2011-2012 Annual Report - Sto:lo Nation
2011-2012 Annual Report - Sto:lo Nation
2011-2012 Annual Report - Sto:lo Nation
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counse<strong>lo</strong>r, opened July <strong>2011</strong> and has become a very active centre for emp<strong>lo</strong>yment andtraining in the Surrey area. Surrey has the highest per capita aboriginal population in BC.3. Vocational/Trades training funded 133 individuals in training/trades program applicationsfor direct course sponsorship.4. Emp<strong>lo</strong>yment Service Assistance offices served approximately 1,190 clients.5. Community based training and programs: 369 separate contracts budget totaling$3,396,283.00.6. SASET actively creates and supports ASARET partnerships, to assist in communitytraining with Social Assistance recipients.7. Summer Student work placements are ongoing in the catchment areas with sponsorshipto positions through proposal submissions from the catchment areas.8. Training partnerships have been successful with joint funding from Health Canada: CriticalIncident Stress and Frontline Worker training (Justice Institute); Early Childhood Training(UFV) to assist BladeRunner participants move to their certificate level of training,received $262,000.9. UFCN Local 247 Training and Education Centre provided in-kind of $165,000 partneredwith funding from Industry Trades Association which has conducted a Women in Tradesintroduction to trades training, hosted at Stó:lô <strong>Nation</strong>.10. Partnered Heavy Equipment Operators course with Seabird Island, Chawathil andSASET, training through North Thompson River University on site in the community.11. $46,000 slippage from Service Canada was awarded to SASET. SASET in turn was ableto provide added group training courses in: Building Service Worker Training; GroupComputer Training for 12 participants in two separate <strong>lo</strong>cations (to be extended in the newfiscal year into other areas of the catchment area); and, Skidder and Fork lift Training.12. Metis Skills and Emp<strong>lo</strong>yment Training Culinary Program-ATEP funding sponsoredapproximately 20 participants in the pre-trades culinary program that is highly successfulin individuals continuing on in the trade and finding emp<strong>lo</strong>yment in the culinary field ofwork valued at $80,000.13. Career Deve<strong>lo</strong>pment Practitioner Training for Emp<strong>lo</strong>yment Counse<strong>lo</strong>rs in partnership withDouglas College was hosted and funded by SASET.14. Partnered funding resulted in an additional $473,000 of training dollars for our area in jointventures separate from the Service Canada ASET agreement.SASET is the only ASET agreement that holds the standard that the minimal level of trainingthat its emp<strong>lo</strong>yment counse<strong>lo</strong>rs hold is a Career Deve<strong>lo</strong>pment Practitioner Certificate. It fundsskills deve<strong>lo</strong>pment for emp<strong>lo</strong>yment workers through the catchment area in LifeSkills training,Page 27 of 64
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