TABLE OF CONTENT

• Grants Approved In 2005
• Continuing Projects 2005
• Grant Summary 2005

CURRENT GRANTS

GRANTS APPROVED IN 2005

YEAR AND COST

Atlantic School of Theology

This is a one time grant to support the cost associated with the running of the “Project One-Applied Counselling” project. This is the inaugural project of the “Best Practices Institute” which grew out of research involving ten focus groups where it was discovered that active practitioners wanted sustained learning opportunities in specialized skill areas.

Bereaved Families of Ontario – Waterloo Region

This one time grant is given to support the cost associated with running the “Working With Children & Grief” conference held on April 15, 2005. The event focused especially on promoting effective delivery of counselling to professionals working with at-risk children and their families. Dr. J. William Worden, an author and expert on counselling children in grief was the keynote speaker and facilitator of this event which drew more than 300 professionals & volunteers.

Blake Boultbee Youth Outreach Service

The Board of Directors of The Counselling Foundation of Canada approved a one time grant to run the “Outreach, Counselling, and Life Skills Program”. This agency is in its seventeenth year of operation in a high-risk and volatile neighbourhood. Through intensive individual and family counselling and therapy, community outreach, life skills training, and crisis intervention Blake Boultbee offers options to at-risk young people and their families.

Canadian Education and Research Institute for Counselling (CERIC)

This grant is to support the cost of running various projects, promotional events and partnerships. CERIC entered the Canadian Career counselling and career development landscape in December 2001 with a mandate and focus to steward the interests and development of an increasingly changing profession. Its mission is: To encourage and provide education and research programs related to the development, analysis and assessment of the current counselling and career development theories and practices in Canada.

OAYEC, Evidence Evaluation, Toronto, Ontario

A series of grant will be paid out in 2006 to various agencies for the piloting of an evaluation process, using the Evidence model.

Fondation de l'entrepreneurship, Québec, Québec

This grant is to support the work and nationwide expansion of the “Centre de Vigie sur la Culture Entrepreneuriale” which will include a translation to be known as “Intelligence Research Centre for Entrepreneurial Culture”.

Global Vision, Ottawa, Ontario

Funding has been provided for the cost associated with the “Junior Team Canada Training Centres”. Global Vision embraces a full circle approach that incorporates all levels of the community into a viable partnership that creates a solid foundation for young Canadians to build upon. Forward-thinking businesses, government, education and community leaders have joined Global Vision to help Canadian youth gain the tools to have a competitive advantage in today's global economy. Junior Team Canada Training Centres, helps bridge the gap between the classroom and the world of work. The unique hand-on approach, through one and two-day sessions in 16 locations throughout Canada, counsels youth on developing their skills, knowledge and experience in order to secure meaningful employment. Global Vision feels that by fostering skills such as leadership, innovation and teamwork and by providing youth with opportunities to make well-informed decisions to build on their goals and future career aspirations, they can strengthen communities across Canada. The grant for $3000 is to support the cost associated with travel for the “Youth Inside” project.

Making Waves – Vague Par Vague Inc., New Brunswick

This grant provides financial support for the “Making Waves in Middle School: Phase One” Project. This project represents the agency's first undertaking with middle school populations. Through this initiative, Making Waves intends to work closely with high school students in the development and implementation of a pilot project for delivering effective dating violence prevention programs to young teens. They will build a model for older teens to be leaders, mentors and role models in the education of their younger peers.

Memorial University of Newfoundland

This grant was provided to support the cost to date associated with the publication of the “Canadian Journal of Career Development”. In 2001, The Counselling Foundation of Canada supported the establishment of the Journal to launch the first issue of the Journal in both hard copy and web based format (http://www.contactpoint.ca/cjcd). In January 2002, the first issue of the Canadian Journal of Career Development was launched at NATCON (Volume 1, No. 1, 2002). In June 2002, The Counselling Foundation of Canada provided a grant to publish two issues of the Journal (Volume 2, No. 1, 2003 & Volume3, No. 1, 2004- a special international issue representing six countries worldwide). Volume 3, No. 2, 2004 Special Issue – Welfare to Work has been published with Volume 4, No. 1, 2005 Special Issue – Welfare to Work.

Ontario Association of Youth Employment Centres (OAYEC)

This is a grant for three years to provide financial support to OAYEC with the continuation of its programming and the development of its Strategic Plan “Doing it on Purpose”.

Piapot First Nation-Saskatchewan

This is a one time grant to fund a pilot project with the Piapot First Nation Band to run in Regina. The “Parenting Skills for Families-Coaching Parents to Become Positive Role Models for Their Children” project involves 20 First Nations parents and runs Monday to Friday with a six month follow-up, primarily in participants' homes.

Read To Me! Nova Scotia Family Literacy Program

This grant was provided to support the cost or running and expanding the Read to Me! program throughout the Province of Nova Scotia. The program is aimed at all of the provinces maternity hospitals and reaching each of the 10,000 babies born in the province each year by providing books and educational resources to parents. The Read to Me! Nova Scotia Family Literacy Program is a powerful, practical and effective response to the province's high incidence of child poverty and low literacy levels. In Atlantic Canada 52% of the population have limited literacy skills or experience great difficulty reading. Low literacy skills impact negatively on education, employment, health care and quality of life.

Regent Park Community Health Centre, Toronto, Ontario

This grant was to support the “Replication of The Pathways Program model, Phase 1”. The mission of the P2E Program is to break the cycle of poverty. To achieve this mission, P2E provides an innovative blend of academic, social, financial and staff supports that at-risk, economically disadvantaged young people need in order to get to high school, stay in high school, graduate form high school and move on to post secondary programs. The P2E Program provides each Grade 9 student with a mentor, tutors as required, public transportation fare (earned through attendance at school), a student-Parent Support Worker and a post-secondary education fund of $4,000 per child. The average absenteeism rate for students has been reduced considerably and is now on par with schools in affluent neighbourhoods. By the end of the school year, a majority of the students were at or above their respective class averages for each of five core subjects. . Many communities and organizations have expressed an interest in attempting to implement the P2E Program themselves.

Sabawoon Afghan Family Education (SAFE)

This grant was given to support the cost associated with running the Tar-o-Taaza Youth Radio Project and the Youth Counsellor Project. SAFE is committed to the community and to improving the situation of Afghan youth and has partnered with the Community Resources Consultants of Toronto and the Canadian Mental Health Association for these two projects. This group of youth needs interventions that will assist them in attaining positive mental health, education and employment outcomes. SAFE hopes that he cycle of poverty that has been rampant in the Afghan community of Toronto will be broken with various interventions such as these two projects. These two projects compliment each other as the Youth Radio Project provides the education and awareness at a broad community level and the Youth Counsellor can provide the individual help and more personal interaction.

Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce

This grant was given to help establish an Entrepreneurial Mentorship Support Network and will be a replication similar to that developed in Québec by the Fondation de l'entrepreneurship. The new agency will be known as the Business Mentorship Institute and ready to launch in May 2006 with the announcement of the first pilot in the north west Saskatoon.

Scarborough Grace Hospital

This is a grant to support the cost associated with the development of a documentary production “My Different Life – An Intimate Portrait of Living with Learning Disabilities”. The Scarborough Hospital, Dr. Atilla Turgay, Chief of Staff and Director of The ADHD Child and Adult Clinic will once again team with Karen O'Donnell, Director and Producer, to create this much needed educational tool. Karen's last film, Odd Kid Out, An Intimate Portrait of Living with Attention Deficit Disorder (2002) is still receiving international success and has been credited with having changed the attitude toward this disorder in several developing countries. Karen's work focuses on social issues, medical and emotional material. Dr. Turgay appeared in the film and served as Scientific Advisor, a role that he will repeat in this new documentary.

Springtide Resources, Toronto

This grant is to provide funds to support the cost associated with implementing the “New Directions; Working Together Developing Healthy Relationships” project. Springtide Resources provides information, resources and training to families, as well as immigrant and refugee communities, educators, counsellors, secondary and post-secondary students, community groups, faith communities, housing organizations, women's shelters and disability organizations. For over twenty-five years this organization has been working directly in the community to create the effective and necessary responses, approaches and practises required to keep people safe from abuse and to reverse the devastating impact that family violence has on children.

University of Ottawa, Ottawa

This renewal grant is to provide funds to support the work of the Student Academic Success Service (SASS) and its efforts to enhance its Academic Support Community (ASC) program. SASS will implement and sustain this peer-based initiative by hiring, training and monitoring academic coaches who will provide much needed support to their fellow students.

Woodgreen Community Centre, Toronto, Ontario

This renewal grant was provided help fund the “Homeward Bound” project. This project in a unique program which seeks to assist women with children, living in shelters, make a successful transition to sustainable employment, permanent housing and independent living by providing the bridge to self-sufficiency and housing security. Homeward Bound is an innovative job readiness and employment training program focusing on the IT sector, supported by industry partners with housing and child care supports. It is expected that the provision of housing with accompanying supports will help to stabilize their lives and prepare them to move into permanent affordable housing within a two to three-year time line.

Youth Employment Services (YES), Montreal

This grant is given to assist financially in the re-structuring of the Mentorship Program with a project known as “Pay It Forward”. Over the past three years, with the help of The Counselling Foundation of Canada, YES has created over 50 mentoring matches, recruited over 60 volunteers, created a Mentorship Advisory Committee, organized 3 networking events and held 3 mentee meetings as part of its “Opening Doors For Others” mentoring initiative. With a strong framework and structure in place, Yes will now concentrate on the growth and development of this program in order to ensure its continued success and to firmly establish mentoring as an important tool in the professional development of youth. The “pay It Forward” Mentoring initiative expands the scope of the existing program by targeting youth who are at risk of not reaching their full educational, professional and/or personal development.

Youth Employment Services (YES), Montreal

This grant is to support the Quebec Employment Service Roundtable. Begun in 1997, the Roundtable has grown , through partnership building and information sharing, into a highly successful community driven vehicle that keeps each of its members informed about critical issues unique to employment service providers delivering services in English and that directly influences the practitioners and the delivery of those services. The strength of the Roundtable is its extensive network and its links to partners from various sectors including the academic, not-for-profit and business community. The Roundtable meets regularly and will plan and implement two Quebec Employment Service Providers Conferences, develop and implement four professional development seminars, develop and implement a peer to peer mentorship program.

Youth Employment Services (YES), Toronto

This grant was provided to support the cost associated with the research, development and writing of the revised “Good Job” book to be titled “Good Work” and ready for launch in early 2006. Nancy Schaefer's first book was published in 2000 will be expanded to almost twice the size and include updated information, such as tips for Internet job searching and specific information on how to start a business.

Youth Opportunity Unlimited, London

This grant is given to fund the “Market Quality Preserves” project. This unique project is offering a variety of employability skills training targeted to high risk youth. What makes the project unique is the fact that it operates as a social enterprise; creating and selling high quality preserves, salsas, BBQ sauces and related products. Youth are trained by a chef and are taught all aspects of product preparation and presentation. Skills training include team work, communications, customer service, quality assurance, numeracy skills, safe food handling, WHMIS, Service Excellence, and First Aid.

Youthlink, Toronto

This grant is given to support the cost associated with a partnership between Youthlink and Centennial College on a project, “Youth – Towards a Promising Future”, targeted at 17-24 year old youth in Scarborough. Through the provision of community outreach and counselling services as well as in-class supports, these young people will be engaged in a process of academic upgrading which will prepare them for skills development training courses, post secondary programs and employment.

YWCA of Greater Toronto

This grant is to support the cost associated with the development of the “YWCA Girls Centre. The Centre will be targeted to disadvantaged girls ages 10-18 - Girls facing an increasing number of issues that are critical to their positive development, social status, income, culture, sexuality, violence, peer pressure, education, media and health. The YWCA of Greater Toronto has made a strong commitment to a strategic plan to increase much-needed services to girls to enhance their positive development. The “YWCA Girls Centre” will initially locate at the Family Support Centre in Scarborough but program models will be developed that can be offered in other YWCA locations and in other community organizations serving youth.

YWCA Muskoka

This multi-year grant is given to support the cost of implementing a three year operational plan, developed last year, for the Community YWCA of Muskoka. Muskoka is home to the youngest YWCA in Canada, with a commitment to improving the status of women, and working for responsible social and economic change. The organization was founded to provide programs that fill identified gaps in services for women, girls and families at risk, socially or economically. They offer services throughout Muskoka, often taking programs and opportunities to people versus people to program, a more effective delivery model in rural areas.

YWCA of Peterborough, Victoria & Haliburton

This is a grant to support the cost of an initiative known as the “Staff Training Project”. The YWCA of Peterborough, Victoria and Haliburton exists to support the rights of all women and their families to live free from violence, poverty and oppression. Recent internal complaint investigation revealed a disheartening picture of an authoritarian, rule-based approach to service delivery. The agency has recognized that a multi-level approach was needed to galvanize a renewal plan to deal with this service delivery problem. The renewal plan includes initial conflict mediation, a vision for empowering service delivery, and training to enhance counselling skills and team accountability. Clinical consultation and coaching of supervisors will follow over a period of ten months to consolidate learning and measure skill development.