workforce skills upgrading and computer and software training. They also provide job search assistance and support in the area of academic and career exploration/development both for the unemployed and underemployed.
Nokee Kwe Occupational Skill Development Inc.
Category: Learning
The mission of Nokee Kwe, founded on Aboriginal principles, is dedicated to creating, promoting and sustaining culturally sensitive environments, which encourage and support personal development and self-determination.
North Bay Literacy Council
Category: Learning
The North Bay Literacy Council is an organization of volunteers that helps individuals improve their reading, writing and math skills, each according to need.
Northern College
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Northern College offers one, two and three-year programs leading graduates to employment in the fields of technology, business, human services, health and emergency services and veterinary sciences. It also offers post-diploma, apprenticeship, skills and job re-entry programs.
Northern Literacy Networks
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Learning Networks of Northern Ontario (LNNO) are Literacy Northwest, Literacy Network Northeast and The Mid-North Network. They work together to respond to the unique challenges and training needs of the north. The LNNO mandate is to support and promote the delivery of quality literacy and essential skills training for adults.
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ONESTEP
Category: Learning
The Ontario Network of Employment Skills Training Projects (ONESTEP) is a province-wide umbrella organization for organizations that sponsor projects that help unemployed people prepare for, return to and/or maintain employment.
Ontario Early Years Centres
Category: Learning
The Ontario government created Ontario Early Years Centres to be a place where parents and caregivers can get answers to questions, information about programs and services that are available for young children, and an opportunity to talk to early years professionals, as well as other parents and caregivers in the community.
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
OISE is a multi-departmental division of the University of Toronto offering four distinctive routes into the profession of teaching and a rich diversity of graduate programs. Programs are offered in areas such as adult education, early childhood education, educational leadership, counselling psychology, curriculum studies, equity studies and applied psychology.
Ontario JOIN (Job Opportunity Information Network)
Category: Essential skills
Ontario JOIN offers a single point of access for potential employers and works to match skilled candidates with specific employment positions being offered. JOIN's recruitment network of 70 job developers and 23 agencies has access to a large pool of job-ready candidates with a range of abilities; therefore, employers have access to a much wider candidacy group from a single source.
Ontario Native Literacy Coalition
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
ONLC is a provincial networking and field development organization supporting and serving Native literacy practitioners and learners in Ontario. Its mission is to provide information and training to Native literacy practitioners thereby enhancing both ability and awareness of literacy issues.
Ontario Network of Employment Skills Training Projects (ONESTEP)
Category: Essential skills
ONESTEP is an Ontario-wide umbrella organization for the community-based training and employment sector. More than 450 programs are provided by member agencies, with over 250,000 clients served each year. Services include career and personal counselling, literacy, ESL and numeracy programs, and job placement.
Ontario Skills Passport
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Ontario Skills Passport is a resource that provides clear descriptions of the skills used in virtually all occupations, as well as important work habits. It also provides employers with a consistent method of assessing and recording the demonstration of these skills and work habits in the workplace.
Organization for Literacy in Lambton
Category: Learning
This group offers adult and family literacy assistance to the citizens of Sarnia - Lambton and surrounding area, including a desktop publishing centre.
Orillia and District Literacy Council
Category: Learning
The Orillia and District Literacy Council is a local, non-profit, charitable organization whose trained volunteers provide basic literacy, numeracy upgrading, workforce materials to improve essential skills, and promote life-long learning for adults.
Ottawa-Carleton District School Board
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Adult programs offered by the Ottawa Carleton District School Board include English as a Second Language, Language instruction for Newcomers to Canada, Academic Upgrading and Employment Preparation, and Prior Learning and Assessment.
Ottawa Community Coalition for Literacy
Category: Learning
This Coalition promotes public awareness of and access to adult literacy information and services in the Ottawa region.
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Parent-Child Mother Goose Program
Category: Learning
This program is a group experience for parents/caregivers and their babies and young children, focusing on the pleasure and power of using oral rhymes, songs and stories together.
Parkdale Project Read
Category: Learning
Project Read helps people realize their learning goals by providing free literacy services in a supportive community. They work with English-speaking adults who want to learn to read, write, or use basic math or computer skills.
Partners in Employment
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Partners in Employment is a not-for-profit organization that assists people in Huron and Perth counties to find and keep employment. The organization has three employment resource centres: Stratford, Listowel and St.Marys, and offers a one-on-one job search service throughout Huron and Perth counties.
Pathways Skill Development and Placement Centre
Category: Essential skills
Founded in 1989, this centre helps individuals overcome barriers to meaningful employment. Through employment preparation services provided by the centre, job seekers learn to develop resumés, prepare for interviews and rediscover the confidence needed to re-enter the workforce.
Peel-Halton-Dufferin Adult Learning Network
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Peel-Halton-Dufferin Adult Learning Network provides service coordination to local literacy and adult learning organizations in Peel, Halton and Dufferin. The network helps instructors provide better quality education to adult learners by offering professional development, communications and networking opportunities.
People, Words & Change
Category: Learning
People, Words & Change is a non-profit literacy organization for adults in the Ottawa region. Through volunteer tutors, they have been helping adults read and write better since 1978.
PORT CARES Educational Resource Centre
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The PORT CARES Educational Resource Centre provides skills training to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to develop the reading, writing, mathematics and computer skills necessary to function more effectively in their personal, community and work lives.
Possibilities: Toronto’s magazine for job seekers
Category: Essential skills
Possibilities offers job seekers a swift and simple way to find information on the Internet. A free online magazine to help Toronto job seekers find work, poss.ca is an initiative of Findhelp Information Services and an Employment Ontario project funded in part by the Government of Canada.
Program Read
Category: Learning
Program Read helps adult learners in Sault Ste. Marie to improve their reading, writing, spelling, math, and basic computer skills.
Project Love
Category: Learning
CODE's Project Love is a great opportunity for Canadians to act as global citizens by sending much-needed educational materials to students and teachers in developing countries. The program talks to young people about international development in terms they can understand. And it gives them a hands-on activity to help their global neighbours their own age.
Project READ Literacy Network
Category: Learning
Project READ Literacy Network is committed to: providing coordination, referrals, advocacy, and support for literacy, literacy providers and students, as well as enhancing the effective and efficient provision of services to meet the literacy needs in Waterloo-Wellington.
PTP Adult Learning Programs
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
PTP’s mission is to provide basic skills education, upgrading, job search and related services to adults preparing for employment, training or further education. Its overall vision is empowering adults to learn and find work they value.
Public Library on Wheels (PLOW)
Category: Learning
Public Library on Wheels (PLOW) is a literacy initiative of PCIN Libraries that addresses the low literacy level in children throughout Perth County. Specifically, it delivers preschool and toddler reading programs, age-appropriate lending collections, etc.
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QUILL Learning Network
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Quality In Lifelong Learning (QUILL) Network is one of 16 regional literacy networks in Ontario funded by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. QUILL works closely with government-funded literacy and basic skills agencies that deliver free upgrading opportunities for adults who are without the basic literacy skills needed to succeed in the home, community and workforce.
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Red Lake District Adult Learning Centre
Category: Learning
The Red Lake Adult Literacy Board believes that literacy is essential to lifelong learning. The program's aim is to assist and support adults in their communities who wish to achieve and to participate more fully in their community and workplace by improving their English language and numeracy skills.
Referral Centre for Adult Training (RCAT)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The RCAT mandate is to assist adults in Prescott-Russell with the retraining process and to reduce the drop-out rate once training has commenced.
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Sault College - Literacy Educator Certificate Program
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This program is designed to address the training needs of literacy practitioners. It provides an in-depth exploration of key skills, principles, practices, concepts and professional issues involved in literacy work.
Schreiber/Terrace Bay Adult Learning Centre
Category: Learning
The Schreiber - Terrace Bay Adult Learning Centre offers the following programs to people in the area: information on all adult learning needs; upgrading in reading, writing, and math skills; help learning basic computer skills; Pre-GED upgrading skills, etc.
Seneca College
Category: Learning
Leading the way in advanced applied education, Seneca College provides students with the tools they need for success now and in the future. Seneca offers a tremendous variety of class sizes and methods of teaching — from in-class lectures and online learning to co-op and field placements.
Settlement.org
Category: Learning
This organization offers information and resources for immigrants to Ontario, Canada.
Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Sheridan is known for its academic excellence, applied research, and programs taught by dedicated faculty to motivated students in an invigorating environment. It has six academic schools focused on visualization design, digital technologies, e-commerce, advanced manufacturing, community services and corporate training.
Simcoe Muskoka Literacy Network
Category: Learning
This literacy network is a non-profit agency of organizations that provide or have an interest in adult basic education in Simcoe County and Muskoka.
Sioux-Hudson Literacy Council
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Sioux-Hudson Literacy Council is a non-profit, community-based, client-centred Literacy and Basic Skills Program. The council also operates the Sioux Lookout Learning Centre and Good Learning Anywhere distance delivery programs.
Sir Sandford Flemming College
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This college delivers that hard-to-find combination of quality learning and quality of life. It prepares students for apprenticeships and careers in fields such as arts and heritage, law and justice, the trades and skills training.
Skills for Employment, Life and Family
Category: Learning
Among the objectives of this group are : to inform the public of the importance of literacy; to reach out to adults in need of literacy skills; to work with other organizations to meet the community's literacy needs, etc.
Spotlight on Learning
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This site is designed to promote and support professional development and learning for the literacy and essential skills field in Canada. You will find training resources shared at the Spotlight on Learning conference (held in October 2010) and updates on new tools and learning from and beyond the field.
St. Christopher House Adult Literacy Program
Category: Learning
The purpose of this program is to bring together diverse people from the west end of Toronto to provide basic literacy learning and tutoring opportunities for English-speaking adults.
St. Clair College
Category: Learning
St. Clair College offers two and three-year diploma programs in technology, trades, business, hospitality/tourism, health sciences, international business, human services, media communications and general arts and science. Many programs offer coop and apprenticeship opportunities that provide students with hands-on experience.
St. Lawrence College
Category: Learning
St. Lawrence College provides practical, hands-on education to over 5,000 full-time students annually in the following areas of study: Applied Arts and General Studies, Business, Social and Community Services, Skilled Trades and Apprenticeships, etc. Part-time studies and customized training are also offered.
Superior North Literacy
Category: Learning
Their services include adult literacy training from the basic level up to and including the GED program.
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TESL Ontario
Category: Learning
This a provincial non-profit organization of educators and specialists in the field of English as a Second Language (ESL) and English Skills Development (ESD) who aim to develop and enhance many aspects of the teaching and learning of ESL.
Thunder Bay Literacy Group
Category: Learning
The Thunder Bay Literacy Group is a community-based organization created to assist adults in Thunder Bay improve basic reading, writing and math skills. In addition, the Thunder Bay Literacy Group works to raise awareness about adult literacy issues.
Toronto Adult Student Association
Category: Learning
TASA's goal is to promote the value and continued existence of adult education in the public school system. With an eye to the future, TASA's long-term goal is to extend their mandate and vision to the Separate School Boards, and other educational partners.
Toronto Catholic District School Board
Category: Learning
The TCDSB, Continuing Education Department (Adult Education) provides services to adult newcomers in Canada and offers full-time and part-time courses in English as a Second Language, ESL/Computer Skills, ESL/Workplace Preparation, Citizenship Preparation, Literacy, Literacy & Basic Skills, TOEFL / TWE and LINC during the day, evening and weekend.
Toronto District School Board
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The TDSB is the largest school board in Canada. Programs offered in the Continuing Education Department are: Community Programs, Credit Programs, English as a Second Language, Remedial Programs and Elementary International Languages Programs.
Toronto Public Library
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Toronto Public Library is the largest library system in Canada with 98 branches. Collections of adult literacy materials are available at 55 branches and collections of literacy resources are maintained at 18 community-based literacy programs. Literacy instruction for adults is offered at eight library branches through the library's Adult Literacy Program. Toronto Public Library supports children through the Leading to Reading Program at 23 branches and Homework Help Clubs at 19 branches. The Rap N' Read program helps teens with reading and homework.
Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC)
Category: Essential skills
The Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council was established in 2003 to promote the integration of immigrants into the Canadian labour market. TRIEC is a multi-stakeholder council that is working to improve access to employment for immigrants in the city of Toronto and the regions of Peel, York and Halton, so they are better able to use the skills, education and experience they bring with them to Canada.
Tradeability.ca
Category: Essential skills
Tradeability.ca is a collaborative effort among community partners in Durham Region, funded by the Province of Ontario and the Government of Canada. Its goal is to meet current and future market demand for skilled tradespeople in Durham Region through collaborative community action.
Training and Learning Centre of Renfrew County
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Training and Learning Centre (Renfrew County Community Upgrading Program) gives adults an opportunity to build their skills to prepare for work, education, training or life.
Training Post
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This website of Laubach Literacy Ontario contains complete modules and other resources to help you with your training and tutoring needs.
Trent Valley Literacy Association
Category: Learning
The Trent Valley Literacy Association (TVLA) is a non-profit organization formed to help adults in Peterborough city and county acquire the literacy skills needed to live and work successfully in the community.
TriArch Educational Services
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
TriArch Educational Services is an education centre specializing in one-on-one and small group, customized instruction for adults and children. Course offerings include programs in academic upgrading, computers, career guidance and tutorials for children and youth. TriArch serves six locations in Ontario: Ajax, Cobourg, Peterborough, Scarborough, Toronto and Whitby.
Tri-County Literacy Network
Category: Learning
The Tri-County Literacy Network is a non-profit organization of people concerned about adult literacy. It provides information sharing and offers guidance and direction to adult literacy programs in the municipality of Chatham-Kent, Essex, and Lambton counties.
Tri En Communications
Category: Essential skills
Tri En Communications is a national consultancy with a focus on research, adult learning and communication. It specializes in research related to adult learning and worker-centred literacy, consultations and needs analysis, program and project evaluation, and project management.
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United Native Friendship Centre
Category: Learning
This Friendship Centre is dedicated to enhancing the lives of native and non-native people in the community of Fort Frances and surrounding area. Its primary responsibility is to serve Aboriginal people with special services in the fields of social, educational and cultural development while, at the same time, building a bridge of understanding between native and non-native people.
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Valley Adult Learning Association - Fort Frances
Category: Learning
The Valley Adult Learning Association provides the Ontario Literacy and Basic Skills program to people in the Rainy River Valley. The staff and volunteer tutors work with committed adults to achieve their personal goals in reading, math, communications and computer skills.
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Wellington County Learning Centre
Category: Learning
The Wellington County Learning Centre provides residents of the county with a vital learning service, and with information about literacy issues. Their varied programs and services are key community resources which allow anyone the opportunity to maximize their ability to learn.
Work and Lifelong Learning Research Network (WALL) at the Centre for the Study of Education and Work (OISE)
Category: Essential skills
WALL is a project of the Centre for the Study of Education and Work. Benefiting from the contributions of international advisers, the WALL research network endeavours to identify gaps in workplace training and education in Canada and bring visibility to current learning and work issues and trends.
Working Skills Centre
Category: Essential skills
Working Skills Centre (WSC) is an innovative, community-based, non-profit, charitable organization that empowers immigrants, primarily women. Its mandate is to prepare clients to fully participate in Canadian society by providing education, work experience and settlement services that ultimately lead to employment.
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.
WorkSmartOntario
Category: Essential skills
This is the official Ontario Ministry of Labour website for young and new workers. It’s your guide to employment standards, health and safety on the job and workplace problem-solving.
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YMCA of Niagara
Category: Learning
Here is an easy-to-use site that answers many questions about the YMCA programs and membership.
Youth Skills
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Youth Skills is designed to appeal to young people interested in exploring their learning needs and career goals. Taking an interactive approach, the website offers useful exercises and resources that will help youth get on the right path to meaningful employment.
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