Press Release
The 2009 Ontario budget announced funding for community projects, distance learning, and workplace literacy as a key component of an economic response strategy.
This funding will help laid-off workers and other adult learners to train for more technical training and highly-skilled jobs in 2009-10 and 2010-11.
Northern Community Development Services has been awarded a contract by the Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities to deliver a new program called Workforce Literacy and Essential Skills project.
This program has been designed to enhance and expand current literacy and essential skills services to include employers, the workplace, communities, and the workforce and their particular employment, education, and training needs.
This project is intended to provide services that primarily help individuals achieve learning that supports their goals.
The NCDS Transition Centre will be open Monday to Friday year-round from 9 a.m.-9 p.m.
Community Workforce Literacy and Essential Skills training:
•is delivered in a community setting (not in a specific workplace setting);
•includes training to gain eligibility requirements for further education and training, workforce readiness, and occupational specific training and employment;
•includes the necessary wrap-around supports to ensure learning success for adult learners; and
•the target group for this project is the unemployed, laid-off workers, and under-employed individuals who wish to upgrade and improve their opportunities for better employment.
The anticipated date of opening our new centre, located at 242 Scott St., is early April.
For more information or if you have any questions, contact Cathy Emes at 274-2282.
