Brian Scharf and Dave Stewart,
Automotive program co-ordinators,
Loyalist College
Bulletin #2 September 2008
With the funding support of the Ministry’s Employment Ontario Network Development Fund, college frontline staff have been involved in the development of processes and resources to better support the success of students and clients in college-based Employment Ontario programs and services.
Discussions have taken place at individual colleges and at four regional events. Follow up actions are being planned and implemented.
Information is being shared via Bulletins 1,2 and 3, as well as individual college bulletins. Resource information is available on the web.
College frontline staff are working together to improve student and client outcomes!
The commitment to work together to improve student and client outcomes has never been greater among Ontario’s college staff working in Employment Ontario sponsored programs -including Apprenticeship, Job Connect, Academic Upgrading/Literacy and Basic Skills and Employment Assistance Services
This spring, more than 600 of you attended 22 individual college events.
College events provided a forum for staff to discuss improved referral processes and integration of services, additional resources for students and clients and an opportunity to network and gain additional insights into the Employment Ontario programs offered at each college.
Participant evaluations for the college events indicate the following:
Actions and recommendations were also developed at each college event and will be addressed throughout the year. Participants stressed that progress and results for these recommendations should be reviewed regularly.
Individual college newsletters which summarize these actions will be sent out to you via email.
All external links within this document were valid at the time of publication.
