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British Columbia websites
Provincial coalition
Decoda Literacy Solutions
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Decoda Literacy Solutions is the new provincial literacy organization for British Columbia. It brings together the work, experience and expertise of Literacy BC and the literacy department of 2010 Legacies Now. Decoda’s vision is a culture of community-based learning and literacy that supports the full continuum of priorities that have been identified by communities – from early childhood to family, adult, workplace and emerging literacies.
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Aboriginal Community Career Employment Services Society (ACCESS)
Category: Essential skills
ACCESS offers customized employment and training services designed specifically to provide members of the Lower Mainland urban Aboriginal community with the education and skills to compete equally and effectively in today's job market.
Adult Basic Education Association of British Columbia
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This association promotes excellence in adult basic education instruction and programming. This site contains membership information, publications and related link sites.
Association of Service Providers for Employability and Career Training (ASPECT)
Category: Essential skills
The Association of Service Providers for Employability and Career Training (ASPECT) is a non-profit association of community-based trainers that collectively strives to prepare people for the world of work. ASPECT offers a variety of employability and job retention resources designed especially for career development practitioners.
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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.
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Decoda Literacy Solutions
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Decoda Literacy Solutions is the new provincial literacy organization for British Columbia. It brings together the work, experience and expertise of Literacy BC and the literacy department of 2010 Legacies Now. Decoda’s vision is a culture of community-based learning and literacy that supports the full continuum of priorities that have been identified by communities – from early childhood to family, adult, workplace and emerging literacies.
Directory of ESL Courses and Employment Programs for Immigrants in British Columbia
Category: Essential skills
This is a comprehensive online directory of English as a second language courses and programs, courses and services that prepare immigrants for a job or career in British Columbia. The directory allows users to select a city in which programs are offered and view specific contact information for each site.
Discover Trades BC
Categories: Essential skills, Labour market
Discover Trades BC is an initiative funded by the British Columbia government to help provide easy access for secondary students to the many educational opportunities available to them in trades training. B.C. offers a wealth of programs and training options to give students the skills they need to lead exciting and rewarding careers. Students, parents and educators can discover these opportunities here.
Douglas College - Adult Special Education
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Douglas College offers a wide variety of programs including university transfer, vocational, career and college preparatory programs. Adult Special Education (ASE) programs are offered for people with special needs, or barriers to employment.
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Hastings Institute Workplace Literacy Programs
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Hastings Institute has earned a reputation for excellence in the delivery of training on issues related to employment and service equity, diversity, cross-cultural relations, literacy, and harassment-free workplaces.
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Industry Training Authority
Category: Essential skills
Improved approaches to skills training are positioning B.C. for economic success and providing career development opportunities to individual British Columbians. The Industry Training Authority (ITA) works with industry and employers, trainees and apprentices, and training providers to meet industry’s training needs, now and in the future.
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Ministry of Advanced Education
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Ministry of Advanced Education was created to help British Columbians develop the knowledge and skills needed to reach their full potential and to ensure B.C. successfully competes in the global
knowledge economy. This means the ministry must ensure accessible, affordable, high-quality post-secondary education and training opportunities are available.
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Native Education Centre
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The Native Education Centre in Vancouver has been offering culturally relevant education and training programs to the Aboriginal community since 1967. In the beginning, the Centre was devoted to a Native Education Initiative which focused on pre-employment preparation. Since then, a broader role was sought with expanded programs in both academic upgrading and skills training.
Northern Lights College - Career and College Preparation
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Programs at NLC are designed to provide you with the opportunity to obtain the necessary classroom education, and supplement that with appropriate practicums or hands-on opportunities to make the successful transition from student to employee.
North Island College
Category: Essential skills
With over 900 courses and 70 credit programs in health care, trades, business, fine arts, tourism, and university studies, NIC offers the education and skills training needed to reach your goal, with the flexibility and support to make it achievable.
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Okanagan College (Literacy Skills for Adults)
Category: Essential skills
Okanagan College is committed to the principle of life-long learning and understands the need for a continuum of education to meet the needs of the future. It offers a variety of learning opportunities covering a broad spectrum of interests from basic literacy to professional upgrading.
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Plain Language Partners
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Plain Language Partners offers workplace services considering the special needs of the legal and justice communities to help increase efficiency, productivity and communication effectiveness.
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UFCW Local 832 Training Centre
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
The literacy program at this Training Centre consists of free one-to-one tutoring or small group learning for union members in Winnipeg and Brandon. They also have individual tutoring with community based programs in smaller towns across Manitoba. Some of these members have gone on to the adult high school program offered by the centre.
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SkillPlan - BC Construction Industry Skills Improvement Council
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
This is a not-for-profit society with an extensive history in workplace education. Involved with essential skills projects with network partners across Canada for more than a decade, SkillPlan is a team of workplace educators who have experience with industry, English as a Second Language learners, people with learning disabilities, and curriculum development.
Stó:Lō Aboriginal Skills & Employment Training (SASET)
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
SASET provides employment services and training programs throughout the Fraser Valley. Whether you are a community member, an employer, a learner or a practitioner, the SASET website features supports to assist you in integrating essential skills into your workplace or life.
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TLFI – The Learning Factor Inc.
Category: Essential skills
TLFI – The Learning Factor Inc. is a Canadian organization dedicated to making business and labour smarter about learning through innovations in workplace education. Whether you are an individual in need of professional guidance or a company that requires a transformation, this website offers solutions and services that include needs assessment, training design and delivery, leadership and facilitation support, lean manufacturing training and certification, research in work culture and conference presentations.
TradesInfo.ca
Category: Essential skills
TradesInfo.ca is a new website from UFCW Local 247’s Twenty Four Seven Training Centre. A clean and intuitive interface provides accessibility to a variety of users regardless of literacy level. Features include free online account registration, a trades-focused resumé builder, a skill builder that measures your trade skills against Canadian standards, a personalized web profile to showcase your skills, and links to provincial apprenticeship authorities.
Transferable Trade Skills
Category: Essential skills
By helping to create a habit of lifelong learning that will enrich people’s work and personal lives, the Transferable Trade Skills site offers a unique profiling tool designed to identify workers’ prior learning and experience in trades. TTS enables them to transfer into compatible trades occupations or complete their trade’s certification.
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UFCW Local 247 Training Centre
Category: Essential skills
The mandate of the UFCW Local 247 Training Centre is to provide the tools and the opportunity necessary for workers to achieve their full potential in the workplace and to invest in lifelong learning. It was the first accredited training centre for union members in Canada, now with membership centres in New Westminster and Kelowna and two other centres in Prince George and Fort Saint John.
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Victoria READ Society
Categories: Essential skills, Learning
Founded in 1976, the READ Society helps students of all ages in the greater Victoria area learn basic academic skills through small classes, individualized help and a supportive, caring environment.
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WelcomeBC
Category: Essential skills
WelcomeBC is intended to help attract immigrants to the province and provide a hospitable environment. It offers settlement programs and supports to help newcomers learn to live and work in their new environment. Quick links will direct users to English language instruction, employment information and information for service providers.
What’s Key
Category: Essential skills
What’s Key in Labour Market Information for B.C. is a catalogue of selected resources for British Columbia career practitioners, young people and adult job-seekers. The website and the information resource guide were designed to steer users toward an array of selected career learning and labour market information sources and tools, handpicked by knowledgeable practitioners.
WorkBC
Category: Essential skills
The WorkBC website provides an expanded source of information to meet the needs of each of the core users of labour market information. The five sections – career pathways, job seekers, employers, service providers and labour market statistics – guide users to relevant tools, facts and statistics, presenting case studies and success stories to outline how particular information or services can help.
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 Essential Skills Training (WEST)
Category: Essential skills
The WEST team of professionals works with employers to create training that is cost-effective, efficient and well received by participants. A strategic effort is made to assess before training and create programs that are job-related, focused and specific in outcome. The result: a transformative change within an organization and its people.
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