Ontario Puts $2.6M Toward Newcomer Job Training Projects
Courtesy of Barrie 360 and Canadian PressPublished: Jul 11th, 2023
Ottawa
Ontario is funding four training projects to help more than 300 newcomers, including displaced Afghans and Ukrainians, find jobs.
Labour Minister Monte McNaughton says the $2.6 million will help people who sacrificed so much to get to Canada support themselves and their families, while also boosting Ontario’s economy.
More than half of the funding is going to Newcomer Women’s Services Toronto to give 230 women career coaching and a paid internship.
UTIMUS, which offers employment training to newcomers, is being funded for a project to prepare 60 unemployed or underemployed Afghan and Ukrainian newcomers to work in manufacturing.
Matthew House Ottawa is set to hire and train 15 newcomers with the funding to help them find longer-term job opportunities.
Toronto Artscape Inc. is planning to help 30 Ukrainian artists looking to work in the arts industry.
Patricia is the Business Mentor and owner of Grow Vantage and a Past President of the Barrie Chamber of Commerce. She applies over 30 years of business experience (from start-up to corporate) to mentor entrepreneurs. Since 2011, she has held over 6,500 coaching and training sessions in-person and online. Through Ask For Directions Training, her entrepreneurial training program (and parent company Grow Vantage), and as a business coach, she works with start-ups who are new (or who have lost traction) to design, launch and grow their businesses. Along with 20 other expert instructors she teaches strategies in marketing, sales, communications, and finance, as well as practical techniques to increase productivity, and manage their businesses. In other words, everything entrepreneurs need to learn to grow and run their businesses successfully, and avoid the costly mistakes they can't even see coming - that lead to delays in growth and getting stuck.
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