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Institutional Accountability Plan and Report 2011/12Health and Human Service ProgramsAs the demand for Health and Human Service programs continues to outpace available resources,North Island College has been responding to community demand by adding new intakes for fullysubscribed, waitlisted programs, particularly in programs of a year or less in duration.In 2011/12, NIC provided a Health Care Assistant (HCA) program for Homalco First Nations studentsin Campbell River under a contract with the First Nations Employment Society. Delivery of this intakewas structured to allow needed time for students to meet the program’s prerequisite educationrequirements. Additionally, the start date for the Practical Nursing Access (PNA) program in the MountWaddington region, funded by the Ministry with one-time funding for short health programs, was movedforward to March 2011 in order to ensure adequate student numbers. This program was offered over12 months and was designed to enable individuals to continue to work part-time as Health CareAssistants while upgrading to Practical Nursing. This model of delivery enabled the College to meet theneed for Practical Nursing graduates in that region while ensuring continued availability of HCA workersduring the length of the PNA program. Students graduating from this program will have a profound,positive impact on health care delivery in the Mount Waddington region.Based on extensive waitlists, another cohort of the evening intake of the Practical Nursing program wasoffered at the Comox Valley campus in winter of 2011, providing space for 20 more students in additionto the regular daytime streams offered at Port Alberni and Campbell River. These students completed inFebruary 2012. Our Practical Nursing program in Campbell River is completing a cohort of the former(certificate program) curriculum in August 2012 and will begin the new provincially mandated diplomacurriculum in September 2012 to be offered over two years. The new Practical Nursing curriculum wasoffered in January 2012 following completion of the former curriculum in December 2011. In order tosynchronize offerings between Campbell River and Port Alberni, this program is being offered in acondensed format over 1.5 years and, in September 2013 Port Alberni will offer the program over twoyears. This will ensure a viable program in both regions with alternating years of entry and graduationacross the two communities. Our program has been reviewed by the College of Licensed PracticalNurses of BC and has been granted Phase I recognition. NIC’s Bachelor of Science in Nursing programcontinues to be in high demand.NIC’s Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programs have been fully subscribed in Port Alberniand Comox Valley in 2011/12; in addition, based on demand from non-credentialed child care workersand their employers in Campbell River, we have been offering a part-time evening program. As well, torespond to continued demand in the Mount Waddington region, we have offered two fully subscribedECCE courses which lead to an “Assistant Status” with the British Columbia Early Childhood EducatorRegistry. Many of these students are committed to continuing their certification and will be admitted toa part-time program in fall 2012. A blended design of our part-time ECCE Diploma with continuousentry has been highly successful in reaching learners across four campuses and has facilitatedrecruitment and retention of students. The three-year cycle for this program ends in June 2012 and anew cycle will being in September 2012.NIC has restructured the Human Services/Social Service stream in order to better respond to employerentry level requirements and ensure a better transition to the Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) Degree.A Social Service Diploma, replacing the Social Service Certificate program, was developed with a dual26
Institutional Accountability Plan and Report 2011/12pathway to a BSW. The response to this re-structuring of the program has resulted in a significantwaitlist for the diploma and students who then choose the university transfer path to the BSW. OurEducation Assistant/Community Service Worker streams in Comox Valley and Port Alberni continue tobe well subscribed.Trades and Technology TrainingNorth Island College offers a broad mix of trades & technology programming, which included expandingour apprenticeship offerings in Carpentry in 2011/12. With our first full year in the new SkillsDevelopment and Trades Training Facility at the Comox Valley campus we were able to expand ourCarpentry Apprenticeship training to seven intakes with a total of 99 apprentices enrolled. Additionally,working with NIC’s Continuing Education and Training Division and the Developmental Department,funded via the Employment Skills Access Program, we were able to develop and start our firstCarpentry Access program in January at Fort Rupert. Combining contextual upgrading with tradestraining has proven to be a successful model to bridge many individuals into trades training.We were pleased to receive confirmation of funding in 2011/12 for a new teaching kitchen in PortAlberni. It has been exciting watching this new facility evolve through concept and design, withconstruction having begun in January 2012. We expect to take occupancy of the building in early August,with our first intake of Professional Cooks in September 2012. This facility provides an opportunity tore-examine how we can best meet the specific needs of communities and hospitality businessesthroughout this region. Early in the new fiscal year, we will arrange an advisory committee to refine ourprogramming. New courses in Aboriginal cooking applying local First Nations knowledge in preparingfoods with historic and cultural significance in the Alberni Valley and West Coast regions are planned.In response to demand for Professional Cook apprentices to complete their training, we offered ourfirst intake of Professional Cook 3 at the Campbell River campus in 2011/12, where we saw graduatessuccessfully complete their Interprovincial (Red Seal) examination. This represents a significantmilestone for NIC as it is the first time that Professional Cooks were able to complete their trainingwithout having to go out of region.While the aerospace industry is experiencing increased demand for Aircraft Structures Technicians,both licensed and non-licensed, we are seeing a reduction in training capacity in Western Canada, withboth NAIT and BCIT suspending their programs. To provide training for non-licensed technicians wehave developed an Aircraft Sheet Metal program for those individuals desiring to working primarily inthe area of aircraft manufacturing; we are offering the first intake of this program in September 2012.In response to industry developments, North Island College has partnered with Camosun College, BCITand Vancouver Island University to contract development of an entry level program for the ship buildingindustry. This was in direct response to a request for proposal from the Resource Training Organizationto support the forthcoming training requirements on this coast, resulting from regional industries’ awardof a federal ship building contract. NIC is also very pleased to have developed a partnership with SchoolDistrict 85 (Port Hardy), to enable us to develop a facility to offer trades training at the Fort RupertElementary School.27
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