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State of Practice: Essential Skills Applications with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis in Canada

Jul 17, 2019 | Literature Review

In May 2012, the Canadian Career Development Foundation (CCDF) began a project, The State of Practice: Essential Skills Applications with First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Canada (FIMESA), that’s aim, is to: • Increase the understanding of Essential Skills...

Engendering Citizenship A Critical Feminist Analysis of Canadian Welfare-to-Work Policies and the Employment Experiences of Lone Mothers

Jul 17, 2019 | Literature Review

Like other liberal-welfare states, Canada, in a climate of balanced budgets and deficit reduction, has been active in developing policies intended to move welfare recipients into employment in order to achieve self- sufficiency. The purpose of this paper is to employ...

Peer Support Services for Individuals with Serious mental Illnesses: Assessing the Evidence

Jul 17, 2019 | Literature Review

This review assessed the level of evidence and effectiveness of peer support services delivered by individuals in recovery to those with serious mental illnesses or co-occurring mental and substance use disorders.

Generation X and the Boomers: Organizational Myths and Literary Realities

Jul 16, 2019 | Literature Review

An extensive literature search was conducted to better understand and to dispel the current stereotypes in the workplace regarding Generation X and Baby Boomers. For the purpose of the article Generation X consisted of those born between 1961 and 1981, while Baby...

Off Welfare…Now What: A Literature Review on the Impact of Provincial Welfare to Work Training Programs in Saskatchewan

Jul 16, 2019 | Literature Review

This literature review examined the knowledge base around social assistance and workplace training programs happening in Saskatchewan and as compared to the rest of Canada. While the provincial government claims that the welfare to work programs are leading to a...

Measuring Employability Skills – A Rapid Review to Inform Development of Tools for Project Evaluation

Jul 16, 2019 | Literature Review

This report summarizes a brief review of relevant literature undertaken to assess the potential for developing a new tool to support the evaluation of projects aiming to enhance young people’s ‘employability skills’: those personal, social and transferable skills seen...
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