The Prairie Centre for Excellence in Mentoring (PCFEM) Project has launched its first resource, the Employer Engagement Toolkit. For this project, CRIEC partnered with Calgary Catholic Immigration Society, an organization providing services to immigrants and refugees in Southern Alberta with a multi-disciplinary team speaking over 60 languages.
The Prairie Centre for Excellence concept was established in 1996 under a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC).
Over the lifespan of the PCFEM project, a variety of stakeholders were brought together to contribute to the final project deliverables. We thank all our stakeholders for their contribution to this innovative project.
The PNT includes Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba – as well as the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Not only is this a big project geographically, but it’s also ambitious in its scope. We know mentoring works. And there are as many shapes and forms of it as there are individuals and organizations involved in it.
Here’s what we aim to achieve with this project:
Know more about the mentoring work that is being done throughout the PNT
Strengthen our PNT mentoring network towards future tangible collaboration
Invite mentors and mentees from your program to upcoming focus group workshops.
Create a mentoring toolkit that includes perspectives from a wide variety of programs.
If you’re reading this, you’ve likely been part of “the mentoring circle” – either as a newcomer mentee, or a mentor; as a researcher or as a partner agency participating on the front lines of mentoring programs. We incorporated a research-based, collaborative design, piloting and evaluation approach to create an employer engagement toolkit to improve employer engagement strategies in mentoring programs across the PNT.
Nketti Johnston-Taylor, Executive Director
Rosanna Manaloto-Arshi, Manager of Employer Engagement
Allison Flach, Mentoring Program Supervisor
Mosope Idowu, Mentoring Program Supervisor
Susan Reckseidler, Director of Operations
Cheryl Whitelaw, Project Manager, PCFEM
Brianne Fiebelkorn, Mentorship & Employer Communications Specialist
Ben Henbest, Bamford & Henbest Research and Consulting Partners
Reke Ogbokor, Web Developer
Gordana Radan, CEO
Hasmik Asmaryan, Director of Business, Employment and Training Services
Jocelyn Davis, Research and Development Specialist
Andrea Ciurte, Corporate Outreach Liaison
Kris Ontong, Co-founder
Doug Piquette, Executive Director
Sarah Tangan, Career Mentorship Program Director (former)
Crystal Fowler, Volunteer Tutor and Mentorship Coordinator
Alida Campbell, Manager, National Connector Program
Dapo Bankole, Management Consultant
Saima Arshad, Labour Market Specialist
Sugi Vasavithasan, Senior Manager, Research and Evaluation
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