Completed Projects (since 2002)
Workplace Assessment, Language and Bridging Initiatives (2002-2006)
Access to Trades Project
This pilot intends to enhance the access and success of internationally trained trades persons applying for apprenticeship and writing trades qualification examinations. The pilot will identify best practices related to successful assessment strategies; identify linkages with related national/provincial level initiatives; make recommendations for appropriate responses to the needs of internationally-trained trades persons in four areas: electrical, plumbing, refrigeration, and carpentry; and, identify resources required to benchmark trades credentials against Canadian standards. This project was launched in partnership with Kwantlen University College.
Bridge to Your Future
To develop specific tools: an employment readiness assessment; an employment and program assistance matrix and a "Passport to Work" that summarizes the immigrant’s personal employment goals.
Experiential Dietetic Practice Pilot
This project delivers a coordinated workplace practice opportunity for foreign-trained Dietitians to gain the required 500 hours Canadian work experience to qualify for licensure in BC. This program was launched in partnership with Langara College.
Foreign Trained Nurses Cultural Orientation Pilot
This initiative intended to prepare internationally trained nurses to write the Canadian Registered Nurses Exam required for all nursing professionals seeking entrance into the profession. This pilot was launched in partnership with UBC's Centre for Intercultural Studies and the Registered Nurses Association of BC.
Immigrants and the World of Work
This pilot intends publish 12,000 copies of a booklet that contains a series of previously published articles addressing common employment issues facing immigrants. The booklet will be produced in the following languages: English, Chinese, Vietnamese, Spanish, Punjabi, Korean, and Russian. This pilot was launched in partnership with Immigrants Services Society of BC and the United Way of Greater Vancouver.
Internationally Trained Engineers Pilot
This pilot intends to develop a service model that will help internationally trained engineers in their efforts to become integrated into the engineering workplace and registered as professionals. The components of the pilot include: a professional work experience and training component for foreign-trained newcomers; a policies and procedures review for the regulatory body; and the enhancement of information services to improve understanding of international qualifications issues and the realities of the job market.
A fourth component of the pilot includes an independent assessment to determine whether the objectives were met and whether the overall approach and initiatives are applicable to the broader International Qualifications Program. This project was launched in partnership with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC and the Quadra Planning Group.
Language Assessment Tool for the Nursing Profession
This initiative will result in the development of a valid and reliable task-based assessment tool to measure the language skills of foreign trained nurses. The tool is expected to benefit nursing colleges, licensing bodies and health care employers by offering them an accurate picture of the English language abilities of foreign-trained nurse’s intent on practicing the Profession in Canada. This pilot was launched in partnership with the Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, and the Government of Ontario.
Transition to Nursing in BC Pilot
This pilot will support the development of three registration qualifying courses, an IELTS preparation module, clinical guidelines, and the conversion of these courses/modules for web delivery. This pilot was launched in partnership with the Open Learning Agency (now Thompson River University).
EASI Initiative
The project was composed of several phases to develop an employment-focused internet portal for immigrants, employers and service providers in BC. This pilot was launched in partnership with the EASI Internet Portal Working Group, the YWCA of Vancouver, Tangelo Consulting Group, and Susan Simosko Associates Ltd.
Needs Assessment and Environmental Scans (2002-2006)
Credentialing and Employment of Skilled Immigrant Workers in the Fraser Valley Regional District
To develop alliances and partnerships (educators, immigrants, and employers) that will identify recommendations that will assist immigrants with professional training.
Northwest Immigrant Skills and Services Project
To provide a skills inventory of landed immigrants, identify relevant support agencies and service providers to assist in labour market attachment, and identify employers seeking matching skills within the North coast communities of Prince Rupert, Port Edward, Masset, Queen Charlotte City, Skidegate, Tlell and surrounding First Nations communities of Metlakatla, Port Simpson, Hartley Bay and Kitkatla area.
Skilled Immigrants and Labour Market Access in the Capital Region
To conduct a needs assessment, environmental scan, and facilitated strategic planning process involving a broad range of stakeholders to build regional capacity to address the labour market integration of skilled immigrants in the Capital Region District.
Inventory of Assessment Tools for Skilled Immigrants
To inventory and analyze the delivery of existing assessment tools used within the Lower Mainland to assess skilled immigrants in the following areas: English language proficiency, essential skills, academic qualifications, technical skills, employability skills.
Enhancing the Labour Market Attachment of Skilled Immigrants within the Okanagan
To complete an environmental scan of career assessment and planning services and integrated bridging services for skilled immigrants, support the conceptualization and development of resources, to assess the capacity of existing resources, and to develop a series of recommendations that will inform future labour market attachment initiatives within the region.
Resources to Provide Direct Labour Market Information to BC’s Skilled Immigrants
To develop a listing of professional and trade associations to support the flow of essential information to the skilled immigrant job seeker and to develop recommendations to assist professional and trade associations to develop services specifically designed for the skilled immigrant.
An Employer Survey of the Under-Employment of Skilled Immigrants
To identify skills and attributes required by a variety of employers to facilitate the labour market entry of skilled immigrants.
A Survey of Skilled Immigrants with Long-Term Attachment to the Labour Market
To identify the skills, attributes, and course of action taken by skilled immigrants who have overcome employment and language-related barriers and established long-term labour market attachment.
Services Review to Identify Providers of English Language Instruction with a Labour Market Component in BC
Additionally, the Settlement and Multiculturalism Branch of the Ministry of Community, Aboriginal and Women’s Services provided funding to support a province-wide survey to identify what labour market and language services are available and identify accessibility for labour market destined immigrants.
HRSD/IQP Pilot Forum
This initiative intended to organize a one-day forum involving IQP pilot proponents and Human Resources Skills Development (HRSD) regional and local staff to identify outputs of the projects that would be of value to HRSD and to identify areas where further work might be done. This pilot was launched in partnership with Greg Tolliday & Associates and Human Resources Skills Development Canada.
Strategic Plans and Best Practices (2002-2006)
Engaging Employers to Examine Labour Market Attachment for Skilled Immigrants
To engage employers across BC to identify attitudes and practices that positively affect the labour market attachment of skilled immigrants, and develop recommendations to enhance labour market attachment efforts.
Skilled Immigrants as Community Assets
To support the conceptualization and/or development of strategic integrated bridging services for skilled immigrants in the Nanaimo area.
Benchmarking of Bridging Programs for Skilled Immigrants in BC
To assist in the future evaluation of bridging programs for skilled immigrants by benchmarking existing bridging programs found in B.C. and across Canada and creating an evaluation framework based on these benchmarks.
Promising Practices in Workplace Practice Opportunities
To describe the role that workplace practice opportunities play in the full range of training, educating and employing skilled immigrants.
Comprehensive Assessment and Career Planning Services of BC’s Skilled Immigrants
To research and identify best practices of career assessment and planning services and develop a comprehensive career assessment and planning model that can be incorporated in whole or in part by the multiple stakeholders working with skilled immigrants.
Towards an Integrated Assessment and Bridging Program in BC’s Construction Industry
To develop a comprehensive strategic plan to increase the employment of skilled immigrants among construction contractors.
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