Skills Development and Life-long learning

Understand why you need to be committed to continuous learning and updating—an ongoing adjustment to your portfolio of skills and knowledge.

Related Web Sites

OCASI Training & Professional Development
OCASI provides training and professional development activities geared to the needs of staff, board and volunteers of member agencies and other immigrant-serving organizations.

YWCA Toronto Professional Facilitator Resources
The Professional Facilitator Resources Department is committed to improving the skills of group leaders and coaches through dynamic training and publications.

Recommended Reading

CERIS PAC Training Project "Knowledge for Action - Action for Knowledge"
This package is the product of the CERIS PAC Training Project "Knowledge for Action - Action for Knowledge". It is intended to be a resource training manual for community agencies serving immigrants and refugees.

Immigrant Settlement Counselling: A Training Guide
This resource is an attempt to describe the dimensions of settlement work and to provide tools that can be used to train workers to be effective settlement counsellors - 2000.

Immigrant Settlement Counselling: A Training Guide - Chapter 3: The Training Needs of Settlement Counsellors
This section focuses on the types of training that settlement counsellors need to do their jobs effectively.

Immigrant Settlement Counselling: A Training Guide - Introduction
This guide reflects a growing awareness over the last decade that settlement work is a profession demanding specialized expertise. This resource is an attempt to describe the dimensions of settlement work and to provide tools that can be used to train workers to be effective settlement counsellors.

Immigrant Settlement Counselling: A Training Guide - Part III: Developing the CSISW Course: A Case Example
This final part of the guide is for those who want to develop programs for settlement counsellors or other human service workers and are interested in what was learned from the experience of developing the CSISW course.

Professional Education and Training (PET) Project for ISAP and NSP Funded Settlement Workers
Individual and In-House Group training opportunities for for ISAP and NSP funded settlement workers under the OCASI Professional Education and Training (PET) project.

The EMPIRICAL Initiative
EMPIRICAL - Educational and Media Partnership on Immigration and Refugee Issues for Computer-Assisted Learning - a comprehensive academic programme on migration issues.