Workplace Essential Skills Practitioner Training
Community Adult Learning Programs (CALP) are a go-to development source for many workers who want or need to upgrade their employment skills. To build capacity for workplace essential skills development in CALP organizations and practitioners, AWES delivered four-day Workplace Essential…
Read moreYouth Empowerment Program
To support youth soon-to-be transitioning to the workforce, AWES was contracted by Piikani Employment Services to design and develop two 12-week workplace essential skills development programs for healthcare aide and construction occupations. The programs were offered through Piikani’s Training and…
Read moreBuilding Community Capacity
Community organizations are the first point of contact for thousands of immigrants in Alberta who seek employment services, support, or training and don’t have access to mainstream programs. In this project, AWES provided community organizations in seven locations throughout the…
Read moreBridge to Better Onboarding
Providing language, essential skills, and intercultural communications training early in the workplace integration process increases engagement in orientation training and onboarding and can reduce workplace disadvantages immigrants sometimes face. In Bridge to Better Onboarding, 60 immigrant workers in the food…
Read moreIntegrating the Essential Skills Tools into the Employment Counselling Process
To ensure newcomers are prepared to participate in Alberta’s dynamic labour market safely and successfully, AWES provided training workshops to 57 employment counsellors in Edmonton, Calgary, and Red Deer. Participating employment counsellors learned about the essential skills framework, received tools…
Read morePre-Welding Apprenticeship Training Pilot Project
AWES partnered with the Christian Labour Association of Canada (CLAC) to determine if a learner’s essential skills levels affect their ability to succeed in pre-apprenticeship training and if adding essential skills into training instruction will impact participant’s success in apprenticeship…
Read moreWorking Faster, Working Safer
To improve workers’ skills for the workplace, AWES created a series of materials and videos for workplace readiness and delivered 12 hours of integrated language, essential skills, and intercultural communication training to 47 CLB level 1-2 workers from five different…
Read moreMcCain’s Workplace Essential Skills Training
McCain Foods reached out to AWES for training opportunities and an organizational needs assessment. McCain’s Human Resources, supervisors, and employees contributed to the assessment, which revealed a need for targeted training in five key areas: workplace communication, document use, writing,…
Read moreEMC Manufacturing Essentials Project
As part of their initiative to help manufacturers become more competitive in the labour market and increase productivity, Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium (EMC) requested AWES to provide guidelines for developing tools to assess and measure skills’ improvement and growth in…
Read moreDigitizing Workplace Resources – Expanding Success
Newcomers often face barriers to accessing mainstream training for the workplace. AWES and Trajectory IQ Software (TIQ) digitized several essential skills, language, and intercultural resources to create Skills for Work, AWES’ first game-based training resource. Skills for Work is an…
Read moreNewcomer Trades Project
Project lead: The Government of New Brunswick Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour The Newcomer Trades project was a multi-jurisdictional project facilitated in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and New Brunswick. Newcomers interested in careers in the trades received contextualized essential skills…
Read moreDigital Skills Micro Courses
Strong digital skills are necessary for success in the workplace. To address the need for accessible digital skills development, AWES and long-time partner, Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium, released two training resources for digital literacy. Learners who take these micro courses…
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