PINs Leaders Roundtable: Building on our

Strengths

March 7 2015

www.NetworksForImmigrants.ca

Time Agenda item9:00 am Registration

9:20 am – 9:25 am Welcome

9:25 am – 10:00 am Program Review: Building on our Strengths

10:00 am – 12 noon Introduction to Network Mapping

12:00 noon-1:15pm Lunch, open networking

PINs association video shoot (Room 302)

1:15 pm – 2:05 pm Breakout session #1

2:05 pm – 2:15 pm Afternoon break and snack (Room 309)

2:15 pm – 3:05 pm Breakout session #2

3:10 pm – 3:30pm Final remarks and close (Room 308)

Today’s Agenda

Racquel Sevilla

Director of Immigrant Employment Initiatives,

TRIEC

Program Review: Building on our

Strengths

Who’s in the Room

• Association of Professionals in Thorncliffe

• Canadian Colombian Professional

Association

• Canadian Hispanic Lawyers Association

• Canadian Network of Iraqi Engineers and

Architects (CNIEA)

• Career Networking Club

• Chinese Workers Support Network

Professional Group

• CIMA Canada

• Communications, Advertising and Media

Professionals (CAMP Networking)

• Council of Filipino Canadian

Professionals of Ontario

• EXATEC ONTARIO

• I CAN SOW

• International Medical Graduates Waste-

Prevention Network

• JoinTheLeaders

• KCWA Family and Social Services

• Latin American MBA Alumni Network

(LAMBA)

• Latin Project Management Network

(LPMN)

• Muslim Association of Canada

• MANYATTA

• M-Bridge Culture Integration Society

for Professionals

• Mexican Talent Network, Toronto

Chapter

• New Canadian Media Professionals

• Nepalese Canadian Community

Services

• PINs@YorkU

• RDÉE Ontario

• TNO-IDEAS

• University of Asmara Alumni

• Women of Success

PINs Learning Exchange Video

Thank you to PINs sponsor and funder.

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Goal:To work collaboratively with professional immigrant associations

to increase their capacity to connect their skilled immigrant

members to employment.

Objectives: • Raise awareness of the associations to skilled immigrants

and to employers

• Foster collaboration between the associations and key

partners – employers, professional associations, service

providers, government, and other relevant stakeholders.

• Develop leaders of professional immigrant associations by

providing learning opportunities and refer them as experts on

immigrant employment at consultations and in the media.

Building on our Strengths

Recognition

• Model for Collaboration

• PINs associations

• PINs leaders as

spokespersons

Building on our Strengths

Network

Our PINs community is

represented by:

55 PINs associations represented by

over 100 leaders serving more than

30,000 members across the GTA

70 PINs partner organizations

including: community organizations,

employment agencies, post secondary

institutions and other stakeholders

Building on our Strengths

Collaborations and Partnerships

Community Matters Toronto

Building on our Strengths

Focus on Employment• PINs as a talent source

• 3 networking events

• Magnet pilot

• TRIEC programs and

resources

• PINs member survey

Building on our Strengths

Platform for Collaboration

• Staff and funding to deliver

program

• Website, online community

and communications tools

What’s Next?

TRIEC Priorities 2015/16

• Scale-up the Mentoring Partnership

• Sustain and enhance Connector model for scale

• Increase employer engagement

• TRIEC Campus: increase usage and develop new

tools

• Identify solutions to support immigrants who are

underemployed

• Pre-arrival program (pending funding): support

both immigrants and employers

What’s Next?

Raise Awareness

• Ramp-up awareness building and

outreach efforts

• Website revamp

What’s Next?

Foster collaboration

• Strengthen and develop the PINs

network

• Pathways for PINs members to

participate in TRIEC programs

• Quarterly meetings

• Employer connections

What’s Next?

Develop leaders

• E-learning modules with

facilitated sessions

• Speaking opportunities for PINs

leaders

• Volunteer Toronto’s “Grassroots

Growth” project

• Your members: membership survey

highlights

• Our network: introduction to networking

mapping and analysis

• Your associations: Video shoot for PINs

promotional video

• TRIEC programs: learn how your

members can benefit and explore how

we can work together

Today’s purpose

Closing Remarks & Thank You

• Please complete the Evaluation for today’s event in

your kits

• See you at the PINs Annual Networking Event!

May 6, 2015 at the Arcadian Loft 5:30 – 7:30pm