CESBA REGIONAL MEETING West Region London March 4th, 2016 1 The - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

London March 4th, 2016

CESBA REGIONAL MEETING West Region

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1. Ongoing work related to Ontario’s Immigration Strategy

– Program Evaluation – Final Report almost ready – Recommendations will inform program direction and development of next chapter of Ontario’s Language Strategy – Some components already underway…. – Introduction of new SLT Stream and approach in 2015/16 – Immigration Programs 2015 CFP results

2. Addressing ESL/FSL waitlists

– Good news / Thank You for the work done – Looking at developing waitlist guidelines, working closely with IRCC – Making room for incoming Syrian refugees

The MCIIT Updates….

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• 3. PBLA Implementation

– Last cohort training complete, now implementing in their classrooms – Funding to support PBLA – Leads and Classroom Instructors – Additional tools being developed in HARTs – Sustainable solution moving forward

4. Ontario Curriculum Guidelines and Quartz Implementation

– Developing launch plans for Spring 2016

5. Instructor Standards

– Streamlined MCIIT PLAR – Grand-parented instructors / exception clause

• 6. Course descriptions

The MCIIT Updates….

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7. Preparing for the Syrian Refugee cohort

– Need for Literacy Level, CLB1, CLB 2 courses – Impact on other courses / enrolment – Gaps and what we can do

8. Data from Incoming Syrian Refugees

– Over 10,000 arrived in Ontario by last weekend – 48.23% are adults over 18 – Different profile between GARs and PSRs – Over 1,200 assessed as of end of January, representing 43% of incoming adults (breakdown of languages, education level in following slides) – Will be tracking very closely access to programs and services including language training

The MCIIT Updates….

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The MCIIT Updates….

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13% 9% 3% 5% 1% 3% 1% 18% 4% 0% 43%

Refugee Destination by Province

AB BC MB NB NL NS PEI QC SK YT ONTARIO

The above chart represents the total number of Syrian refugees arrived in Canada from government-flights between December 10th and February 29th, 2016; additional Syrian refugees from commercial flights since November 2015 bring the total over 25,000 in Canada as of the end of February 2016.

The MCIIT Updates….

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5% 40% 9% 10% 14% 11% 6% 5%

Refugee Destinations in Ontario

GTA (outside of Toronto) Toronto Hamilton London Ottawa Waterloo Region Windsor Other

The above chart represents the total number (over 10,000) of Syrian refugees arrived in Ontario from government-flights between December 10th and February 29th, 2016. The Other category includes all of the communities across Ontario with less than 2% of the total number of refugees arrived.

The MCIIT Updates….

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25% 37% 20% 9% 4% 5%

Syrian Refugee Breakdown by Status - Ontario

GAR Adults GAR Children PSR Adults PSR Children BVOR Adults BVOR Children

Category Total Total % GAR Adults 2,500 24.56% GAR Children 3,767 37.01% GAR Total 6,267 61.57% PSR Adults 2,011 19.76% PSR Children 971 9.54% PSR Total 2,982 29.30% BVOR Adults 398 3.91% BVOR Children 532 5.23% BVOR Total 930 9.14% Overall Total 10,179 100%

Table 3 – Adults/Children by Refugee Status - Ontario

The MCIIT Updates….

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500 1000 1500 2000 2500 GAR PSR BVOR Category

Syrian Refugee Breakdown by Age - Ontario

0 to 4 5 to 9 10 to 14 15 to 17 18 to 24 25 to 59 60+ 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 GAR PSR BVOR Category

Syrian Refugee Breakdown by Family Size - Ontario

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9+

The MCIIT Updates….

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4% 43% 36% 17%

Education Level - GAR

None Elementary (1-8) Secondary (9-12) Additional Education (13+)

16% 39% 45%

Education Level - PSR

None Elementary (1-8) Secondary (9-12) Additional Education (13+)

The above two charts and following charts in the subsequent slides represents over 1,200 Syrian refugees assessed for their English or French language skills between November 2015 and January 2016 at CLARS Centres across in Ontario

The MCIIT Updates….

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0.21% - Anuak 99.58% 0.21%- Armenian

First Language - GAR

ACHOLI ANUAK (ANAYWA) ARABIC ARMENIAN ASSYRIAN KURDISH PERSIAN/FARSI TURKISH 0.13% Acholi 0.00% 53.18% 43.50% 2.79% Assyrian 0.13% Turkish 0.13% Kurdish 0.13% Persian

First Language - PSR

ACHOLI ANUAK (ANAYWA) ARABIC ARMENIAN ASSYRIAN KURDISH PERSIAN/FARSI TURKISH

The MCIIT Updates….

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50 100 150 200 250 300 Listening Speaking Reading Writing Listening Speaking Reading Writing GAR PSR

CLB Levels at Assessment

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Ontario’s Provincial Program Eligibility

• 3. (a)

Who is a naturalized Canadian citizen, permanent resident, Convention refugee or a refugee claimant; or (b) Who is a provincial nominee, or their dependant, who has been approved through the Ontario Immigration Nominee Program but has not yet been processed to receive permanent resident status; or (c) Who is a temporary foreign worker, or their dependant, who has been approved through the Canadian Experience Class but has not yet been processed to receive permanent resident status; or (d) Who is approved as a foreign domestic worker admitted under the Live-In Caregiver program.

To be eligible for ESL or FSL training, a learner must be an adult immigrant currently residing in Ontario:

1. Whose first language is not English; 2. Who is eighteen years old or has completed his/her high school diploma and is not a day school pupil enrolled in any publicly supported day school in Ontario; and

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THANK YOU!

For additional comments / questions, please contact Mourad Mardikian at: LTU@Ontario.ca 416.327.4331

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