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Friday, January 15, 2021 at 13:23:48 Eastern Standard Time
Subject: First Work Member Update - Week of January 15th, 2021
Date: Friday, January 15, 2021 at 1:22:07 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: First Work
Week of January 15th
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Contents
1. First Work Updates
SSM Monitoring
Communities of Practice – Recruitment Launching January
18th
Amplify Save the Date!
2. Youth Opportunities
Aspire + Landscape Ontario: Aspire to GROW
RBC Career Launch Program - 5PM Application Deadline!
3. Ontario Update
Expanding Eligibility for Emergency Child Care in Southern
Ontario
Ontario Declares Second Provincial Emergency to Address
COVID-19 Crisis
Ontario Temporarily Pauses Residential Evictions
Ontario Provides Funding for Autism Training
4. Federal Update: Consultation to strengthen Canadians’ online
safety
5. Member Job Postings
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First Work Updates
SSM Monitoring
First Work has been working to establish a monitoring system to
keep our members abreast of the SSM transition. Our goal is to
identify the successes, challenges and gaps in the
transformation landscape to keep our members informed of the
progress and to identify advocacy and policy solutions for the
following phases of transformation.
Over the coming weeks, First Work will be releasing our first
wave of monitoring reporting from the SSMs. All of this
information will be available via our members-only portal.
Today, we are releasing the summary report of the Overview of
the Transition Plan and Roll Out of Service Delivery Model
in Catchment Areas and the summary SSM QAs from their
participation in Futures’20. You can find these materials in our
members-only portal.
First Work is also currently establishing an SSM Monitoring
Committee.
The purpose of this group is to have ESPs in the catchment
areas meet to discuss their ongoing experiences. First Work
Members in 3 catchment areas will come together to discuss
their various successes, challenges, and gaps in the prototype
regions. Through these meetings and discussions, First Work
will provide a summary report that will also be shared as a
resource for members in the organization.
If your organization is in catchment and you would like to
participate, please reach out to info@firstwork.org with the
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Subject Line “SSM Monitoring Committee.”
Communities of Practice – Recruitment Launching
January 18th
First Work is thrilled to be launching recruitment for our upcoming
Communities of Practice!
Communities of Practice (CoPs) are groups of practitioners who
convene regularly to identify common problems in their work and
collaborate to create and trial new solutions. First Work’s
Communities of Practice for Employment Service Providers are for
providers with varied experience in Second Career, Canada-Ontario
Job Grant or Youth Job Connection or similar programs.
First Work’s CoPs for ESPs are designed to harvest knowledge from
practitioners with on-the-ground experience to create and test solutions
to increase our positive impact on Ontario’s employment landscape.
Keep an eye on our website for additional details on Monday!
Not sure what a Community of Practice is?
Join us on January 27th at 1:00pm to learn about Communities of Practice,
how CoPs operate to push forward positive change, and why the idea of CoPs
may sound familiar to First Work members.
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Register now!
Amplify Save the Date!
Mark your calendars! First Work’s professional development conference
Amplify is taking place on April 12, 2021!
Youth Opportunities
Aspire + Landscape Ontario: Aspire to GROW
First Work and Landscape Ontario are excited to announce the first
Aspire event of the year!
Is a 9-5 office job not for you? Landscape Ontario’s GROW program is
a great opportunity to get your foot in the door and explore an exciting,
hands-on career path in landscape and horticulture.
Page 4 of 9Aspire to GROW is a 3-hour career exploration event including:
an information session on Landscape Ontario’s GROW
Program, a six-week virtual training opportunity for unemployed
youth 18+,
networking breakouts with past GROW graduates and industry
professionals, and
digital career pathway exploration with Project Integrate (including
a $10 completion incentive!).
Aspire to GROW
Friday, January 22nd
1:00-4:00PM
Networking during the COVID-19 pandemic is no easy feat, so this is a
great opportunity for our youth to put themselves out there and open
doors to exciting careers!
Register for the event here.
Please feel free to reach out to Kristen Lattip, kristen@firstwork.org,
should you have any questions.
Page 5 of 9RBC Career Launch Program - 5PM Application Deadline!
RBC Career Launch is back and First Work is now accepting
applicants!
First Work is partnering with RBC again this year for an exclusive
partnership to engage youth who are not in employment, education, or
training (NEET). This partnership with First Work gives those with
additional education barriers an opportunity to participate in this one-
year paid internship program.
Candidates are required to be first screened by our member
organizations ensuring youth meet all the eligibility criteria listed below
and submit an application to First Work by January 15th at 5:00pm.
First Work will then conduct the final screening before sending
candidates forward to RBC for their application deadline of January
18th.
Please see attached for full program details and eligibility criteria.
Please note, this partnership between RBC Career Launch and First
Work is unique, and therefore the strict eligibility criteria differ from the
public recruitment for RBC Career Launch Program. If you have
candidates who do not meet the eligibility requirement above, you may
redirect those youth to apply directly for RBC Career Launch Program
through their public channels.
Ontario Update
Expanding Eligibility for Emergency Child Care in Southern
Ontario
The Ontario government will be expanding eligibility for the targeted
emergency childcare program to more frontline workers in order to help
the parents of school-aged children who may not be able to support
their child's learning/care at home because they are required to report
to work in person.
Page 6 of 9The list of new additions to the list of those eligible for Emergency Child
Care can be found here.
Ontario Declares Second Provincial Emergency to Address
COVID-19 Crisis
The Ontario government declared a second provincial emergency on
Tuesday in consultation with the Chief Medical Officer of Health.
As of Thursday, the government has issued a stay-at-home order. This
requires everyone to remain at home, limiting people’s mobility, to
reduce the number of daily contacts with those outside an immediate
household. There are exceptions for permitted purposes, however the
regulations released have not provided much clarity in the way of what
is deemed essential. Allotments to leave home include: going to the
grocery store or pharmacy, accessing health care services, for exercise
or for work, only where the work cannot be done remotely.
Public Health Units do have the authority to require workplaces to shut
down; however, the province is putting the onus on employers to
determine which staff can work remotely.
A list of the addition public health measures that are being enforced can
be found here.
Ontario Temporarily Pauses Residential Evictions
The Ontario government has issued an emergency order to temporarily
pause the enforcement of residential evictions and ensure people are
not forced to leave their homes during the provincial declaration of
emergency. This emergency order will also protect homeowners who
are facing evictions due to court orders for possession of their
properties.
Ontario Provides Funding for Autism Training
The Ontario government is providing $7.5 million to help educators
better support children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The funding will
be used to deliver online courses and training opportunities for teachers
Page 7 of 9and educational assistants in all 72 of Ontario's district school boards
starting in 2021.
In addition to online training, Ontario is investing in subsidies for
educators to take the ASD-specific Additional Qualification course, and
funding to build the capacity of school leaders to support students on
the autism spectrum.
Federal Update
Consultation to strengthen Canadians’ online safety
The Federal Government is currently undertaking consultations to
strengthen measures protecting against cyber-attacks. Botnets facilitate
some of the most damaging cyber-attacks, including ransomware and
identity theft and can cause significant harm to Canadians, businesses
and organizations that provide critical services.
Participate in the consultation by March 15th through the online form.
Member Job Postings
In the spirit of sector collaboration, particularly with our new normal, we
now will be accepting job postings from our members for internal
positions, so we can use our network to help secure your next
organizational hire. If you have a posting that you want to share with our
members, please send to info@firstwork.org with the subject line:
Member Job Posting. Please include the closing date for the application
as well.
Ontario Nonprofit Network is looking for early career policy generalist
with a gift for writing who is passionate about advocacy and public
policy development. The Policy Analyst will contribute to the
achievement of ONN’s policy agenda through research, analysis, and
writing, as well as engaging the ONN network in policy advocacy
campaigns.
Page 8 of 9campaigns.
Position: Policy Analyst
Closing date: January 27th, 2021
Ontario Association of Adult & Continuing Education School Board
Administrators (CESBA) is in search of a full-time Executive Director.
CESBA is a non-profit organization governed by a Board of Directors
which operates as a Policy Governance board. The Executive Director
is accountable to the board for the achievement of conditions
favourable to the delivery of exemplary adult and continuing education
by Ontario school boards.
Position: Executive Director
Closing date: January 31st, 2021
Do you have some important news or information about new
programs to share with our community members? We would
love to hear from you! Please email us at info@firstwork.org
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