My journey starts with figuring out the new Employment Ontario website.
That may sound like a really obvious statement, but it isn’t so obvious when you’re dealing with levels of government and government change. I want to understand the changes have happened with adult literacy training in Ontario. The Ontario Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities (MTCU) has a new website called Employment Ontario.
Didn’t Mao Tse-Tung say something like a 1000 mile journey starts with a single step? Well, my journey starts with over a thousand words in forms of documents, PDF, press releases — – a lot of stuff to sift through to figure out what direction MTCU believes literacy is walking towards….
Okay, so I’m reading the LMTDs “new organizational design doc“. The federal Tories decided to transfer federal skills training and employment money to the province, which effectively doubled the training/academic upgrading budget for MTCU. Wow, DOUBLED.
It sounds like that one stop shopping thing that was talked about a few years ago will be realized. I’m assuming this means that learners will have the opportunity to upgrade, to work with job agencies, or get involved with with an apprenticeship program. While this sounds like a wonderful thing, I can’t help wondering what it will mean for learners whose social, emotional and learning challenges push their employment goal into the far beyond?
They talk in this document about seamless delivery of services to clients — clients won’t have to understand the structure in order to receive the services. That’s certainly something that I can support wholeheartedly. Still, I know that I will need to understand the setup in order to be able to point practitioners in the right direction for getting support.
Somehow, it seems fitting to listen to an online narration of Alice falling down the rabbit hole while I try to sort this out. Stay tuned!
Flora
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