Title:
Pre-employment and Skills Development Support for Racialized Immigrant Women
Agreement Number:
18121780
Agreement Value:
$2,617,088.00
Agreement Date:
Jul 22, 2022 - Dec 30, 2023
Description:
The key objetive of the Womens Employment Readiness Pilot Program is to:
- test pre-employment and skills development supports. These supports include foundational and transferable skills training (including literacy and essential skills or the Skills for Success Model) and wrap-around supports. Projects serve 1 or more of the 4 identified target groups.
o racialized women and/or Indigenous women
o women with disabilities
o women from the LGBTQ2 community
o women with prolonged detachment from the labour force
- test models to improve workplace inclusivity, where an employer is included in the project. For 1 or more of the target groups, projects would work with employers to improve:
o access to employment, or
o retention in the workplace
Organization:
Employment and Social Development Canada
Expected Results:
The expected outcomes for WER are:
Project participants:
- Gain access to pre-employment training and wrap-around supports
- Improve specified foundational and transferable skills (which can include literacy and essential skills or the Skills for Success Model)
- Improve their labour market outcomes (for example, seek further training/education or found a job and job retention)
Employers:
- Increase their awareness of inclusivity barriers in their workplace
- Adopt measures to improve the inclusivity of their workforce (for example, manager training, staff training, changes to human resources policies and practices, etc.)
- Employers and their workplaces become more inclusive
Training Providers:
- Training providers (which may be the recipients or organizations the recipient partners with) gain a better understanding of effective training and supports for the target groups.
Location:
Calgary, Alberta, CA
Reference Number:
141-2022-2023-Q2-02676
Agreement Type:
Contribution
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Business Number:
118823657RP0001
Recipient Type:
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Amendment Date
Jun 9, 2023
Recipient's Operating Name:
Calgary Immigrant Women's Association
Recipient's Legal Name:
Calgary Immigrant Women's Association
Program:
Women Employment Readiness
Program Purpose:
The purpose of the Women’s Employment Readiness pilot program is to fund organizations that will provide and test pre-employment and skills development supports for women. The pilot also tests ways to improve workplace inclusivity by working with employers.