Friday, January 15, 2021 at 13:23:48 Eastern Standard Time Page 1 of 9 Subject: First Work Member Update - Week of January 15th, 2021 Date: Friday, January 15, 2021 at 1:22:07 PM Eastern Standard Time From: First Work Week of January 15th DOWNLOAD THE MEMBER UPDATE IN PDF FORMAT Contents 1. First Work Updates SSM Monitoring Communities of Practice – Recruitment Launching January 18th Amplify Save the Date! 2. Youth Opportunities Aspire + Landscape Ontario: Aspire to GROW RBC Career Launch Program - 5PM Application Deadline! 3. Ontario Update Expanding Eligibility for Emergency Child Care in Southern Ontario Ontario Declares Second Provincial Emergency to Address COVID-19 Crisis Ontario Temporarily Pauses Residential Evictions Ontario Provides Funding for Autism Training 4. Federal Update: Consultation to strengthen Canadians’ online safety 5. Member Job Postings
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Friday, January 15, 2021 at 13:23:48 Eastern Standard Time
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Subject: First Work Member Update - Week of January 15th, 2021 Date: Friday, January 15, 2021 at 1:22:07 PM Eastern Standard Time From: First Work
Week of January 15th DOWNLOAD THE MEMBER UPDATE IN PDF FORMAT
Contents
1. First Work UpdatesSSM MonitoringCommunities of Practice – Recruitment Launching January18thAmplify Save the Date!
2. Youth OpportunitiesAspire + Landscape Ontario: Aspire to GROWRBC Career Launch Program - 5PM Application Deadline!
3. Ontario UpdateExpanding Eligibility for Emergency Child Care in SouthernOntarioOntario Declares Second Provincial Emergency to AddressCOVID-19 CrisisOntario Temporarily Pauses Residential EvictionsOntario Provides Funding for Autism Training
4. Federal Update: Consultation to strengthen Canadians’ onlinesafety
5. Member Job Postings
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First Work Updates
SSM Monitoring
First Work has been working to establish a monitoring system tokeep our members abreast of the SSM transition. Our goal is toidentify the successes, challenges and gaps in thetransformation landscape to keep our members informed of theprogress and to identify advocacy and policy solutions for thefollowing phases of transformation.
Over the coming weeks, First Work will be releasing our firstwave of monitoring reporting from the SSMs. All of thisinformation will be available via our members-only portal.
Today, we are releasing the summary report of the Overview ofthe Transition Plan and Roll Out of Service Delivery Modelin Catchment Areas and the summary SSM QAs from theirparticipation in Futures’20. You can find these materials in ourmembers-only portal.
First Work is also currently establishing an SSM MonitoringCommittee.
The purpose of this group is to have ESPs in the catchmentareas meet to discuss their ongoing experiences. First WorkMembers in 3 catchment areas will come together to discusstheir various successes, challenges, and gaps in the prototyperegions. Through these meetings and discussions, First Workwill provide a summary report that will also be shared as aresource for members in the organization.
If your organization is in catchment and you would like toparticipate, please reach out to [email protected] with the
Communities of Practice – Recruitment Launching January 18th
First Work is thrilled to be launching recruitment for our upcomingCommunities of Practice!
Communities of Practice (CoPs) are groups of practitioners whoconvene regularly to identify common problems in their work andcollaborate to create and trial new solutions. First Work’sCommunities of Practice for Employment Service Providers are forproviders with varied experience in Second Career, Canada-OntarioJob Grant or Youth Job Connection or similar programs.
First Work’s CoPs for ESPs are designed to harvest knowledge frompractitioners with on-the-ground experience to create and test solutionsto increase our positive impact on Ontario’s employment landscape.
Keep an eye on our website for additional details on Monday!
Not sure what a Community of Practice is?
Join us on January 27th at 1:00pm to learn about Communities of Practice,how CoPs operate to push forward positive change, and why the idea of CoPsmay sound familiar to First Work members.
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Register now!
Amplify Save the Date!
Mark your calendars! First Work’s professional development conferenceAmplify is taking place on April 12, 2021!
Youth Opportunities
Aspire + Landscape Ontario: Aspire to GROW
First Work and Landscape Ontario are excited to announce the firstAspire event of the year!
Is a 9-5 office job not for you? Landscape Ontario’s GROW program isa great opportunity to get your foot in the door and explore an exciting,hands-on career path in landscape and horticulture.
Aspire to GROW is a 3-hour career exploration event including:
an information session on Landscape Ontario’s GROWProgram, a six-week virtual training opportunity for unemployedyouth 18+,networking breakouts with past GROW graduates and industryprofessionals, anddigital career pathway exploration with Project Integrate (includinga $10 completion incentive!).
Aspire to GROWFriday, January 22nd 1:00-4:00PM
Networking during the COVID-19 pandemic is no easy feat, so this is agreat opportunity for our youth to put themselves out there and opendoors to exciting careers!
Register for the event here.
Please feel free to reach out to Kristen Lattip, [email protected],should you have any questions.
RBC Career Launch Program - 5PM Application Deadline!
RBC Career Launch is back and First Work is now acceptingapplicants!
First Work is partnering with RBC again this year for an exclusivepartnership to engage youth who are not in employment, education, ortraining (NEET). This partnership with First Work gives those withadditional education barriers an opportunity to participate in this one-year paid internship program.
Candidates are required to be first screened by our memberorganizations ensuring youth meet all the eligibility criteria listed belowand submit an application to First Work by January 15th at 5:00pm.First Work will then conduct the final screening before sendingcandidates forward to RBC for their application deadline of January18th.
Please see attached for full program details and eligibility criteria.
Please note, this partnership between RBC Career Launch and FirstWork is unique, and therefore the strict eligibility criteria differ from thepublic recruitment for RBC Career Launch Program. If you havecandidates who do not meet the eligibility requirement above, you mayredirect those youth to apply directly for RBC Career Launch Programthrough their public channels.
Ontario Update
Expanding Eligibility for Emergency Child Care in SouthernOntario
The Ontario government will be expanding eligibility for the targetedemergency childcare program to more frontline workers in order to helpthe parents of school-aged children who may not be able to supporttheir child's learning/care at home because they are required to reportto work in person.
The list of new additions to the list of those eligible for Emergency ChildCare can be found here.
Ontario Declares Second Provincial Emergency to AddressCOVID-19 Crisis
The Ontario government declared a second provincial emergency onTuesday in consultation with the Chief Medical Officer of Health. As of Thursday, the government has issued a stay-at-home order. Thisrequires everyone to remain at home, limiting people’s mobility, toreduce the number of daily contacts with those outside an immediatehousehold. There are exceptions for permitted purposes, however theregulations released have not provided much clarity in the way of whatis deemed essential. Allotments to leave home include: going to thegrocery store or pharmacy, accessing health care services, for exerciseor for work, only where the work cannot be done remotely.
Public Health Units do have the authority to require workplaces to shutdown; however, the province is putting the onus on employers todetermine which staff can work remotely.
A list of the addition public health measures that are being enforced canbe found here.
Ontario Temporarily Pauses Residential Evictions
The Ontario government has issued an emergency order to temporarilypause the enforcement of residential evictions and ensure people arenot forced to leave their homes during the provincial declaration ofemergency. This emergency order will also protect homeowners whoare facing evictions due to court orders for possession of theirproperties.
Ontario Provides Funding for Autism Training
The Ontario government is providing $7.5 million to help educatorsbetter support children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The funding willbe used to deliver online courses and training opportunities for teachers
and educational assistants in all 72 of Ontario's district school boardsstarting in 2021.
In addition to online training, Ontario is investing in subsidies foreducators to take the ASD-specific Additional Qualification course, andfunding to build the capacity of school leaders to support students onthe autism spectrum.
Federal Update
Consultation to strengthen Canadians’ online safety
The Federal Government is currently undertaking consultations tostrengthen measures protecting against cyber-attacks. Botnets facilitatesome of the most damaging cyber-attacks, including ransomware andidentity theft and can cause significant harm to Canadians, businessesand organizations that provide critical services.
Participate in the consultation by March 15th through the online form.
Member Job Postings
In the spirit of sector collaboration, particularly with our new normal, wenow will be accepting job postings from our members for internalpositions, so we can use our network to help secure your nextorganizational hire. If you have a posting that you want to share with ourmembers, please send to [email protected] with the subject line:Member Job Posting. Please include the closing date for the applicationas well.
Ontario Nonprofit Network is looking for early career policy generalistwith a gift for writing who is passionate about advocacy and publicpolicy development. The Policy Analyst will contribute to theachievement of ONN’s policy agenda through research, analysis, andwriting, as well as engaging the ONN network in policy advocacycampaigns.
Position: Policy AnalystClosing date: January 27th, 2021
Ontario Association of Adult & Continuing Education School BoardAdministrators (CESBA) is in search of a full-time Executive Director.CESBA is a non-profit organization governed by a Board of Directorswhich operates as a Policy Governance board. The Executive Directoris accountable to the board for the achievement of conditionsfavourable to the delivery of exemplary adult and continuing educationby Ontario school boards.
Position: Executive DirectorClosing date: January 31st, 2021
Do you have some important news or information about newprograms to share with our community members? We wouldlove to hear from you! Please email us at [email protected]
