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Title: THE PEEL BUSINESS EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP


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Peel Industry Education Partnership is.
  • A vision for the future
  • A council under development
  • A community development project

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Background
  • There is a lack of awareness of existing business
    and education partnering activities and resources
  • There are diverse needs and gaps in service
    creating new opportunities for additional
    partnership initiatives
  • Peel Region does not have a partnership council
    to support, promote, develop and implement
    business and education partnering activities

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PEELS FUTURE WORKFORCE Peels population is
growing rapidly and so is the demand for a
prepared and skilled workforce
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OUR GOALS
  • To involve the community, examine best practices,
    and encourage the development of a sustainable
    partnership in Peel among
  • industry and business
  • education and training providers
  • employment-related services

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SUPPORTERS
  • This Employment Ontario project is funded in
    part by the Government of Canada

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THE PROJECT
  • A Region-Wide Initiative to Explore and Develop
    a Sustainable Partnership
  • A Job Creation Partnership Project involving a
    part-time manager and a team of 4 participants
  • Consultation assistance from the Ontario
    Business Education Partnership
  • Located at the Centre for Education Training

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Accomplishments
  • 3 surveys, over 100 responses
  • A website and marketing tools
  • Over 20 consultation interviews
  • 6 focus group sessions with 75 stakeholders
  • Launch event co-ordinated
  • 4 participants employed!

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SURVEY RESULTSBusiness/IndustryEducation/Traini
ngEmployment-Related Services
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A great need for career awareness!
  • 50 of educators indicate learners are not aware
    of the full range of job opportunities available
  • 70 of employers say job seekers are not aware of
    the range of jobs available in their companies
  • 97 of service providers indicate that job
    seekers have limited awareness of jobs available

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Career Awareness most needed by Youth and
Immigrants
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Limited Learner Demand
  • Programs that need increased promotion
    partnerships
  • Co-operative education
  • Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program
  • Career studies, job search workshops
  • Building construction, carpentry
  • Manufacturing, some technologies manufacturing
    management
  • Early childhood education

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Gap Between Education Choices Employment
  • Considerable demand for programs in music,
    theatre, and animation but limited local job
    opportunities in these areas
  • Students are interested in co-op/work placements
    in day care, auto repair, electrician, plumber,
    refrigeration law clerk but there seem to be
    limited job/apprenticeship opportunities in these
    areas after graduation

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Barriers to Completing Education/Training
  • 80 of educators indicate the need for regular
    income as the most frequent reason that students
    do not complete education/training
  • Other important reasons for leaving a program
    include difficulty adhering to school/program
    policies and procedures, lack of interest, and
    inability to keep up

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Barriers to Education/Career Planning
  • 78 of service providers listed finding financial
    resources as clients greatest challenge in
    pursuing education/training
  • Clients are also challenged in identifying work
    or career goals and in implementing their plan of
    action

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Apprenticeship Issues
  • 67 of educators responded that learners found it
    difficult to find an employer for an
    apprenticeship opportunity
  • Other barriers included intimidating
    paperwork/record keeping, finding information,
    intimidating or challenging curriculum, and
    difficulty identifying a field to pursue

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Reasons for Graduates Difficulty Finding
Employment
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Employers Recruitment Challenges
  • 50 of employers indicated difficulty
    recruiting qualified people this included a
    wide range of positions in varied industries
  • Unskilled
  • Semi-skilled
  • Skilled
  • Management
  • Professionals

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Top 5 Skills Missing Among New Employees
  • Computer skills
  • Effective document use
  • Continuous learning skills
  • Thinking skills
  • Oral communication

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Human Resource Issues of Greatest Concern
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Educations Role in Workforce Development
  • Business Suggests
  • Provide more experiential learning opportunities
  • Enhance career awareness guidance
  • Incorporate practical knowledge skills
  • Develop learners soft skills
  • Teach more English, math computer skills
  • Education suggests
  • Pre-apprenticeship training
  • Greater quantity and variety of co-op and work
    placement opportunities
  • Guest speaker events
  • Mentoring programs/services
  • Other suggestions

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Businesss Role in Workforce Development
  • Business suggests
  • Career events guest presentations
  • Work placements and co-op
  • Contributing in an advisory role
  • A variety of other suggestions including
    mentoring and other ideas
  • Educators suggest
  • Provide career information on their industries
  • Co-ops and work placements
  • Apprenticeships
  • Curriculum advice/Advisory role
  • Financial assistance to education/students
  • Hire graduates
  • Provide opportunities for at-risk students/youth

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Interest in Partnership Development is
Considerable!
  • Receiving more information service
    providers/educators
  • Encouraging others involvement -
    educators/service providers
  • Actively contributing (, time, inkind)
    business/educators

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Existing Partnership Activities
  • There are many education and employment-related
    service providers that offer learning career
    development opportunities in connection with
    business
  • There is a lack of awareness of many of these
    services and how to access them

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Focus Group and Further Survey Results
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What can a business education partnership
provide?
  • Help the community to plan for change be
    proactive keep a vibrant business community and
    retain the workforce we need
  • Provide a forum for working together to solve
    local challenges work together on common goals
  • Create and disseminate an inventory of services
    and opportunities
  • Inform educators of business trends
    expectations
  • Inform business industry of education issues
    and services
  • Promote a wider variety of occupations and
    industries
  • Offer more practical job experience opportunities
  • Help youth get on the right track and get the
    right skills
  • And more

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Who needs to be involved?
  • Business/employers all sizes and industries
  • Industry and professional associations, sector
    councils
  • Boards of Trade/Chamber of Commerce
  • Unions and union training institutions
  • Governments Region, Cities, Town, federal,
    provincial
  • Politicians
  • Educators/Trainers school boards, colleges,
    university, career colleges, school councils,
    teachers, guidance, co-op, trustees
  • Employment Service Providers - many
  • Youth, at-risk youth, students, student
    councils/assoc., clubs,
  • Parents, youth advisors role models
  • A variety of client groups career
    transition/experienced workers,
    immigrants/newcomers, persons with disabilities,
    etc.
  • Media
  • Other community leaders, service clubs, cultural
    and religious organizations

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How can we encourage participation?
  • Be clear about goals, expectations, structure
  • Have a plan and productive meetings
  • Provide effective, ongoing communication
  • Use best practices learn from others
  • Demonstrate and communicate the outcomes and
    benefits
  • Create mutually-beneficial opportunities
  • Have champions contact others
  • Incentives, recognition, rewards
  • Celebrate, and build on, success

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What advice do you have for us?
  • Keep an open mind be innovative
  • Be persistent dont give up
  • Follow-up, communicate and network
  • Use effective marketing strategies create a
    distinct identity
  • Work with existing partners and avoid duplication
  • Get the right people on board and stay focused on
    agreed goals
  • Involve all stakeholders including
    beneficiaries
  • Secure stable funding, space and staff
  • Keep it enjoyable and productive

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Key Areas of Need
  • Coordinating and sharing information
  • Developing career awareness
  • Promoting and building on experiential learning
  • Working together to further develop essential
    skills/attributes for the workplace
  • Addressing the needs of disadvantaged groups
  • Working in partnership with other organizations
    to implement new projects

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Conclusions
  • There is overwhelming support from all
    stakeholder groups that a coordinated partnership
    effort will be valuable in Peel
  • There are many issues to address and
    opportunities to pursue
  • Lets get started!

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Acknowledgements
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Our thanks to
  • Service Canada
  • Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
  • Centre for Education Training
  • Ontario Business Education Partnership
  • Our graphic design company Burn Media Inc.
  • Our focus group hosts Peel District School
    Board, Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School
    Board, Caledon Chamber of Commerce and Sun Life
    Financial
  • Our focus group speakers Terry Murphy of
    Landscape Ontario, and John Ayling
  • Our speakers today
  • And all the interested stakeholders who took the
    time

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Our Team
  • Present
  • Marlene Evangelista
  • James Qian
  • Paul Damsma
  • Past
  • Greg Summers
  • Roxanne Challenger
  • Udayan Bhatt
  • Judith Matani
  • Hema Kukreja
  • Greg Metrakos

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CONTACT US
  • Phone (905) 949-0049
  • Manager Karen McNeil ext. 2401
  • Business Education Liaison Officers
    Marlene Evangelista, ext. 3008
  • James Qian, ext. 3006
  • Paul Damsma, ext. 3007
  • Email peelpartnership_at_tcet.com
  • Website ww.tcet.com/peelpartnership

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Industry Education Partnerships
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What is it?
  • There is no one answer to this question but
    there are common characteristics. Most business
    education councils share three important
    characteristics found in strong collaborative
    organizations
  • inclusive, broad-based membership
  • shared leadership
  • stable source of funding

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Other characteristics
  • A group of concerned people from education,
    government, business and labour come together for
    a common cause of helping to support and improve
    education in their community
  • Formal, not for profit status
  • High ranking representation the members of the
    council are movers and shakers from key sectors
    of the community brought together to facilitate
    change
  • Local focus each council develops and executes
    programs services and special events to meet the
    needs of their local community. There is no
    cookie cutter approach

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Why are they effective?
  • Expand what is possible in the area of
    community-school collaboration
  • Provide a collective response to the evidence
    that suggests that our schools benefit by
    utilizing community resources
  • Pool energies and create a unified voice and can
    help identify and eliminate duplication of
    services
  • They are a proven means to make sure that
    education is a top priority in the community
  • Mechanism to generate youth employment and
    community prosperity
  • Vehicle to help educators and employers cross
    traditional barriers (real and perceived)

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Industry Education Partnerships
  • Business Education Council of Niagara (BECON)
  • Industry Education Council Hamilton (IEC
    Hamilton)
  • Halton Industry Education Council (HIEC)
  • Foundation for Enriching Education (Huron, Perth)
  • Career Education Council (Guelph, Wellington,
    Dufferin)
  • Business Education Partnership of Waterloo
  • The Learning Partnership (Toronto)
  • Kingston Employment Services (KEYS)
  • Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI)
  • South Western Ontario Industry Education Council
    (SWOIEC - Windsor)
  • Plus one under development in York Region

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Purpose
  • Bring business, education and industry together
    to address local workforce development issues and
    needs and identify solutions for that community

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Possible Activities
  • Small business advisory services
  • Apprenticeship awareness
  • Job Fairs
  • Career Exploration programs
  • Mentoring programs
  • Mayor/partners breakfasts
  • Job Finders Club
  • Conferences
  • Awards
  • Skilled Trade events
  • Research

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Typical partners
  • Business and industry
  • School boards
  • Community colleges
  • Universities
  • Private schools
  • Municipalities
  • Adult education providers
  • Employment Services organizations
  • Training Boards
  • Service clubs
  • Chamber of Commerce/Board of Trade
  • Professional organizations
  • Unions

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OCRI
  • By building educational and community
    alliances, our community gains a competitive
    economic development advantage. This is also a
    key contributor to Ottawas success

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IEC Hamilton
  • Helping ensure Hamilton has the competencies to
    compete as a community of choice.

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Halton Industry Education Council
  • As our society changes, the need for a skilled
    and educated workforce is increasing at a rapid
    rate. HIEC works to forge new bridges between the
    community and Halton's industrial, educational,
    and business sectors for their mutual benefit.

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Benefits
  • Identifying talent in each community realizing
    that retaining such talent is increasingly
    important in building a sound economic foundation
  • identifying, enhancing, promoting and sharing
    best practices
  • working closely with educators in improving the
    delivery of community-based programs that prepare
    students and youth for the workforce and life
  • enhancing the provision of school-work programs
  • mobilizing teachers federations, faculties of
    education and members of the business community
    to implement professional development
    opportunities in support of publicly-funded
    education

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Models
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Community based
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What does it take?
  • Hard work over time
  • Patience
  • Discipline
  • Money
  • Commitment
  • Follow through
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