Workshops and Presentations

Members' Meeting: Preparing for Change
4:00 to 5:00, October 19, 2009
Province-wide teleconference
ACTEW reports on the Service Delivery Advisory Group meeting with MTCU regarding the Employment Ontario transition. Also discussed is the impact of closure or changes to MTCU-funded programs.
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Members' Meeting: MTCU's External Service Delivery Reference Group on Program Design -- Employment.
9:30 to 12:00, February 21, 2008
Toronto, Ontario
A session with members on ACTEW's Strategic Planning followed by a presentation by Honey Crossley, Executive Director of Working Skills Centre. Honey reported on the progress of this transformation project with MTCU for Employment Ontario.
Slide Presentation: "Update on Employment Ontario Transformation" (PDF 688.5KB)

Members' Meeting: "CLEONet: Public Legal Education Information for Community Workers "
9:30 to 12:00, September 24, 2007
Toronto, Ontario
Networking meeting followed by a presentation by Fiona MacCool on CLEONet, an online legal resource center from Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO)

Members' Meeting: "Provisioning: Thinking Holistically About Women's Work"
9:30 to 12:00, June 22, 2007
Toronto, Ontario
Networking meeting followed by a presentation by Sandra Tam, Women at the Edges of the New Economy (WEDGE), University of Toronto, on provisioning.
Slide Presentation: "Provisioning: Thinking Holistically About Women's Work" (PDF 252KB)
Research Summary: "Understanding Young Women's Provisioning" (PDF 192KB)
Information Sheet: "The Wedge Provisioning Research" (PDF 29KB)

Constellation Presentation (2007 Summit - Strategic Use of Information and Communication Technology for Communities)
February 23-25, 2007
Vancouver, British Columbia
Download Hema's presentation regarding the Constellation, entitled, "Sharing Technology to Strenthen Communities: The Content-sharing Constellation", delivered at the 2007 Summit in Vancouver, British Columbia.

ACTEW Annual General Meeting 2006
June 29, 2006
Notes from ACTEW's AGM are now available for download. The AGM had a focus on leadership and the membership helped prioritize the development of professional development and public education supports for the next year. Download the Meeting Minutes:
ACTEW AGM Meeting Minutes 2006 (Adobe Acrobat, 57 KB)

Presentations at Conference on Rethinking Work and Lifelong Learning Conference
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE/UT)
June 5, 2006
ACTEW’s Research Assistant Hong Zhu collaborated with researchers from the University of British Columbia to present the findings of their project, Women's Alternative and Informal Learning Pathways to Jobs in the IT Field, at the Rethinking Work and Learning: Research Findings and Policy Challenges International Conference at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE/UT). Building on the analysis of women working in the IT sector and their informal/non-formal learning experiences, these papers explore the tensions and paradoxes of: formal and informal, visible and invisible learning; the recognition of the value of on-the-job informal learning; the influence of secondary and post-secondary education in relation to gender; and careers in information technology.
Download the presentation: Rethinking Work and Lifelong Learning Conference Presentation (Adobe Acrobat, 245 KB)

Planning Women's Livelihoods: a Professional Development Symposium for Women's Training Providers
Oakham House, Ryerson University, Toronto
May 24 and 25, 2006
The by-invitation symposium will gather women’s service providers together to discuss the implications and the opportunities available through the new Canada-Ontario Labour Market Development Agreement (LMDA) and the Labour Market Partnership Agreement (LMPA). This event is funded by the Ontario Women's Directorate and Status of Women Canada, and is a part of ACTEW's three-year project "Putting Women in the Picture: Building Equitable Access to Ontario's Labour Market."
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ACTEW is involved with the interim Voluntary Sector Advisory Committee on Employment (VSACE), a federal joint working group of the voluntary sector and Service Canada. As secretariat for the voluntary sector representatives of the committee, Jen participated in training sessions throughout January and February for agency sponsors and Service Canada staff in Toronto, Kenora and North Bay. To date more than 1,300 voluntary sector agencies have participated in information sessions in Ontario.

At the Local Boards' Conference (LTAB) on April 20, 2006, Jen presented a session on the work of the Joint Working Group and interim Voluntary Sector Advisory Committee on Employment.  Download Jen Liptrot's presentation:

LTAB Presentation April 2006 (Power Point, 231 KB)

Entrewomen Presentation (Opportunities Conference, 2004)
November 25, 2004

Download Deanna Yerichuk's presentation on the Entrewomen project, entitled "Supporting Women's Self-Employment Through Technology" delivered at the Opportunities conference in Hamilton on November 25, 2004.

Entrewomen Presentation (Power Point, 392 KB)

ACTEW AGM 2004
September 24, 2004

Notes from ACTEW's AGM are now available for download. Copies of Jamie Austin's presentation have been mailed to the ACTEW membership, and are available, along with the full research report from the Toronto Social Services web site at http://www.toronto.ca/socialservices/

AGM Meeting Minutes (69 KB)