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Catchment areas in Ontario’s employment services system

Market day – May 15th, 2019

Outline

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• Who is ONESTEP
• Criteria for defining catchment areas
• Comparative look at BC model
• Ontario’s proposed approach
• Considerations

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Defining catchment area criteria

• client populations/density
• nature/type of services required
• economic feasibility
• service point analysis
• labor shed/market needs analysis

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British Columbia

• 45 catchment areas
• geographic blocks based on community

health service areas

• estimated working age population:
• average: 85,966
• range: 15,376 – 242,2938
• estimated land area:
• average: 21,062 km^2
• range: 17 – 221,625 km^2
• estimated maximum annual budget*:
• average: $5.53 Million
• range: $1.46 – 13.25 Million

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Ontario

• 15 catchment areas
• geographic blocks based on economic

regions and census divisions

• estimated working age population:
• average: 735,899
• range: 187,740 – 2,294,790
• estimated land area:
• average: 65,781 km^2
• range: 634 – 582,476 km^2
• estimated maximum annual budget*:
• average: $49.51 Million
• range: $10.41 – 178.86 Million

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trina@onestep.on.ca

Considerations for Ontario