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Literacy/essential skills instruction:
- training in reading, writing, math, and computer skills
- help adults to go on to further education, or increase their independence, enter into apprenticeship
- main focus is on unemployed adults
- open to employed Ontarians who need to improve their literacy skills in order to maintain or upgrade their work skills
- educational/literacy assessments
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Personalized services to support youth in difficult situations:
- day respite services
- legal, academic and financial support
- academic mentoring, tutoring, career guidance
- pre-sentence reports, capacity assessments
- accompaniment to court, probation, medical or legal appointments
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Provides employment and training services to clients, primarily from the Akwesasne Territory
Programs include:
Programs include:
- payroll and administration services to local businesses and organizations
- Business Services for Employers (Sponsorship Programs)
- Mohawk Language Training
- board room rentals
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Investments in local sustainable economic development:
- business loans
- business counselling
- Rural Innovation Initiative Eastern Ontario Program
- information and referral
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Employment, housing and entrepreneurship services for ACB and immigrant women
Services include:
Services include:
- Black Women Entrepreneurship HUB (BWEH) Business Incubator and Accelerator (BIA)
- Employment Information Hub (BWEIH)
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Program that allows access to post-secondary studies
- aims to train Ontario workers who recently lost their job to access a new career path in a high growth sector
- offered at the Ottawa campus (801 Aviation Parkway, Ottawa, K1K 4R3), Alphonse Desjardins Campus, Minto Trades Centre (8 700 Jeanne d'Arc blvd, Orléans, ON, K4A 0S9), the Hawkesbury campus (570 Kitchener St, Hawkesbury, ON K6A 2P3) and in Alfred (31 Paul St, Alfred, ON, K0B 1A0)
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Offers integrated health and social services:
- counselling
- crisis intervention
- information and referral
- community development
- home support programs
- health promotion activities
- primary health care with a 24-hour on-call service
- smoking cessation
- parenting teens program
- community connections for newcomers
- anonymous HIV testing
- walk-in counselling services
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Literacy instruction to deafblind adults in their preferred method of communication
- students have the opportunity to reach their goals and enhance their link to the environment
- numeracy
- communication
- reading and writing
- daily living skills
- basic computer instruction
- literacy, numeracy and essential skills services that help learners transition to their goals of employment, apprenticeship, secondary-school credit, post-secondary education or independence
- support in clarifying upgrading goals and developing a training plan to achieve them
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Traditional, Aboriginal program to find meaningful work and/or training
- modeled on the teachings of the Medicine Wheel
- going back to school
- upgrading
- training
- confidence building
- career guidance
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OT/Kin Rehabilitative Services
Office: 613-237-7368Office: 1-888-862-3825
Office: 1-800-855-0511
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Offers occupational therapy and kinesiology intervention to support individuals experiencing a variety of clinical and physical difficulties
Services include:
Services include:
- home-based cognitive work hardening program
- occupational therapy coaching
- pool program
- dragon naturally speaking training
- personal training
- progressive goal attainment (PGAP)
- individualized occupational therapy
- work hardening programs
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Vocational Evaluation Services
Office: 613-237-7368Toll Free Fax: 1-888-862-3825
1-800-855-0511
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Evaluations to identify any return to work barriers and develop a plan to increase the opportunity for reintegration
Services:
Services:
- home-based cognitive work hardening program
- educational and professional guidance program
- adapting to change
- job search program
- intensive career exploration
- vocational rehabilitation phase
- occupational therapy - early intervention
- post offer of employment test (POET)
- vocational enhancement assessment
- workplace accommodation assessment
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Promotes occupational education, training and development of adults with disabilities
ODSP Services
ODSP Services
- guides and empowers individuals to making the right life changing decisions with respect to regular employment challenges
- helps and supports regular employment of people with disabilities by identifying skills and abilities to develop tools meeting their specific needs to intergrate the workforce
- assists with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) Compliance Review for implementation of the guidelines
- free Workplace Diversitfication Training about working with individuals with disablities
- job coaching support and on the job training to help make the transition of returning to work possible for both the client and the employer
- alleviate initial training costs to the employer through wage subsidy programs
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Disability Management Services (DMS)
Office: 613-237-7368Office: 1-888-862-3825
Office: 1-800-855-0511
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Assist individuals who are recovering from illness or injury transition successfully back to employment
- cost effective
- designed to reduce absenteeism and increase productivity
- one-on-one format to build confidence
- outines an agreeable plan for success full return to normal work
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Alternative Learning Styles and Outlooks (ALSO) - Literacy and Basic Skills
Office: 613-233-8660Visit Website
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Adult upgrading including reading, writing, numeracy, digital, communication
- offers a Deaf Adult upgrading program as well, language of instruction is ASL
- helps learners prepare for employment, apprenticeship, secondary-school credit, post-secondary education and greater independence
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Food Services and Employment Skills Training Program - Gourmet Xpress
Office: 613-742-4400 ext 3Visit Website
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Gourmet Xpress is a social enterprise offering
- hands-on training in a commercial kitchen
- supports individuals who have barriers to employment or are unable to maintain employment in the food industry
- three-month intensive training to gain work experience focused on developing essential skills and competencies in the workplace
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Group that comes together to share and compare information, ideas, notes and strategies
- geared towards those who are currently employed and looking for a new career, or career advancement
- inclusive
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Psychological assessment and counselling centre provided by doctoral students and their supervising psychologists:
- offers training for doctoral students in clinical psychology
- provides psychological services such as diagnosic assessment and treatment, in both English and French, to the Ottawa-Gatineau area
- conducts research
- career counselling
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Literacy and Basic Skills:
Learners are tutored individually by trained teachers in weekly sessions which take place in the Society's offices
Financial Literacy Program:
- 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
Learners are tutored individually by trained teachers in weekly sessions which take place in the Society's offices
- meeting times are flexible
- computer workshops available on site
Financial Literacy Program:
- personal mentoring to help develop skills for managing money on a daily basis
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Personal employment counseling services
- assessment
- application assistance for the Ontario Disability Support Program - Employment Supports and MAESD Cornwall
- supported employment
- vocational rehabilitation
- employment planning
- career coaching
- work placements
- services to employers
- disability awareness and etiquette training
- Employment Supports
- Ministry of Children
- Community and Social Services
- Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
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Ontario Disability Support Program - Employment Supports, Ottawa - 351 Preston St
1-800-267-5111 Office: 613-234-1188
Office : 613-787-3951
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Helps people with disabilities prepare for, find, and maintain employment
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Temporary financial assistance and support in finding new employment
Family Supplement: for low income families who receive the Canada Child Benefit
- able-bodied claimants must be seeking employment to remain eligible
Family Supplement: for low income families who receive the Canada Child Benefit
- amount based on annual net family income up to $25,921 and on the number of children in the family and their ages
- entitlement will be added to EI payment
- sickness benefits
- compassionate care
- benefits for the self-employed
- benefits for Canadians living abroad
- family caregiver benefit for children
- family caregiver benefit for adults
- fishing benefits
- 15 weeks maternity benefits
- 35 week standard parental benefits which can be shared by the two parents (children born or adopted)
- 61 weeks extended parental benefits which can be shared by both parents (children born or adopted
- for individuals without access to the Internet, or facing other barriers, a Service Canada Outreach Support Centre is available by phone at 1-877-355-2657 Mon-Fri 8:30 am to 4 pm
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Supports for learners facing barriers to post-secondary education
Services for future students include:
Services for future students include:
- one-on-one coaching
- direct referral to career clarity counseling
- participation in educational transition activities
- assistance with the college and financial application process
- ongoing support from ASPIRE AC staff, i.e., Transition to College Coach
- sponsored peer tutoring
- graduate mentoring support
- job coach services
- continued support from ASPIRE AC staff
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Services for Registered Students: Counselling Services provides the following services by professional staff:
To help in career planning, one will find information about:
- personal counselling
- educational and career counselling
- group counselling
- consultation educational and career resources
- study skills workshops.
To help in career planning, one will find information about:
- occupations
- college and university programs
- employment statistics
- résumé writing
- interview preparation
- job-hunting strategies.
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Academic Access Centre - Literacy and Basic Skills
1-800-565-4723 ext 5722613-727-4723 ext 5722
Toll Free: 1-800-565-4723 ext 5722
Office: 613-727-4723 ext 5722
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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
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Rehabilitation for the Disabled, Ottawa - Centrepointe Dr
1-877-695-7999 Office: 613-596-3463
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Programs for persons with disabilities
- vocational rehabilitation
- supported employment
- job preparation
- job coaching
- community development
- public education
- awareness of needs of persons with disabilities
- sensitivity awareness
- assistive devices program
- home and vehicle modification program
- independent living services
- outreach/attendant care
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