ELT funded projects fiscal
year 2005/06
Projects (By Province-Territory)
Alberta
Bredin Institute – Centre for Learning
Edmonton
The Bredin Institute – Centre for Learning is developing a Preceptor Manual to improve the communication and learning experience of Internationally Trained Pharmacists (ITP) during their Structured Practical Training. The Preceptor Manual will complement the ACP Internship Manual to aid in the successful integration of ITP into the workplace. Preceptors have a unique opportunity to share their knowledge, attitudes and skills with a fellow pharmacist who has limited or no experience working in a Canadian pharmacy.
Bredin Institute – Centre for Learning
Edmonton
The Bredin Institute - Centre for Learning is establishing an “Engineering Bridge” program for Internationally Trained Engineers, providing them with an opportunity to prepare for and secure employment as professional engineers. The program is comprised of classroom theory, computerized training, ESL training, TOEFL preparation, role play, engineering skill upgrading, communication skill building, workplace culture adaptation, internship with engineering firms, case management and follow up support.
Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers
Edmonton
The project focuses on the development of software tools to enable self-assessment of prior learning by Internationally Educated Engineers and Accountants and the adaptation of the curricula of current employment bridging programs to enable computer-based learning and eventually, distance learning.
Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers
Edmonton
The project focuses on the development of language benchmarks for the engineering professions to help support the workplace integration of internationally educated professional engineers and technologists.
Calgary Immigrant Educational Society
Calgary
Calgary Immigrant Educational Society anticipates that during the Language Leading to Employment and Accreditation for Professionals (LLEAP), 24 internationally trained immigrants will benefit from job-specific language training for engineers, accountants, geologists, geophysicists, IT professionals and other professionals with technical or oil and gas experience. The language training component of the project is focusing on helping participants achieve language proficiency at CLB 7-8.
NorQuest College
Edmonton
NorQuest College runs a development and delivery project to help individuals with technical education and experience gain employment in their field. The program includes 6 months of classroom work and 4 months of work placement. Students enhance their English language communication skills and gain Canadian work experience in their field. The project is also developing prior learning assessment tools and instructor led self-study course materials.
NorQuest College
Edmonton
NorQuest College is developing a nursing-specific ESL curriculum and materials, based on CLB, for its 12-week ESL Bridge to Practical Nurse course. Program components include screening tools, additional language development support materials, including pronunciation workshops, functional discourse practice and socio-cultural understanding.
Centre for Newcomers
Calgary
The Centre for Newcomers is reducing the barriers to employment and easing the transition to employment for 45 internationally educated professionals in the occupational area of accounting, finance and management, including human resource management. The Centre is offering courses to help participants attain language proficiency at CLB 7-10.
Maple Leaf Academy
Calgary
The Maple Leaf Academy is offering its services to 28 experienced professionals with university degrees, diverse cultural, language and professional backgrounds, and minimum language proficiency at CLB 6. The program includes 3 months of full-time language instruction and a 3-month work experience component.
Calgary Immigrant Aid Society
Calgary
The Calgary Immigrant Aid Society is administering the Canadian Language Benchmarks Assessment to immigrants and refugees in order to assist clients and service providers determine linguistic eligibility for ELT, provide appropriate placement and measure progress/outcomes in English acquisition.
Keyano College
Fort McMurray
Keyano College is providing Enhanced Language Training to immigrants in the Regional Municipality of Woods Buffalo. The project is a continuation of a program that began in October 2004. Participants increase their understanding of Canadian workplace culture and employer’s expectations, while improving their technical and written language, and communication and presentation skills.
Calgary Catholic Immigrant Society
Calgary
Calgary Catholic Immigration Society is offering new Canadians who are foreign-trained engineers, geophysicists and geologists and who have a minimum Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) of 6, 14 weeks of intensive language, pronunciation, career planning and occupational training. This training is followed by a 4-week volunteer job placement in the participant’s field.
Society of Brooks Community Adult Learning Council
Brooks
This project is in its second year. It provides Integrated Language Training to participants who have a range of language proficiency skills (CLB 4–8). The training offered focuses on language skills that are suited to the career choice of the participant. This includes: vocabulary, documentation processing, computer skills and on the job training.
British Columbia
Kwantlen University College
Surrey
Kwantlen University College is developing an online study guide for internationally trained millwrights to improve their language competency, based on the Canadian Language Benchmarks. The guide is to be piloted with a group of immigrants trained as millwrights and include an evaluation of accessibility, usability and applicability of the guide to enhance access to the millwright trade.
Camosun College
Victoria
Camosun College is developing, piloting and assessing the implementation of occupation-focused ESL curriculum based on CLB 6+ in five sectors, which are targeted by the British Columbia’s Skills Connect Program.
BC Skills Connect for Immigrants Program
Various communities
The Skills Connect for Immigrants Program is a 3-year pilot initiative to assess and bridge over 5,000 skilled immigrants into secure meaningful employment in the target sectors of construction, transportation, tourism/hospitality, energy and health.
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
Vancouver
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority plans to design, implement and evaluate an integrated bridging program that will increase its capacity to recruit, assess, hire and integrate registered Internationally Educated Nurses (IEN) into its acute care units.
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
Vancouver
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority is undertaking a pilot project that aims to prepare underemployed Internationally Educated Nurses to meet the criteria for entry into practice as Licensed Practical Nurses and develop recommendations to streamline the process for future IENs.
Manitoba
List of projects to follow
Nova Scotia
Metropolitan Immigration Settlement Association
Halifax
The Metropolitan Immigration Settlement Association (MISA) is developing an integrated range of ELT initiatives to help bridge the gap to employment for immigrants and increase their ability to obtain and retain employment related to their qualifications.
New Brunswick
The New Brunswick Multicultural Council Inc.
Fredericton
The New Brunswick Multicultural Council is adapting curricula and resources created by other service providers for use in delivering ELT in New Brunswick. The project, which includes language training, mentoring opportunities, work placements, and Prior Learning Assessment, aims to help streamline the process of professional/occupational recognition and facilitate access to the labour market and further training.
Newfoundland and Labrador
The Association for New Canadians
St. John’s
The Association of New Canadians (ANC) is developing and piloting a Mentoring Partnership Initiative that will complement and support its existing Enhanced Language Training Program.
The Association for New Canadians
St. John’s
The Association for New Canadians is delivering an ELT program at CLB 6-7 which offers labour market language training to 25 eligible participants. This project works in conjunction with the ELT Mentoring program currently offered by ANC.
Ontario
Catholic Crosscultural Services
Scarborough
Catholic Crosscultural Services is developing a teaching curriculum and a volunteer training manual in the health care and childcare sectors. The program also provides sector-specific language training at CLB 7-10 to participants and provides volunteer recruitment and training. Resources to provide follow-up support to clients are also in development.
Centennial College
Toronto
Centennial College is developing a curriculum at CLB 7 for its ELT project management program for internationally educated professionals. The program, offered over two 15-week semesters, includes mentoring and work placement components.
Centennial College
Toronto
Centennial College is developing a curriculum at CLB 7-8 for its ELT pilot bridging program for internationally educated massage therapists, which is offered over two 12-week semesters. The program also offers mentoring online and a work placement in a clinical setting.
Centre for Information and Community Services of Ontario
Scarborough
The Centre for Information and Community Services of Ontario assists internationally educated immigrant professionals in Toronto to integrate successfully into the Canadian workplace. The ELT project it offers targets 4 professional sectors: engineering, accounting, information technology and health care.
CARE Centre for Internationally Educated Nurses
Toronto
The CARE Centre for Internationally Educated Nurses combines the strengths of health care employers, educational institutions, the CARE for Nurses Project and the involvement of other stakeholders to deliver an integrated ELT program for immigrant nurses, enabling them to secure and retain employment in their field.
The Centre for Skills Development and Training – Bay Area Learning Centre
Burlington
The Centre for Skills Development and Training is involved in the delivery of two ELT projects: an advanced occupation-specific English language training program (CLB 6-7) for foreign-trained professionals and business people and a job-specific language training program for foreign-trained electricians and new Canadians wishing to enter that field of work. Both projects combine language instruction with the acquisition of job search skills and work placements opportunities.
COSTI Immigrant Services
Toronto
COSTI Immigrant Services is providing a unique combination of in-class ELT, on-line technical terminology and communication training and job-specific work placement in the accounting profession.
La Cité Collégiale
Ottawa
La Cité Collégiale’s French ELT program targets immigrants with qualifications in the field of clerical and administrative work. In addition to language training, the program offers Canadian work experience and mentoring services, which improve the participants’ prospects for successfully finding and retaining employment in this field.
Dixie Bloor Neighbourhood
Mississauga
Dixie Bloor Neighbourhood Centre offers both occupation-specific and non occupation-specific ELT programs at CLB 7-9. The occupation-specific programming focuses on office administration and financial management. The bridge to work component of the programs involves facilitating job placements for participants according to their professional training and experience.
George Brown College
Toronto
George Brown College’s Intensive English Program (IEP) and Bridging Programs are designed for internationally educated professionals. Participants in the IEP program have English language skills in the range of CLB 2-8, while the Bridging Programs target students with CLB 6-9. The objectives of this project are to develop and pilot the tools and processes necessary to move toward the adoption of the CLB standard as well as revise current IEP curriculum to align with the results of the pilots.
Graybridge Malkam
Ottawa
Graybridge Malkam is delivering English language training to adult immigrants interested in a policing career. Graybridge Malkam offers an integrated training program that consists of language skills development at CLB 8-9, with an emphasis on written communication and study skills, mentoring and cultural awareness. Through the in-class visits and ride-along in the patrol car program, the participants learn about the policing career and the role of the police force in Canada from active police officers.
Halton Catholic District School Board
Oakville
The Halton Catholic District School Board is providing ELT services to foreign-trained professionals, including job-specific language training and preparation for labour market integration. HCDSB helps participants improve their chances of finding employment in their chosen occupation, trade or profession, through in-class instruction and unpaid work placement experience.
Halton Multicultural Council Inc.
Oakville
The Halton Multicultural Council Inc. offers an ELT program, which includes English instruction at CLB 7-10, business writing and language skills for professionals, and orientation to the office workplace. The bridge to work component of the program focuses on communication styles, information technology, finance and accounting, volunteer work placements and typing/keyboard practice.
Inter-Cultural Neighbourhood Social Services
Mississauga
The Inter-Cultural Neighbourhood Social Services delivers occupation-specific ELT training that focuses on sector-specific terminology, mentoring and work placements for newcomers interested in pursuing small business/entrepreneurial careers or skilled in professions relating to the environmental or business administration.
Jewish Vocational Service of Metropolitan Toronto
Toronto
The Jewish Vocational Service of Metropolitan Toronto is developing a curriculum for the delivery of language training to immigrants with experience in banking/finance and engineering.
LASI World Skills
Ottawa
LASI World Skills delivers, in conjunction with the Skills CAN project, job-specific language training at the CLB 7-10 to internationally trained engineers (non IT), teachers and medical professionals. Additionally, participants receive employment support including workshops on resume writing, interview skills, networking, mentoring and information on professional certification requirements.
Niagara College
Welland
Niagara College is conducting research on the immigrant population of the Niagara Region including labour market information relating to occupational backgrounds and employment goals of immigrants in these communities. Curricula are being developed, based on the results of the research, for the delivery of ELT programs targeting up 10 different occupations.
Peel Adult Learning Centre
Mississauga
The Peel Adult Learning Centre is providing labour market levels of language training to newcomers, assisting them in finding suitable employment and promoting fair recognition of their skills, education, and experience.
Riverdale Immigrant Women’s Centre
Toronto
The Riverdale Immigrant Women’s Centre’s ELT project for foreign-trained teachers started in 2004/05. After establishing a National Advisory Committee to review existing curricula at CLB 6-7, the Centre went on to develop curricula specific to foreign-trained teachers. The Centre offers part-time ELT training to foreign-trained teachers.
Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Oakville
The Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning is developing and implementing an ELT program with a focus on employment and workplace related language training, including profession-specific language training. The program includes work placement, mentoring, employment supports, and follow-up activities.
Skills for Change
Toronto
Skills for Change is developing and implementing a curriculum specific to internationally-trained trades people and agrologists. This includes the use of sector-specific CLB pre- and post-training assessment tools and work-related language modules focusing on intercultural communication competencies and terminology specific to agrologists. The program also includes job search supports such as mentoring matches, job development, and follow-up networking.
Toronto District School Board
Toronto
The Toronto District School Board, in partnership with the Joint Apprenticeship and Training Trust Fund Inc. (Carpenters’ Local Union 27), is providing advanced language -training (CLB 7-10) to foreign-trained carpenters which is complemented by mentoring opportunities and a work placement.
Toronto District School Board
Toronto
The Toronto District School Board is providing advanced language training (CLB 7-10) to help newcomers improved their language abilities and get an orientation to the Canadian workplace culture in order to improve their labour market integration outcomes.
Waterloo Region District School Board
Kitchener
The Waterloo Region District School Board is partnering with the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology to develop ELT technical curricula for the engineering and the health care sectors which are based on the Canadian Language Benchmarks and Essential Skills.
Welland Heritage Council and Multicultural Centre
Welland
The Welland Heritage Council and Multicultural Centre is offering an ELT program, at CLB 7-9, to immigrants in the Welland area who are trained in a profession or a trade. Various bridge-to-work activities complement the language training provided in order to facilitate the participants’ integration into the labour market.
Women’s Enterprise Skills Training of Windsor Inc.
Windsor
The Women’s Enterprise Skills Training of Windsor Inc. is implementing an ELT program for skilled professionals, which includes industry specific language training (at CLB 6-10), job placement with local businesses and mentoring by established professionals.
Working Skills Centre
Toronto
The Working Skills Centre is developing tools and curricula at CLB 7-8 specific to the logistics and accounting sectors and reaching out to foreign-trained immigrants in those fields by implementing the ELT program in 3 locations: downtown Toronto, Scarborough and York region.
YMCA of Greater Toronto
Toronto
The YMCA of Greater Toronto is delivering an ELT program at CLB 7-10 which focuses on the hospitality sector, providing newcomers with a comprehensive and time effective opportunity to develop their language skills to increase their employability in that sector.
Welland Heritage Council and Multicultural Centre
Welland
The Welland Heritage Council and Multicultural Centre is offering an ELT program, at CLB 7-9, to immigrants in the Welland area who are trained in a profession or a trade. Various bridge-to-work activities complement the language training provided in order to facilitate the participants’ integration into the labour marke
Prince Edward Island
Holland College Adult & Community Education
Charlottetown
This is a continuation of the Enhanced Employability Essential Language Skills (EEELS) program from 2004/05. This ELT program incorporates language training at CLB 5-8, employability skills and on-the-job training.
Saskatchewan
Regina Open Door Society (RODS)
Regina
Saskatoon Open Door Society (SODS) and Saskatchewan Intercultural Association (SIA)
Saskatoon
Two pilot ELT programs are delivered by the Regina Open Door Society, in Regina, and by the Saskatoon Open Door Society, in partnership with the Saskatchewan Intercultural Association, in Saskatoon. These pilot projects facilitate the labour market integration of recent skilled immigrants by providing: client-centred employment needs assessments, language training for work at an intermediate to advanced level (CLB 7-10), work placements, career mentoring opportunities and orientation to the Saskatchewan labour market.
ELT Distance Delivery Pilot Project
This project focuses on the development of ELT distance delivery options to extend ELT services to more immigrants in urban centres, and to immigrants in smaller and rural communities across the province. Learner’s supports (e.g., access to language instructors, tutors and technical support) are being developed.
National
Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks
Ottawa
The Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks is piloting a second version of the Workplace Language Assessment (WLA). The WLA is used to assess language proficiency levels in the range CLB 7-10.
Centre for Education and Training
Mississauga
The Centre for Education and Training is training assessors in the administration of the two components of the Enhanced Language Training Placement Test (ELTPA 6-10 and ELTPA 9-10).
Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks
Ottawa
This project involves developing a set of 68 exit tasks (20 reading, 20 writing, 16 listening and 12 speaking tasks) based on the “Summative Assessment Tool (SAM)” model for use by instructors in the ELT programs.
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