This project was a funded pathway program for newcomers to Alberta who were interested in having a career as a licensed Health Care Aide. This program was specifically designed for students who do not yet meet the English language proficiency requirements for direct entry into the Health Care Aide Certificate program. This pilot program is no longer offered.
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Skills Enhancement for Newcomers is a national initiative by Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan) and is funded by the Government of Canada’s Skills for Success program. Bow Valley College was selected to be the lead institution in a working group of seven post-secondary institutions across Canada, along with an Employer Advisory Group and nineteen delivery institutions across Canada. Focusing on three of the nine Skills for Success necessary for thriving in learning, work, and life, Skills Enhancement for Newcomers saw the development of three microcredentials that address
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Immigrants to Alberta bring with them exceptional skills, knowledge, and experience that can benefit themselves, their families, and all Albertans. However, they often experience barriers to leveraging their skills to attain and retain work that is commensurate with their skills and that helps Alberta’s economy to flourish. As such, this just-in-time job readiness offering helps them identify, develop, and apply their skills to in-demand jobs.
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This structured service learning program for professional and skilled immigrants will provide opportunities for newcomers to make community connections and gain experience in Canadian workplaces, all while improving language and intercultural communication.
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This project was a funded pathway program for newcomers to Alberta who were interested in having a career as a licensed Health Care Aide. This program was specifically designed for students who do not yet meet the English language proficiency requirements for direct entry into the Health Care Aide Certificate program. This pilot program is no longer offered.
Skills Enhancement for Newcomers is a national initiative by Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan) and is funded by the Government of Canada’s Skills for Success program. Bow Valley College was selected to be the lead institution in a working group of seven post-secondary institutions across Canada, along with an Employer Advisory Group and nineteen delivery institutions across Canada. Focusing on three of the nine Skills for Success necessary for thriving in learning, work, and life, Skills Enhancement for Newcomers saw the development of three microcredentials that address
Immigrants to Alberta bring with them exceptional skills, knowledge, and experience that can benefit themselves, their families, and all Albertans. However, they often experience barriers to leveraging their skills to attain and retain work that is commensurate with their skills and that helps Alberta’s economy to flourish. As such, this just-in-time job readiness offering helps them identify, develop, and apply their skills to in-demand jobs.
This structured service learning program for professional and skilled immigrants will provide opportunities for newcomers to make community connections and gain experience in Canadian workplaces, all while improving language and intercultural communication.
Where I belong: public spaces and everyday acts of inclusion seeks to increase our understanding of practices within public spaces that promote belonging among racialized, newcomer youth.
This project explores, pilots, and evaluates how public spaces can foster inclusion and belonging.
Responding to a gap between identified workplace needs and current training offerings for the growing numbers of IT service desk technician positions, this program prepares newcomer learners for the Alberta job market.
This two-year project, beginning October 2021, saw two cohorts of roughly 20 learners complete 400 hours course work and a work practicum placement. The first cohort of learners started in January 2022 and the second cohort in May 2022. As part of this project, we delivered a program pilot “Service Desk Technician: A Certificate for English Language Learners”.
Developed by School of Global Access language learning experts, this communication training module for Alberta’s Health Care Aide Workers is a set of workshops combined with coaching that focuses on health and safety communications training for English language learners and is an excellent complement to the Health Care Aide Certificate.
To address a need for anti-racist action on our campus and across our community, an exploratory project funded by the Bow Valley College General Research Fund collected data to investigate how and what anti-racist resources might best support our learners, our diversity and inclusion efforts, and our wider campus community.
