Searching for Academic Upgrading

Courses designed for adult learners who want to complete their high school diploma

• focus on reading, writing, mathematics, and social sciences
  
• LINC/ESL/FSL (Language Instruction for Newcomers, English as a Second Language, French as a Second Language)
  
• Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR)

Literacy and basic skills training including numeracy, digital, communication and interpersonal skills

• helps learners prepare for employment, apprenticeship, secondary-school credit, post-secondary education and greater independence

The centre primarily assists those who are out of work, and youth who are out of school to assess their skills and employment potential

• various programs assist job seekers with their job search activities and on the job training

Major Programs and Services:

Ontario Employment Services:

• an employment experience program
• candidates get the training and experience needed to find a job
• individual employment counselling
• job search techniques
• job placements (subsidized,unsubsidized and apprenticeship)
• educational upgrading
• career focusing
• for more information see separate listing here

Pre-Apprenticeship/Apprenticeship programs:

• candidates experience the trades through free on the job training
• program runs annually
• recruitment begins in January of each year pending funding

Resource Room:

• drop-in or by appointment
• self-directed access to information on careers
• training opportunities
• employment workshops
• job bank
• client phone for job search

Computer services:
Free of charge, available to those using for job search, training and education (including life-long learning)

• computers with Internet
• web-based e-mail
• Microsoft 2016 Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• USB drive/flashdrive/memory stick ports
• FAX (sending only)
• free printing (max. 20 pages per day)
• scanner
• some sites, such as game sites, are blocked

Employment & Upgrading Preparation program:

• assists adults with improving their reading and writing to enhance their employment skills

Courses designed for adult learners who want to complete their high school diploma

• focus on reading, writing, mathematics, and social sciences
• individuals successfully completing the program receive Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD)

Course options include: The Bridges to Success (BTS) program

• online courses tailored to 18 to 21 year olds

Adult Class Credit Courses

• teacher-directed courses in an in-class environment for students who are 21 years of age and older

Adult eCredit courses

• fully online courses for students who are 21 years of age and older

Provides adults in Halton Region the opportunity to achieve secondary school credits

Programs include:
* Bridges to Success (BTS) Credit Program (ages 18-20)
* Adult Class Credit (ages 21 and over)
* Adult Dual Credit (ages 21 and over)
* Adult eCredit (AEC) Online Program (ages 21 and over)
* Cooperative Education Credit
* International Languages Credit (Night School)
* Maturity Prior Learning Assessment (MPLAR) Credits
* Night School Credit
* Summer School Credit
* Guidance and Career Counselling

Adult High School Diploma Program
* for more information, see here

Adult ESL/FSL (English or French as a Second Language) and LINC classes (non-credit)
* for more information, see here

Literacy and basic skills training, including numeracy, digital, communication and interpersonal skills

• helps learners prepare for employment, apprenticeship, secondary school credit, post-secondary education and greater independence
  
• participants work at their own pace
  
• small-group setting

Provides Youth Worker contracted services to these initiatives to support students who are at risk of not completing grade 12 or who have returned to school to complete grade 12. The services supports training and facilitation of restorative justice to further explore goal development, social, emotional, and cognitive skill development. The aim is to support students to reach success and graduate Grade 12.

Provides young mothers in the east end of Hamilton the opportunity to attend high school in an alternative education setting with on-site child care for their children.

Literacy and basic skills training, including numeracy, digital, communication and interpersonal skills.

Helps learners prepare for employment, apprenticeship, secondary-school credit, post-secondary education and greater independence.

CNIB Deafblind Community Services offers this program for those with visual and hearing impairments.

Literacy and basic skills training, including numeracy, digital, communication and interpersonal skills. Helps learners prepare for employment, apprenticeship, secondary-school credits, post-secondary education and greater independence.

Provides individualized one-on-one lessons for adult students looking to learn skills in reading, math, computers, or spelling

Literacy and basic skills referring network, including numeracy, digital, communication and interpersonal skills. Helps learners prepare for employment, apprenticeship, secondary-school credit, post-secondary education and greater independence.

Literacy and basic skills training, including numeracy, digital, communication and interpersonal skills. Helps learners prepare for employment, apprenticeship, secondary-school credit, post-secondary education and greater independence.

Courses designed for adult learners who want to complete their high school diploma. Focus on reading, writing, mathematics, and social sciences.

Program is designed for adult learners interested in developing computer skills, upgrading their academic skills and completing their secondary education. Provides the opportunity for students who have recently left high school with minimal credits to achieve a number of high school credits through the Mature PLAR process. Credit courses are offered during the day only and operate in five sessions of six weeks.

Students complete one credit per session, spending the remainder of the school day building the skills required to successfully complete their PLAR tests, receiving extra support on their course materials or completing a second credit using Independent Study course materials.

Literacy and basic skills training, including numeracy, digital, communication and interpersonal skills. Helps learners prepare for employment, apprenticeship, secondary-school credit, post-secondary education and greater independence.

Offers young parents an opportunity to earn secondary school credits for learning and demonstrating effective parenting practices. The curriculum is developed to support hands-on, experiential based learning. The parents bring their infants to the classroom every day. The classroom is set up to meet the needs of the parent's learning and the infant's care.

Offers services to develop literacy, numeracy, and essential skills to assist participants in transitioning to employment, apprenticeship, secondary-school credit, post-secondary education, or independence.

Courses designed for adult learners who want to complete their high school diploma. Focus on reading, writing, mathematics, and social sciences.

Literacy and basic skills training, including numeracy, digital, communication and interpersonal skills. Helps learners prepare for employment, apprenticeship, secondary-school credits, post-secondary education and greater independence.

Literacy and basic skills training, including numeracy, digital, communication and interpersonal skills. Helps learners prepare for employment, apprenticeship, secondary-school credits, post-secondary education and greater independence.

Courses designed for adult learners who want to complete their high school diploma with a focus on reading, writing, mathematics, and social sciences.

Literacy and basic skills training, including numeracy, digital, communication and interpersonal skills. Helps learners prepare for employment, apprenticeship, secondary-school credit, post-secondary education and greater independence.

Courses designed for adult learners who want to complete their high school diploma. Focus on reading, writing, mathematics, and social sciences.

Program is designed for adult learners interested in developing computer skills, upgrading their academic skills and completing their secondary education. Provides the opportunity for students who have recently left high school with minimal credits to achieve a number of high school credits through the Mature PLAR process. Credit courses are offered during the day only and operate in five sessions of six weeks.

Students complete one credit per session, spending the remainder of the school day building the skills required to successfully complete their PLAR tests, receiving extra support on their course materials or completing a second credit using Independent Study course materials.