About the Session:

In Canada, the policy push in public career and employment services to get clients as quickly as possible into jobs and training has created a spin-cycle. People with pre-employment skills needs are moved too soon to training and/or jobs and find themselves in a costly revolving door cycling from the labour market to service over and over. In 2015, the Canadian Career Development Foundation, with the Government of New Brunswick, moved to stop the spin with an innovative program called In Motion & Momentum+.  This interactive session will explore the “now for something completely different” approach taken to revolutionize career and employment services in New Brunswick and the process of scaling this innovation across Canada to support more than 85% of people coming to service with pre-employment needs. 

Speakers Bio:-

Donnalee Bell is the Managing Director of the Canadian Career Development Foundation and co-author of In Motion and Momentum+. She has led a wide range of award-winning PanCanadian, provincial, and territorial career initiatives. Her work has been featured in Canadian media, including a CBC documentary on Generation Y. She has presented at several conferences worldwide and was honored to be the opening keynote of the Premier of Manitoba’s Skills Summit (2013). Donnalee is passionate about the career development field and works to bring its potential to the workforce development goals of governments, employers, communities, and individuals. 
 
Trina Stanford is a Project Associate with the Canadian Career Development Foundation and in the past, has worked as a passionate front-line service provider in employment and career development in both Canada and the United States. For over 14 years, she worked as an Employment Counsellor and Facilitator for people needing assistance with career decision-making, job search, and gaining access to training. She works closely with the In Motion & Momentum+ program as well as other CCDF initiatives. 

Preventing the Spin Cycle: In Motion & Momentum+

  • Wednesday July 12 2023, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM