TABLE OF CONTENT
- Chairman's Remarks
- Executive Director's Report
- Grants Approved In 1996
- Continuing Projects 1996
- Grant Summary 1996
ANNUAL ACTIVITY REPORTS
1996 Annual Report
CHAIRMAN'S REMARKS
During 1996, The CounsellingFoundation of Canada approved grants of approximately $2.69 million to ensure the delivery of forty-one programmes and services in over 35 communities across Canada. Our major community investments continue to be made in Ontario. All of the programmes and services in receipt of grants from the Foundation promote the healthy development of individuals. This year, the 38th year of our commitment to support the development and delivery of programmes and services which enable individuals to attain their potential , was marked by the broadening of our community investments in the area of children and families at risk.
Our support of the Healthy Child Development Project, a joint project between Ryerson Polytechnic University, The Ontario Association of Family Resource Centres and five local (central Toronto) community partners will help us shape and define our future investments in this area.
1996 also marked by the 10th anniversary of the NATCON (National Consultation on Career Development) partnership between The Counselling Foundation of Canada, the University of Toronto Career Development Centre and Human Resource Development Canada. NATCON is unprecedented in providing Career Counsellors, Career Development Practitioners and Employment Counselling Professionals with an annual happening - a one of a kind experience.
Under the effective management of the staff of the University of Toronto Career Development Centre, this annual happening has evolved to be inclusive of career development in its broadest sense - encompassing all aspects of career counselling, career information and technology and employment counselling. This happening has welcomed and facilitated participation by career professionals working in college and university career centres, counsellors from primary and secondary schools, career development practitioners and employment counsellors in the corporate, government and community sectors as well as those involved in career information development and dissemination. The inclusivity and credibility that NATCON has attained is a formidable achievement.
We applaud this achievement. We recognize the high level of commitment and sheer energy this has taken because over the last year we have watched with encouragement and support the development of a new partnership between career counsellors from within educational settings, the private sector and the community sector take shape in Ontario. Overcoming barriers in jargon, antiquated concepts of jurisdiction and organizational ownership issues, the Contact Point group has successfully worked together to produce a communications and professional development tool which will foster future interaction and cooperation within the career counselling community in Canada. We are very pleased to be part of this new partnership and thank all those involved in the project for demonstrating that; professional inclusivity and consensus building works, and, it works in a timely cost effective fashion when it is driven by counselling practitioners themselves. You can find this partnership on the internet at www.contactpoint.ca.
It has been a busy year as we celebrated long standing partnerships and embarked on new initiatives. The Board, Members and Staff are committed to making 1997 as equally successful and rewarding.
On behalf of the Board of Directors,
Donald G. Lawson
Chair
