Creating a better future for communities through research

Immigrant employment policy research projects

Facilitating Immigrant Access to Employment: Provincial Government Best Practices (2008)

Funded by the BC Internationally Trained Professional Network (BCITP Net)

         This project identified the ‘best practices’ by the provincial governments in Canada that have had the effect of facilitating greater access to professional employment by immigrant professionals. The resulting paper will enable BCITP Net to develop recommendations for their advocacy to the government of British Columbia.


Atlantic Canada Immigrant Employment Initiative (2008)

Funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) Atlantic Region

         A project to develop a logic model for the immigrant employment initiative proposed for Atlantic Canada that will clarify the initiatives’ stakeholders, proposed activities, and intended outcomes. The logic model will be useful for the future evaluation of the proposed initiative.

Towards A New Approach to Employment Supports for Immigrants (2004)

Funded by Policy Roundtable Mobilizing Professions and Trades (Council of Agencies Serving South Asians)

         A research study that analyzed the current funding environment of immigrant employment services, and provided a framework of the necessary elements of programming and associated supports required to effectively integrate immigrants with a diversity of needs into the labour market.

In the Public Interest: Immigrant Access to Regulated Professions in Today’s Ontario (2003-2004)

Funded by Policy Roundtable Mobilizing Professions and Trades (PROMPT)

         A project to develop and test a new model for occupational regulation that would increase accountabilities to internationally education persons. A number of the study recommendations found in the final report were incorporated into the provincial government’s Bill 124: The Fair Access to Regulated Professions Act.

Access to Professions and Trades: Policy Environmental Scan (2003)

Funded by Policy Roundtable Mobilizing Professions and Trades (PROMPT)

         A project to identify key governmental/nongovernmental individuals and initiatives working on access to professions and trades issues; their mandates, roles challenges and opportunities.

Dignity and Opportunity: Assessing the Economic Contribution of Foreign Trained Newcomers (1997-1998)

Atkinson Foundation and Canadian Heritage

         A research project to design a framework to compare the economic benefit of successfully using skills of foreign-trained newcomers in the Ontario labour force with the loss if such skills are not used. Skills for Change, an immigrant employment organization in Toronto, was a partner for this project.