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Recent Projects
Paths to Financial Vibrancy
(2006-2007)
ACTEW collaborated with ONESTEP and OAYEC on this one-year project, funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation. The resulting web site compiles existing research, available training opportunities, and indicators of financial vibrancy. It is an innovative, web-based tool developed to help map out the steps for CBT agencies to develop and implement their plans to becoming financially vibrant.
It's Your Call Research Project
Led by the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto, ACTEW partnered on this collaborative research project to examine the impact of HRSDC’s Call for Proposals process on community-based training programs in Toronto. Other partners include ONESTEP, OCASI, OAYEC and Toronto Neighbourhood Centres (TNC). Funding for the project is provided through a United Way of Greater Toronto Social Research Grant. Read the full report. (PDF 814KB)
Social Enterprise Feasibility Assessment Workshop Series
(September 2006 - January 2007)
Growing Social Purpose Enterprise delivered a series of workshops and peer-led clinics to ACTEW members who are new to the field
of social enterprise.
Skills and Knowledge Profile (SKP)
Online
(May 2001 - December 2004)
An interactive, online self-access tool focussing on prior-learning
and both formal and informal learning experience.
Entrewomen
(January 2004 - July 2005)
A source for business information, learning opportunities
and networking connections related to women entrepreneurs.
Employment
Perceptions of the Job Placement Process
(January - April 2004)
Research on employer experiences and perceptions of the
job placement process with community agencies.
Putting Women in the Picture
Labour market policy and the women's training sector
(October 2001 - March 2004)
Beautiful Beginnings
Helping women create and maintain a professional look for
the Canadian workplace
(September 2002 - August 2003)
Making Connections
Meeting the information needs of professionals working with
immigrant women
(April 2002 - March 2003)
Shortcuts to Career Development
Resources for Girls and Women
A guide of high-quality resources for the career development
needs of girls and women
(updated in early 2003)
By Design or By Default
Women's labour market training needs and the role of community-based
training
(completed April 2002) Women's Alternate and Informal
Learning Pathways to Jobs in the (IT) Information Technology
Sector
(October 2002 - September 2006)
Explored alternate and informal learning pathways that
women use to acquire jobs in the IT sector.
ACTEW/Sistering Computer Literacy
Course
Computer literacy course providing women with no previous
computer exposure with a accessible, supportive learning
environment
(September 2001 - January 2002)
Still Shopping for Training
Women, training and livelihoods and chapter published in
the book "Training for the Excluded"
(completed November 2001)
Challenges and Connections
Meeting the information needs of professionals working with
immigrant women
(published July 2001)
Mobilizing the Capacity of the
Women's Training Sector
Strategy and capacity-building processes in Ontario's women's
employment and training sector and follow-up to policy changes
on women's ability to access employment and training services
(completed June 2001) |
