Building Capacity Together February 8, 2019 BRIDGES Forum Nadine - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Building Capacity Together February 8, 2019 BRIDGES Forum Nadine Nasir Adult Educator Toronto South Local Immigration Partnership

Agenda PART 1 Overview of Building Capacity Together project PART 2 How can we collaborate to create capacity building opportunities for staff?

What? Why? Increasing need for capacity building for service • providers working vulnerable newcomers; Goal: to enhance the capacity of service providers to better serve High demand - information is ever-changing & work • can be complex & emotionally challenging; vulnerable newcomers in Toronto. Very limited free training for service providers. • Where? When? April 2018 – March 2019 Toronto (city-wide) Funded by: Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services (Formerly Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration)

Who? East West South Toronto LOCAL IMMIGRATION North Newcomer Office PARTNERSHIPS (LIPs) (City of Toronto) Overall objective: to enhance collaboration, Multi-sectoral planning tables that bring coordination, and strategic planning at the a cross section of stakeholders together community level in order to foster more to identify ways to support the welcoming and inclusive communities as well as integration of newcomers into local improve settlement and integration outcomes. communities. FCJ REFUGEE CENTRE

How? 12 half day "train the trainer" workshops on 9 subjects  Subjects identified by service providers as training priorities  Convenient and accurate knowledge-sharing (train the trainer)  10 minute trainee presentations  Presentation, talking points & resources provided  Curriculum of training modules online  Toolkits include: full presentations, short presentations, resources,  facilitator notes, exercise descriptions, room set-up suggestions, etc. Online platform for service providers to communicate with each other  Symposium to share the project's outcomes & encourage further  capacity building

Outcomes Utilization of workshop materials is ongoing (online) • 9 toolkits on unique training subjects are available online, • including all resources and presentations. https://torontolips.wixsite.com/capacitybuilding

Outcomes Workshop participants: • increased their knowledge • developed new skills • engaged in self-reflection • applied the knowledge they learned • Broad knowledge-sharing • A model for future LIP collaboration • LIPs across the City with different member organizations and • priorities worked closely together Cross-sectoral partnership development • Expanded our networks •

Outcomes For 10 of 12 Workshops…. Number of Workshop Participants 451 500 360 450 Waitlist: 400 349 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 Target # Actual #

Outcomes For 10 of 12 Workshops…. TOTAL # Secondary Training OF PEOPLE 1067 1200 TRAINED: 1000 800 1,518 451 600 400 90 200 0 Workshop Secondary Secondary Participants Training Trainees

Outcomes For 10 of 12 Workshops…. Sector Participation 180 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 Settlement Employment City of Mental Health Other Toronto Health

Part 2 How can we collaborate to create capacity building opportunities for staff?