Creating and sharing resources with our members is one of the many ways we work to help build their capacity. Over the past year, we developed several new resources carefully designed to address our members’ specific needs and the challenges they face. For example:
- To address the acute labour shortages in the long-term care sector exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, we launched a new National Occupational Standard (NOS) for Personal Care Providers as part of s part of our Building Capacity in Long-term Care For the first time ever, the NOS compiles and documents the duties, competencies, and skills required of the occupation. (SDG 4 & SDG 3)
- To enhance healthcare education and offer nursing, medical laboratory sciences, and paramedicine innovative hands-on learning experiences, educators across Canada can now freely access to over 130 new virtual simulations as part of our Virtu-WIL program. (SDG 4 & SDG 3)
“It was a wonderful opportunity to network across Canada with like-minded individuals who held the same passion for virtual simulation. The professional development sessions were extremely useful beyond the project itself. The creation of the virtual simulation was very professionally satisfying, and I was proud of the work completed.”
– Faculty Membe, Norquest College
- To support our member’s equity, diversity and inclusion goals, resources were created by the CICan Knowledge and Dissemination Centers as part of our CICan 50-30 Challenge Project. These resources are now available and complimentary to the Government of Canada’s What Works Toolkit – an online toolkit for Canadian organizations who are Participants of the 50-30 Challenge. (SDG 10)
- To help newcomers navigate the Canadian college and institute system and the many ways that colleges and institutes can fast track integration into the labour market, we also relaunched the Planning for Canada website with new resources to help newcomers navigate the Canadian college and institute system and many ways that colleges and institutes can fast track integration into the labour market.(SDG 4 & SDG 8)
Over the past year, 4,500 newcomers benefited from Planning for Canada’s pre-arrival services. “The Planning for Canada team equipped us with lots of information and contacts of agencies that supported us from Day 1. In no time, I had a job, too,” says Amar Desai who moved from India to Canada. “I’m glad I connected with Planning for Canada because not only did they guide us about the culture in Canada and what work-life is like, they also provided us with a personalized planning session to help us through the journey.”