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  • Health Care Aide

    This regular project is a funded pathway program for newcomers to Alberta who are interested in having a career as a licensed Health Care Aides. This program is specifically designed for learners who do not yet meet the English language proficiency requirements for direct entry into the Health Care Aide Certificate program. With this course, learners take part in a full-time language program for an additional semester to improve their language skills for health care environments and prepare to enter the Health Care Aide Certificate program.

  • Skills Enhancement

    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

  • Putting Strengths to Work

    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.

  • Service Learning

    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

    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.

    Our focus is specifically on practices that fall outside the boundaries of standard approaches to inclusion and integration processes.

  • Service Desk Technician

    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”. 

  • Safe Choices & Workplaces

    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.

  • Anti-racist Actions at Bow Valley College

    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.

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Contact Us

For more information on our applied research projects contact 403-410-3400 or email sgareception@bowvalleycollege.ca

Contact Us

For more information on our applied research projects contact 403-410-3400 or email sgareception@bowvalleycollege.ca

Our Resources

We offer a wide range of resources focused on language and workforce development. We are committed to sharing our expertise. Learn more

Our Resources

We offer a wide range of resources focused on language and workforce development. We are committed to sharing our expertise. Learn more

What's New

Our innovative applied research projects focus on immigrant advancement, diversity and inclusion, civic engagement, and resource development. Learn more

What's New

Our innovative applied research projects focus on immigrant advancement, diversity and inclusion, civic engagement, and resource development. Learn more

Current Projects

Entrepreneurial and academic endeavors grounded in creating opportunities that support all learners, employers, and community partners.

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Applied Research Projects
Health Care Aide for English Language Learners
Health Care Aide for English Language Learners

September 2021 to December 2024

This regular project is a funded pathway program for newcomers to Alberta who are interested in having a career as a licensed Health Care Aides. This program is specifically designed for learners who do not yet meet the English language proficiency requirements for direct entry into the Health Care Aide Certificate program.

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Health Care Aide for English Language Learners
Health Care Aide for English Language Learners

September 2021 to December 2024

This regular project is a funded pathway program for newcomers to Alberta who are interested in having a career as a licensed Health Care Aides. This program is specifically designed for learners who do not yet meet the English language proficiency requirements for direct entry into the Health Care Aide Certificate program.

Skills Enhancement for Newcomers
Skills Enhancement for Newcomers

November 2021 to February 2024

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.

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Skills Enhancement for Newcomers
Skills Enhancement for Newcomers

November 2021 to February 2024

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.

Putting Strengths to Work
Putting Strengths to Work

April 2023 to March 2025

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.

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Putting Strengths to Work
Putting Strengths to Work

April 2023 to March 2025

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.

Sharing Our Results

Facilitating knowledge mobilization ensures our applied research goes beyond the page and into the community.

We are committed to sharing and translating our work not only with our academic colleagues both on campus and beyond, but with project stakeholders, policy makers, sector and community agencies, employers, learners, and the public at large.

Some examples of our knowledge mobilization efforts include:

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Applied Research Projects
Publications
Embracing complexity: Co-Creation with retired immigrant women

A central component in the end-of-grant phase of all applied research work is publishing articles in peer reviewed journals of record. This article discussing the results of the Enhancing Wellbeing and Civic Engagement of Immigrant Women Retirees project was a key element of our knowledge mobilization plan.

https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/ijcre/article/view/6342
Publications
Embracing complexity: Co-Creation with retired immigrant women

A central component in the end-of-grant phase of all applied research work is publishing articles in peer reviewed journals of record. This article discussing the results of the Enhancing Wellbeing and Civic Engagement of Immigrant Women Retirees project was a key element of our knowledge mobilization plan.

Resources
Supporting Immigrant Women Seniors: A Toolkit for Service Providers

This toolkit is an outcome of Enhancing Wellbeing and Civic Engagement of Immigrant Women Retirees and it offers service providers information and resources relevant to meeting the needs of this growing population.

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Resources
Supporting Immigrant Women Seniors: A Toolkit for Service Providers

This toolkit is an outcome of Enhancing Wellbeing and Civic Engagement of Immigrant Women Retirees and it offers service providers information and resources relevant to meeting the needs of this growing population.

In the community
Methods for Change Workshop

Our Enhancing the Wellbeing of Immigrant Women Retirees research team welcomed more than 25 interdisciplinary academics and service providers to a collaborative workshop and research panel focused on co-creation methodology and community-based applied research.

In the community
Methods for Change Workshop

Our Enhancing the Wellbeing of Immigrant Women Retirees research team welcomed more than 25 interdisciplinary academics and service providers to a collaborative workshop and research panel focused on co-creation methodology and community-based applied research.

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